Repertoire

"Christmas  2008" 

The ESOC Chorus

Jeanne Conard, Conductors
 James Schar, Piano

Program

  part 1

“I Wonder as I Wander”                                                                                             John Jacob Niles, 1892-1980

“Dormi, dormi bel bambin”                                                         Popular Song, 19th C. Italian, arr. A. Schinelli
                                                                                           Natalija Skrypnyk, Violin

“There’s a Song in the Air”                                                                                     Karl P. Harrington, 1861-1953

“Lullay, my liking”                                                                                                              Gustav Holst, 1874-1934

“Bogoróđitse Dévo”                                                                                          Sergei Rachmaninov, 1873–1943
                                                                                            from the All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Op.37 (1915)

“O Lord, in thee is all my trust”                                                                                  Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585

"Gloria from the Mass in D, Op. 86"                                                                           Antonín Dvořák, 1841-1904

“When Jesus, our Lord”                                                                     Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,1808-1847                                                                                               from the unfinished Oratorio Christus

Two Chorales                                                                                                   Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750

        „O Jesulein süß, o Jesulein mild!“

       „Ach, mein herzliebes Jesulein“                            (from the Weihnachts Oratorium)

Natalija Skrypnyk, Milan Klinc, Violins

Three Songs                                                                       Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958

            “The Golden Carol”

            “Snow in the Street

“Wither’s Rocking Hymn”         Michaela Roubert, Mezzo-Soprano         

“Joy to the World!”                                  Melody, Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 (after Handel)  arr. John Rutter

                                                                                       part 2

*In dulci jubilo                                                                                                                   Marcel Dupré, 1886-1971
                                                              Michael Jones, Orgel

In dulci jubilo                                                                                                      aus Kluges Gesangbuch,  (1529)

Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen                                           15.Jh. Anonym  Harmonie (1609) von M. Pretorius

Stille Nacht                                                                                                                         Franz Gruber, 1787-1862

Who is the baby?                                                                                                  Rosephanye Powell, geb. 1962

Adeste Fideles                                                                                       18. Jh. Anonym       Arr. David Willcocks

*  Dieses Orgelstück spielen wir nur in der Christuskirche.
* This piece appears only on the program at the Christuskirche.