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APO Christmas Concert

APO Christmas Concert Photo: Adrian Malloch

To mark the end of their 2018 season and to celebrate Christmas, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra played a special Christmas concert at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell, Auckland. With them on stage are the Graduate Choir New Zealand with their director Terence Maskell and bass-baritone James Ioelu. The conductor is Hamish McKeich.

The APO performs:

Vivaldi

Concerto in C for Two Trumpets: Allegro

Handel

Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord

Handel

Messiah: The Trumpet Shall Sound

Mozart

German Dance No.3: Sleigh Ride

Rutter

Shepherd’s Pipe Carol

Adams arr. Moses-Tobani

The Holy City

Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Suite No.1: Miniature Overture, March, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Waltz of the Flowers

Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on Greensleeves

Vaughan Williams

Hodie: The Oxen

Vaughan Williams

Hodie: The Shepherds Sing

Chris Artley [NZ]

Christmas Bells

Trad. Arr. Willcocks

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

Anderson

Sleigh Ride

Willcocks

Ding Dong! Merrily On High

Trad. Arr. Cohen

The First Noel

Mendelssohn arr. Willcocks

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Gruber Arr. Maskell

Silent Night

 

Recorded by RNZ at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland.

Engineered and produced by Adrian Hollay and Tim Dodd.