John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Constellation Choir & Orchestra

This concert celebrates the timeless beauty of choral and instrumental works in which themes such as memory, longing and transcendence are interwoven. John Eliot Gardiner conducts his new The Constellation Choir & Ensemble in Once as I remember, a Christmas story spanning five centuries with music from Byrd to Monteverdi and Sweelinck.

Programme

• Gloria in excelcis Deo
• Angelus ad Virginem
• Alma redemptoris Mater, IGP 6
• Gabriel's message
• Hodie Christus natus est, IGB 3
• Jolly Sheperd
• Hodie Christus natus est
• Past Three A Clock
• Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
• There Is No Rose
• Ave Maris Stella
• A Spotless Rose