Poetry Cafe 30: Christmas Edition, Dec 24

Texts read and Music played:-

1. Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto no. 8 – Fatto per la Notte di Natale
2. Gospel of St Luke, Ch. 2, vv. 1-7
3. O Come all ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
4. Christmas, poem by John Betjeman
5. Vaughan Williams: The Truth sent from above
6. Gospel of St Matthew, Ch. 2
7. Narodil de Kristus Pan (The Lord is Born)
8. Michael Praetorius: Omnis mundus jucundetur (Let the Earth Rejoice in Chorus)
9. The Computer’s First Christmas Carol, poem by Edwin Morgan
10. The Glenn Miller Orchestra: Jingle Bells
11. Bernhard Ingemann: Julien har bragt velsignet bud
12. Irving Berlin: White Christmas, sung by Bing Crosby
13. Handel: The Messiah (Pastoral Symphony)
14. Gospel of St Luke, Ch. 2, vv. 8 ff
15. Swete was the song (16th.c., anon.)
16. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite (Arabian Dance)
17. Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto no. 8 – Fatto per la Notte di Natale