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Christmas at St Stephen’s 2023

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Join us on Saturday, 2nd December at Stephen’s Church, Lansdown Road, Bath for a joyful evening of beautiful music as we welcome the festive season with open hearts. Get ready to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year in style! 🎅🎶

Programme:

O Radiant Dawn

O Magnum Mysterium

Sure on the Shining Night

Reading

St Stephen’s Primary Church School

Ave Maria

The Snow

Shepherd’s Pipe Carol

Away in a Manger – with school

Interval

The 12 days After Christmas

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Reading

St Stephen’s Primary Church School

Congregational Carols:

Once in Royal David’s City

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

10th Birthday Concert

Including some of our favourites performed over the last 10 years:

CitySound Voices
Verdi: Nabucco – Va, pensiero
Bruckner: Locus iste
Viadana: Exultate justi
KES Senior Singers
Vaughan Williams: O taste and see
KES 24
Vautor: Sweet Suffolk Owl
Morley: I love, alas, I love thee
CitySound Voices
Stopford: Do no be afraid
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Lauridsen: Sure on this shining night
INTERVAL
CitySound Voices
Shenandoah
Billy Joel: The longest time
KES Senior Singers
Danoff, Nivert and Denver arr. Cassey: Take me home, country roads
Cronin arr. Gilpin: Can’t fight this feeling
The Greatest Showman: This is me
KES 24
Dolly Parton arr. Mark Brymer: Jolene
Axel, Vaccarino and Campbell arr. Langford: Say something
Germotta and Tucker arr. Huff: Hold my hand
CitySound Voices
Africa
Les Misérables medley

Christmas Fantasia at St Stephen’s 2022

Join CitySound Voices for a Christmas Concert in St Stephen’s Church, Lansdown, Bath on Saturday 17th December at 7.30 for Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams, jazz arrangements of carols by Will Todd and other festive music familiar and less familiar.
This year the choir will be accompanied by members of the Cardiff Chamber Orchestra, on the piano by Peter French along with soloist baritone, Alexander Learmonth. All conducted by our new Musical Director, Will Stevens.
CItySound Voices will also be joined by The Harmonics all-female combo from Corsham.

Programme to include:

Tavener: O, do not move
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Traditional arr. Wilcocks: Quelle est cette odeur agreable?
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
INTERVAL
Todd: Personet hodie
Todd: In the bleak midwinter
Todd: We three Kings
Traditional arr. Vaughan Williams: O little town of Bethlehem
Mendelssohn: Hark! The herald-angels sing

Lunchtime at St Michael’s

Saturday 21st May 2022, 1pm.

Free concert By CitySound Voices conducted by Jon Rawles and featuring mezzo soprano Sarah Baillie in a performance of:

Feel the Spirit by John Rutter.

At St Michael’s Without, Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ

Spring Thyme with CitySound Voices

Christmas 2021 with CitySound Voices

All – O come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade Arr, Willcocks)

CitySound Voices & Katy Thomson – On Christmas Night (Bob Chilcott)

The Harmonics – Do You Hear What I Hear
– Jazzy Jingle Bell Rock

CitySound Voices & Katy Thomson – O Holy Night

INTERVAL

CitySound Voices – The Snow (Edwatd Elgar)
– The Holly And The Ivy (Ola Gjeilo)
– Deck The Hall (Trad. Arr. Willcocks)
– Jingle Bells (J Pierpont Arr. Willcocks)
– The Twelve Days Of Christmas (Trad. Arr. Rutter)

The Harmonics – It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
– Sleigh Ride
– Christmas Lullaby

Katy Thomson – Nella Fantasia
– A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehman)
– The Twelve Days After Christmas (Frederick Silver)

All – Hark! the herald angels sing

CitySound Voices – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Martin & Blane Arr. Peter Gritton)