Carols and Carillons in Dunblane Cathedral
Posted on December 14, 2008
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Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers www.dunblanecathedral.org.uk will
present their annual Christmas Entertainment, Carols and Carillons in
Dunblane Cathedral, at 7.30pm on Sunday 14 December at 7.30pm. This very
popular event will this year feature guest choral group Stirling City Choir
www.stirlingcitychoir.org.uk. This well-established choir with 75 singers
will perform seasonal choral pieces by Palestrina, John Rutter, Morten
Lauridsen, Peter Warlock and Bruckner. All of Dunblane Cathedral’s 3
children’s and 2 adult handbell groups, 50 ringers in total, will perform
Christmas music from through the ages from traditional Scottish carols to
popular French, German and American Christmas melodies. There will also be
much audience participation with a chance to join in singing several
well-known carols led by the choir, brass, strings, woodwind, keyboards,
handbells and percussion.
Music performed will be:
P5 Handbell group (9-year-olds)
BRING A TORCH JEANETTE ISABELLA – 16th century French carol arranged by
Martha Lynn Thompson.
O COME, LITTLE CHILDREN by Johann A P Shulz arranged by Charles Maggs
P6-7 Handbell group (10-12 year-olds)
THE FRIENDLY BEASTS – 12th century French melody arranged by Carl Wiltse
WE THREE KINGS OF ORIENT ARE by John Henry Hopkins arranged by Martha Lynn
Thompson.
S1-S6 handbell group (13-17-year-olds)
AS LATELY WE WATCHED – Austrian carol arranged by Barbara B Kinyon
LITTLE DRUMMER BOY – by Katherine K Davis arranged by Douglas E Wagner
Leighton handbell group
QUELLE EST CETTE ODEUR – French carol arranged by David Barker
CORO - Handel arranged by John Mitchell
Chisholm handbell group
BALOO LAMMY – Scottish carol arranged by Malcolm C Wilson.
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN – African-American spiritual arranged by Susan E Geschke
STIRLING CITY CHOIR
HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST – anon
HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
THE CANDLELIGHT CAROL by John Rutter
O NATA LUX FROM LUX AETERNA by Morten Lauridsen
BETHLEHEM DOWN by Peter Warlock
LOCUS ISTE by Anton Bruckner
Combined choir, handbells, instrumentalists and audience:
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL by John F Wade, arranged by Nicholas Hare.
THE FIRST NOWELL English traditional carol, arrangement by Nicholas Hare.
AWAY IN A MANGER Cradle Song melody by William James Kilpatrick, 1838-1921, from Around the World with Christmas, 1895, arrangement by Nicholas Hare.
SILENT NIGHT words by Joseph Mohr, 1792-1848, melody by Franz Gruber,
1787-1863 arranged by David Barker.
HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING words by Charles Wesley (1707-88) melody in
Mendelssohn’s Festgesang, 1840, arranged by Nicholas Hare.
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! arranged by Nicholas
Hare.
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