Music for Advent and Christmas, particularly as seen through the eyes of the Shepherds, featuring Palestrina, Leighton, Dove, McDowall, Chilcott and more. With the first performances of two Micklegate Singers commissions: The Road of Evening composed by James Else, and Joe Bates’ Absence.

Palestrina: Rorate Coeli

Lassus: Quem vidistis, pastores?

Chilcott: The Shepherds’ Carol

Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love

Richard Dering: Quem vidistis, pastores?

Jonathan Dove: Welcome all wonders in one sight

David Bednall: BC:AD - This was the Moment

Alexander L’Estrange: Epiphany Carol

Cecilia McDowall: Now may we singen

Kenneth Leighton: A Hymn of the Nativity

Joe Bates: Absence

James Else: The Road of Evening

Francis Poulenc: Quem vidistis, pastores?

Richard Rodney Bennett: Gloria, Gloria