A Ceremony of Carols by Candlelight
Wed 02 Dec
|St Martin-in-the-Fields
A programme of music for Advent and Christmas, performed by the sopranos and altos of St Martin’s Voices and harpist Alis Huws, our Artist in Residence.
Time & Location
02 Dec 2026, 19:00
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 4JJ, UK
About the event
A programme of music for Advent and Christmas, performed by the sopranos and altos of St Martin’s Voices and harpist Alis Huws, our Artist in Residence. Composed as a response to Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Kristina Arakelyan’s A Christmas Offering also sets medieval texts in Latin and early English, with musical language which alludes to early medieval writing.
Esther Bersweden I saw three ships
Becky McGlade In the bleak midwinter
Sarah Quartel This endris night
Kristina Arakelyan A Christmas Offering
Britten A Ceremony of Carols
Alis Huws harp
Upper Voices of St Martin’s Voices
Andrew Earis conductor
Please note this concert will last for approximately 60 minutes without an interval.