Engagements

Spotless Rose - St John’s Smith Square, London

A Spotless Rose:

Sunday 18 December, 5pm

St John’s Smith Square, London

A Christmas concert from the

 Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

 Graham Ross, conductor

 Samuel Jones & Daniel Blaze, organ

A beautiful seasonal programme, with works from Praetorius and Mendelssohn to Howells and Cecilia McDowall, including some exquisite arrangements of traditional carols, and a selection of festive favourites that herald the season of Advent and the joy of the Christmas story.

TICKETS: https://www.sjss.org.uk/events/choir-clare-college-cambridge

A Spotless Rose - Holy Trinity, Long Melford, Suffolk

A Spotless Rose:

Friday 9 December, 7.30pm

Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk

https://www.longmelfordchurch.com

A Christmas concert from the

 Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

 Graham Ross, conductor

 Samuel Jones & Daniel Blaze, organ

A beautiful seasonal programme, with works from Praetorius and Mendelssohn to Howells and Cecilia McDowall, including some exquisite arrangements of traditional carols, and a selection of festive favourites that herald the season of Advent and the joy of the Christmas story.

J S Bach’s Christmas Oratorio:

J S Bach’s Christmas Oratorio: Parts 1, 2, 3 and 6

Saturday 3 December 2022, 7.30pm

Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

With Mary Bevan, Iestyn Davies, James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Graham Ross & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Clare College Choir are delighted to present Parts 1, 2, 3 and 6 of J S Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Designated by Alfred Dürr as one of the pinnacles of world musical literature, Bach's Christmas Oratorio was composed for the Christmas church festival at Leipzig in 1734.  This included not only Christmas Day and the two following days, but also the Feast of the Circumcision, the Sunday after New Year and the Feast of the Epiphany.  Thus it spread over into the New Year of 1735.  Although Bach performed the Christmas Oratorio in six separate parts, it nevertheless forms a complete and unified work.  

TICKETS: Christmas Oratorio (adcticketing.com) | 01223 300085 | boxoffice@adctheatre.com 

Concert at Southend Christian Fellowship, The Plaza Centre, Southend on Sea

Southend Christian Fellowship, The Plaza Centre, Southend on Sea
Friday 24 June 2022, 8pm

TICKETS: Concert Series – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor

ATLANTIC EXCHANGE: Anglo-American a cappella choral

Robert Wylkynson (c. 1450–1515, UK) Jesus autem transiens

Samuel Barber (1910–81, USA) Twelfth Night
Samuel Barber To be sung on the water

William Byrd (c. 1539/40–1623, UK) Civitas sancti tui 
Kile Smith (1956–, USA) Jerusalem

Henry Purcell (1659–95, UK) Hear my prayer, O Lord
Caroline Shaw (1982–, USA) and the swallow
Sarah Cattley (1995–, UK) O Western Wind… An anniversary

Eric Whitacre (1970–, USA) Leonardo dreams of his flying machine 

- interval -

Judith Weir (1954–, UK) a blue true dream of sky
Trad. arr. Norman Luboff (1917–87, USA) Deep river

James MacMillan (1959–, UK) The gallant weaver 
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918, UK) Crossing the bar

Trad. American arr. James Erb (1926–2014, USA) Shenandoah

Nico Muhly (1981–, USA) A Great Stone
Herbert Howells (1892–1983, UK) Take him, earth, for cherishing