Sunday 15^th December 2024

3.00 pm

Runtime: 120 minutes

Colyer-Fergusson Hall

The Gulbenkian Arts Centre

University of Kent

[We regret that Passamezzo "Old Christmas Returned" has been postponed for medical reasons until 2025]

“LES ROIS MAGES”

“JOURNEY OF THE MAGI”

Alexander Rider, harp &

The Festive Chorale

director Grenville Hancox

 PROGRAMME

“Harp music and accompanying words in a programme chosen to evoke the grandeur of  the plains of central Asia and from thence the Journey of the Magi, and angelic voices in a star-littered sky”

Music for solo harp

C. Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Fantaisie Op. 95

Marcel Tournier (1879-1951) "Au seuil du  Temple" ("At the Threshold of the Temple") from "Images Suite No. 1"

A. Khachaturian (1903-1978) "Danse Orientale"

P. Hersant (b.1949) "Bamyan"

Marcel Samuel Rousseau (1882-1955)  "Variations pastorales sur un vieux Noël" 

— INTERVAL — 

Lauren Scott (b.1971) "Flight of the angel (behind the mask)" 

Music for chorale and harp

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) "A Ceremony of Carols"

Tickets from

Gulbenkian Box Office

Live Attendance: £25

25s and under: FREE

PROGRAMME NOTES