Communion Service for mixed voices (SATB) and organ, including music which is based on traditional carols, and words of the Mass in Latin.

This work conveys contrasting moods, each appropriate to the liturgical texts of the Mass. Overall, there is a clear sense of joyful celebration.

Listeners will easily recognise the Christmas carols used in June Nixon's MISSA NATIVITATIS DOMINI, including the Coventry Carol, Remember, O thou man, Gabriel's message, Eastern monarchs, Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, The holly and the ivy, Ding dong! merrily on high and Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?, as well as some others.

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Communion Service for mixed voices (SATB) and organ, words of the Mass in Latin.

This setting was commissioned by the Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral in 2015 as part of the 800th anniversary celebrations of Magna Carta. The music makes use of phrases from the plainsong ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’.

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TOCCATA FESTIVA ON 'HARK! THE HERALD-ANGELS SING'

by Richard Elfyn Jones for organ

While some phrases in this ‘Toccata Festiva’ inevitably are quotations from Mendelssohn’s much-loved Christmas hymn, the tendency here is to shy away from recalling too overtly the famous melody.

Essentially, this seasonal piece reflects a more fanciful, personal response to the original melody, so that snippets of the original tune are periodically heard disguised and recast. The moto perpetuo is unrelenting and highly charged, composed in the French organ tradition associated with Boëllmann, Dubois, Gigout, Vierne and others.

The celebratory mood of this piece is epitomised throughout by heroic triads coupled with use of the octatonic scale. Both these elements serve to add a jubilant glitter to the texture and the harmonies.

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CHRISTMAS EVE AT KING'S

written and compiled by Timothy Rogers

In this fascinating book, the author has delved into the archives in Cambridge to produce a complete record of the music that has been used in the world-famous Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s over the last 100 years. Listing all of the Christmas pieces, he reveals the most performed carol from the Festivals since 1918. 

‘Any musician who loves the King’s Christmas Eve service will find in this book things to intrigue and in which to delight.’ CHOIR & ORGAN

ISBN 978-1-5272-4725-3, (GBP) £9.99 paperback