In the Bleak Midwinter

ST JOHN'S SOUTHGATE

Choristry’s December concert celebrates a more secular Christmas theme focusing on the wintry elements that are not always the experience of an Australian audience.

The repertoire is driven by three different settings of Christina Rosetti’s beautiful text In The Bleak Midwinter by Gustav Holst, Harold Darke and Bob Chilcott, and the centrepiece of the concert is John Rutter’s festive but secular choral cycle When Icicles Hang.

Also included are winter themed pieces by Edward Elgar and Finnish composer Harri Wessman as well as a selection of carols both familiar and surprising.