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Enjoy it on video: Candlelit Carols at York Minster
A SPELLBINDING evening of song and festive music in a splendid venue - the Chapter House Choir performs Carols by Candlelight in York Minster.
Directed by Stephen Williams, the director of music at Uppingham School, and with David Pipe on the organ, the Chapter House Choir performed three nights of Christmas music, including some beautiful handbell playing.
Beginning with an atmospheric sung procession into the Chapter House under candelight, the choir here sings I Saw Three Ships, Away in a Manger and In the Bleak Mid-winter, along with lesser known but no less evocative festive music.
So why not sit back, marvel at the Chapter House's beautiful architecture and enjoy this selection from the programme:
Processional: Advent Antiphons
Choir: Resonet in Laudibus - Gallus
Rocking - arr Higginbottom
In the Bleak Mid-winter
(Anna Goldbeck-Wood, John Gill) - arr Darke
Organ: Adagio in C, KV356 - Mozart
Choir: I Saw Three Ships
(Sam Grainger, Sue Lindley,
Ruth McConnell) - arr O'Donnell
Away in a Manger - arr Moore
Handbells: O Come, O Come Emmanuel - arr John Hastie
For more information about the Chapter House Choir click here.
A Yorkshire Post film by Jonathan Walton
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