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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from St John's, Smith Square, London: Episode 1: Ceremony of Carols

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Episode 1: Ceremony of Carols

Ceremony of Carols

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From St John's, Smith Square, Petroc Trelawny presents Britten's Ceremony of Carols.

From St John's, Smith Square, London, Petroc Trelawny presents Britten's Ceremony of Carols, with harpist Sally Pryce joining the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Live from St John's Smith Square, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Britten's Ceremony of Carols and St Nicolas. Harpist Sally Pryce joins the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge for Britten's masterful setting for youthful voices of Christmas texts which begin and end with the plainsong hymn Hodie, Christus natus est. 
Allan Clayton is the tenor soloist in Britten's dramatic depiction of the colourful life and joyful death of St Nicolas, Bishop of Myra, a legend that reaches "Across the tremendous bridge of sixteen hundred years..." 

Britten A Ceremony of Carols 
Sally Pryce (harp), The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

Allan Clayton (tenor), 
Boys from the Temple Church Choir, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Holst Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Stephen Layton (conductor).

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Petroc Trelawny presents a performance of Britten's Ceremony of Carols and St Nicolas

From St John's, Smith Square in London, Petroc Trelawny presents a performance of Britten's Ceremony of Carols and St Nicolas

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