Celebrate Christmas

Kenneth Young CONDUCTOR
Anna Leese SOPRANO
Dimitri Atanassov VIOLIN
Eliah Sakakushev-von Bismarck CELLO
The Graduate Choir NZ - Director Terence Maskell

    
Manfredini:     Concerto Grosso Op 3 no 12 in C Major         
Handel:     Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord     
Handel:     Messiah: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth         
Vaughan Williams:     Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus

Howells:     'A Spotless Rose'        
Lane:     Overture on French Carols       

 
Interval      

Prokofiev:     Lieutenant Kije - No. IV Troika         
Tchaikovsky:     Sleeping Beauty - Waltz         
Humperdinck:     Hansel und Gretel - Song of the Sandman & Evening Prayer         
Massenet:     The Last Sleep of the Virgin         
Bizet:     L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: Farandole         
Bach Arr. Gounod:     'Ave Maria'    
Rutter:     'Angels' Carol'        
Rutter:     'I Saw Three Ships'        
Coleridge Taylor Arr. Baynes:     The Forest of Wild Thyme: Christmas Overture         
Gruber:     'Silent Night'

Share the spirit of Christmas in this now-traditional concert to mark the festive season. A concert that features some of the finest seasonal music performed by the orchestra, with Anna Leese, one of New Zealand’s best-loved sopranos.

A chance to share carols and favourite Christmas music with friends, family – and the APO.