CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT 2025

AVE MUTTER KÜNIGINNE

Carols, Chants, Choruses &

Contemporary Christmas Songs

19:30 (7:30pm) Tuesday 23 December 2025

Exeter College Chapel, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DP

PROGRAMME

Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376–1445): Ave Mutter Küniginne [Introit]

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707): Præludium in A [Processional]

M. Praetorius (1571–1621) & Carl Orff: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen

Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672): Ein Kind ist uns geboren SWV302

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621): Vater unser im Himmelreich

Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611–1675): Ihr lieben Hirten

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759):

The many rend the skies (Alexander’s Feast)—Swell, the full chorus (Solomon)—Sing unto God (Judas Maccabaeus)

Interval

Herbert Kennedy Andrews: Before Dawn

Malcolm Williamson: This Christmas Night

Jim Chappell: Lullaby

Peter Warlock: Bethlehem Down

Kelly Clarkson (arr. K-M Ng): Underneath the tree

Hugh Martin (arr. K-M Ng): Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Sarah Hart (arr. K-M Ng): The Light of Christmas Morn

Paul McCartney (arr. K-M Ng): A wonderful Christmas time

Charivari Agréable

Olwen Lintern-Smyth, soprano

Sadie Bosher, alto

Colin Danskin, tenor

Ben Gilchrist, bass

dir. Kah-Ming Ng, chamber organ

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£12 (Students <25, Jobseekers), £10 (children <16)

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