CHRISTMAS DAYBREAK

Public Radio International, December 2011
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Recorded in 2011 at Saint Paul’s Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
guest artists: members of Pig Iron Theatre Company and The Choir of Saint Paul’s Church

Malcolm Bruno, producer / Paul Vazquez, engineer

Program

Opening: Love came down at Christmas (1979) Edwin Fissinger

I look from afar (2003)                                   Gabriel Jackson

            Imagine striking a match                                 Joseph Brodsky

Alpha and Omega (2011)                                James MacMillan

            The Annunciation                                            Stephen Mitchell

Three Carols for Wintertide                             Benjamin C.S. Boyle

1.         Lo, how a rose e’er blooming (2007)

2.         The holly and the ivy (2008)

3.         Down with the Rosemary (2009)

            Station break: Organ improvisation on Gabriel’s Message

What child is this (1991/2007)                         Andrew Gant

Christmas Daybreak (1996)                             Robert Convery

            Vermeer                                                           Mitchell

Gabriel’s Message (2011)                                Zachary Wadsworth

            co-commissioned by The Crossing and St. Paul's Church of Chestnut Hill

            Station break: Organ improvisation on Gabriel’s Message

            January 1, 1965                                               Brodksy

Hevene Quene (2006)                                     Kerry Andrew

            Nativity                                                            Brodsky

Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ (2004)              Jackson

            Flight into Egypt                                              Brodsky

Tomorrow go ye forth (2003)                          Jackson

Closing credits: Adam lay ybounden (1997)       Colin Mawby

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