Christmas 2022
‘“Throw cares away” Christmas is here, bringing good cheer’
- Carol of the Bells
LIVE From London Christmas 2022 offered hope, joy and a chance for its global audience to celebrate together and support others. Leading the lineup were two new concerts - The VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra brought a philanthropically festive reading of Handel’s famous Messiah. Broadcast live from the VOCES8 Centre under the baton of Barnaby Smith, the concert was given in aid of the VOCES8 Foundation Scholarship Fund.
A final candle in LIVE From London’s Advent sing was Winter Wonderland. Apollo5 and VOCES8 presented a new selection of seasonal treats from Sweelinck Hodie Christus Natus est and Pearsall In dulci jubilo through to Howells, Warlock and contemporary classics alongside The Unexpected Early Hour from Indian-American composer Reena Esmail's new work A Winter Breviary.
Snuggled between were return broadcasts of five of your favourite concerts from prior festivals. We enjoyed again Rachel Podger’s soaring violin as she joined VOCES8 in A Guardian Angel; listened to Stephen Fry narrate Paul Smith’s magical journey through the woods to The Winter House with the Academy of Ancient Music; experienced Apollo5’s beautiful A Deep But Dazzling Darkness; VOCES8’s sparkling Winter Tales; and finally, cosied up with Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini’s Long, Long Ago - Messe de Minuit in a wonderment of Dylan Thomas, Howells and Charpentier. Seven stunning concerts heralded in the light of a new year.
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