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A Baroque Christmas with the ACC8

Saturday 4 December 2021 at 3PM Thomson Memorial Church, Terang
Sunday 5 December 2021 at 5PM
Scots’ Church, Melbourne

Celebrate Christmas 2021 with the A C C 8 singing the best music from the Renaissance, Baroque and beyond

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PROGRAM

Christmas celebration
Andreas Hammerschmidt 
(1611–75) Halleluia, freuet euch ihr Christen alle
Luca Marenzio (1553/4-99) Hodie, Christus natus est

Roses
Anonymous melody
(16th Century, Cologne), harmonised by Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Herbert Howells (1892-1983) A Spotless Rose

Five German Motets
Johannes Eccard
 (1553–1611) Resonet in laudibus; Vom Himmel hoch
Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) Das Wort ward Fleisch (SWV 385)
Michael Praetorius Singt und klingt
Bartholomäus Gesius (1562–1613)/Michael Praetorius  Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem

William Byrd (1541–1623)
Ave verum
O magnum mysterium
Sanctus/Benedictus and Agnus Dei from the Mass for Four Voices,

Bach and Luther
Martin Luther
(1483–1546)/Adam Gumpelzhaimer (1559-1625)  Vom Himmel hoch
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Lobet den Herrn

Traditional Carols
Basque Traditional 
The Angel Gabriel, arranged David Willcocks
French traditional, Angels we have heard on high, arranged FA Gevaert, E Anderson


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* All concerts will be presented in full compliance with any safety restrictions imposed by the State and Federal governments at the time of the concert. See the ACC’s COVIDsafe policy.