I’ll do a very quick round up of Christmas music. I miss the carol burn-out suffered by many people I know by going away for Christmas but I did sing in our Advent carol service. The new piece this year was one of the Merton settings of the ‘O’ Antiphons, O radix Jesse by Rihards Dubra. We are promised others from the set in future years.
St David’s Cathedral offered the usual Christmas services, and we queued for over an hour to secure a pair of nave seats for their 9 Lessons and Carols. The choir were on especially good form this year. For variety we had Darke in F on Christmas morning rather than the Little Organ Mass.