Warwickshire Singers to put on Christmas concert of choral music in Kenilworth
Warwickshire Singers will present Benjamin Britten’s radiant A Ceremony of Carols alongside Kristina Arakelyan’s recently premiered A Christmas Offering at St Francis of Assisi RC Church in Kenilworth on Monday December 14 from 7.30pm.
Written for treble voices and harp, A Ceremony of Carols sets medieval and early English texts to music that moves from luminous stillness to vivid rhythmic energy.
Kristina Arakelyan’s A Christmas Offering is a nine-movement companion piece to Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.
Drawing on medieval English and Latin texts, it moves from the exuberant energy of Alleluia! to the contemplation of Out of the East and the tenderness of There is No Rose.
Arakelyan’s contemporary musical language evokes a medieval sound world while reflecting her Armenian heritage and other Eastern influences.
Described as a "rising star” by BBC Music Magazine in 2021, composer-pianist Kristina is one of the most gifted and promising musicians of her
generation.
The programme will be directed by Jim Bate, with Erica Sinclair on harp.