This year, the BBC SSO presents not one but two Christmas concerts at City Halls! Like a soothing mug of hot chocolate on a chilly night, Christmas Classics is a heartwarming evening filled with yuletide carols, timeless orchestral pieces and festive classics as exhilarating as a midnight sleigh ride. Singer Jamie MacDougall never fails to bring a sparkle to the orchestra’s festive celebrations.
Programme:
Leroy Anderson
A Christmas Festival
Sergey Prokofiev
Troika from ‘Lieutenant Kijé’
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Christmas Night from ‘Christmas Eve’
Adolphe Adam, arr. John Langley
O holy night
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Waltz of the Flowers from ‘The Nutcracker’
Harold Darke
In the bleak midwinter
Trad., arr. Andrew Cottee
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Interval (20 minutes)
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Dance of the Tumblers from ‘The Snow Maiden’
Émile Waldteufel
The Skaters’ Waltz (Les patineurs)
Trad., arr. Philip Ledger, orch. Frank Spedding
Still, still, still
Victor Hely-Hutchinson
The First Nowell (3rd mvt from ‘A Carol Symphony’)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sleigh Ride (No. 3 from ‘Three German Dances’)
Andrew Cottee
The Night before Christmas
Mendelssohn/Wesley arr. Campbell
Hark! The herald angels sing
various, arr. Andrew Cottee
Christmas Singalong Medley
This concert ends at approximately 9.45pm and there will be an interval of 20 minutes.
