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Gaudete!

The Rodolfus Choir at Douai Abbey

Add to my Calendar 31-12-2025 15:00 31-12-2025 17:00 36 Gaudete! The Rodolfus Choir performs the second of two concerts as part of their annual Twixmas project, featuring some of the finest choral music written for the season. Join us in the stunning setting of Douai Abbey to enjoy inspiring choral music by composers from the Renaissance to the present day. Douai Abbey, Reading DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Douai Abbey
Upper Woolhampton
Reading
Berkshire
RG7 5TQ
England

Programme

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Welcome, Yule!
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Hodie Christus natus est a8
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Alma redemptoris Mater
Francis Poulenc – 4 Motets pour le temps de Noël, FP 152
Michael Higgins – Bring us, O Lord God
Lucy Walker – O nata lux
Bob Dylan – Make you feel my love (arr. Anna Lapwood)
Adrian Peacock – Venite, gaudete!
Johann Sebastian Bach – Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (motet), BWV 230
Eric Whitacre – Lux Aurumque
Steven Sametz – Gaudete
Peter Davis – The shepherds sing
Alison Willis – I sing of a maiden
Cecilia McDowall – Now may we singen
Ralph Allwood – Wo Jesu
Ralph Allwood – Jingle Bells

Performers

Ralph Allwood – Conductor
Laura Bailie – Conductor
Peter Davis – Conductor / organ

The Rodolfus Choir

Programme Note

The Rodolfus Choir performs the second of two concerts as part of their annual Twixmas project, featuring some of the finest choral music written for the season. Join us in the stunning setting of Douai Abbey to enjoy inspiring choral music by composers from the Renaissance to the present day.

Gaudete! The Rodolfus Choir at Douai Abbey

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