the BEYONDwall

EXULTATE SINGERS conducted by David Ogden with cellist Richard May and accompanists Nicholas Abbott, Oliver Condy and Richard Johnson

CLIFTON , BeyondSUNDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2009 at 7.45pm The wall Exultate Singers would like to thank:

Ilya Bohae for his help with the pronunciation of the Czech text of Petr Eben’s Bitter Earth, supported by Making Music South West’s Foreign Language Grant.

Alicja Mazur for her help with the pronunciation of the Polish text of the traditional Bogurodzica plainchant.

Canon Alan Finley, Richard Jeffrey-Gray, Mary Manners, Peter Hek and the staff of Clifton Cathedral.

Peter Millar for speaking at tonight’s concert and adjudicating the competition.

All the young people who put forward submissions for the art and creative writing project.

The Lord and Lady Mayoress of Bristol for accepting our invitation to hear tonight’s concert.

Graham Melville-Mason, Patron of the Dvořák Society, for his help and advice.

Alina Peretti for her help with publicising the concert to the Polish community.

Roxanna Panufnik for her enthusiasm and commitment to the project.

Oliver Condy for conducting the pre-concert discussion.

Christopher Gray for researching and creating the sequence of images.

Pippa Ramsay for co-ordinating the schools’ art and creative writing competition.

Exultate Singers is grateful for the support of:

The Friends of Exultate Singers John Lewis Partnership Richard Pedlar Architects www.rpca.co.uk Pillow May Chartered Accountants www.pillowmay.co.uk Providence Music Shop www.providencemusic.co.uk the BEYONDwall Programme

Hořká hlína Bitter Earth Petr Eben (1929-2007) Píseň a Mužů Song of the Men and Women Píseň o Rodné Zemi Song of the Homeland Solo: Martin Le Poidevin Země Chudých Song of the Poor Behind the Wall - after World War II Peter Millar Berliner Messe Kyrie Arvo Pärt (b.1935) Cello Sonata George Crumb (b.1929) Fantasia; Tema pastorale con variazioni; Toccata Over the Wall - the night the wall came down Berliner Messe Gloria Arvo Pärt (b.1935) Bogurodzica, Dziewica Polish plainsong All Shall Be Well World Premiere Roxanna Panufnik (b.1968) There will be a short interval during which you are invited to stretch your legs and view the exhibition of submissions for the creative writing and art competition Song to the Virgin Mary Sir Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) Through the Wall - the night the wall came down Sarabande from Cello Suite in D minor J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Bourrée in C major J.S. Bach Beyond the Wall - the future Prague Te Deum 1989 Petr Eben

Please ensure you have turned off any digital watches or mobile phones before the concert begins. Beyond The Wall - Full of Hope Programme notes by David OGDEN, Ian Carpenter AND RICHARD MAY Hořká hlína Petr Eben World War. The deep sense of patriotism and sentiments of yearning for the poet’s homeland As a boy in poignantly echoed Eben’s own feelings at a time Nazi-occupied of uncertainty in his country’s future. Bohemia in the 1940’s the Czech The first movement, Píseň a Mužů (Song of composer Petr the Men and Women), contrasts outbursts of Eben found aggressive interrogation with a calm lullaby sung comfort and by the lower voices. The author pleads, ‘Let no inspiration more bayonets draw blood’. playing the cello in a trio with his father and Píseň o Rodné Zemi (Song of the Homeland) is a brother and also playing the church organ in quiet and humble confession sung by a baritone his home town of Českém Krumlově whilst soloist and upper voices. The soprano and alto the adult musicians were away on military accompaniment is in the style of a sarabande - a service. Music, especially choral and organ slow dance in 3 time. The word Krásná (beautiful) music, was to become the great passion of the is repeated throughout until at the end it changes composer’s life as he became one of the most to těžká (heavy), as if their dreamy optimism of loved and respected figures in Czech cultural the future is now weighed down by the reality of life and his country’s internationally best-known the present moment. contemporary composer. A fiery piano solo begins Země Chudých (Song Petr Eben’s father was Jewish and in 1943, Petr of the Poor) leading into the men passionately was expelled from school and shunned by many singing an embittered and angry plea. In the of his friends. He was taken to the concentration fourth verse the men sing of their unity with camp at Buchenwald in Germany and later the land and gradually the ladies build up their recalled standing with his brother in one of the confidence to sing with the men, praising the camp’s shower rooms, fully expecting to be land for its goodness to them, “Your sap will give gassed.While there was relief when water fell on us strength” - the beauty of creation will give the them, that moment was to colour Eben’s life and oppressed and downcast strength to survive. the human, Christian attitude by which he was to live out his days. Translation of the text (sung in Czech): He emerged from the camp with a reinforced I Píseň a Mužů Song of the Men and Women religious faith and a belief above all in the ability Say it, as a bayonet, say it. of the human spirit to survive the most terrible This simple word, say it, as a bayonet, say it. things. After the war he studied at the Prague They ask you plainly: “Who are you?” Academy of Music and in 1955 was appointed to You must answer. teach music at the Charles University. However he Let no more sharp grooved bayonets was never promoted due to his refusal to join the draw blood amidst our flowers and cities. Communist Party. Let children grow and not perish, so mothers dream as they cherish The cantata Bitter Earth for choir, baritone and their only sons cradled in their laps. piano, was composed in 1960 and tonight Mothers are cradling their little sons, receives its UK premiere. It sets verses by with dreams of life they care for them Jaroslav Seifert from the collection Zhasněte Mothers are cradling their little sons, světla (Put Out The Lights) written in the period For better things they care for them. of the Czech nation’s peril prior to the Second Mothers are cradling their little sons, with greater visions they comfort them. My native land, you belong to me, For happy endings they cradle and more to me than to another. and comfort them. You are my fate, my destiny, But when they ask you, ‘Who are you?” I know you called for me You must answer. and I saw you before my eyes Answer as a bayonet plainly, and raised the weapon high, this simple word. You must answer. for now you are in need, II Píseň o Rodné Zemi Song of the Homeland and in this evil time, you are my land, now you belong to me. Beautiful as on a jug a painted flower For pebbles shining smooth, is the land that bore you, gave you life, for flame of yellow flowers, beautiful as on a jug a painted flower, for hemlock and poppies sweeter than a loaf from fresh-ground flour that bloom along your paths, into which you’ve deeply sunk your knife. we love and shelter you. Countless times disheartened, disappointed, Until the breath is silenced, always newly you return to it your sap will give us strength countless times disheartened, disappointed, and that may ease our pain. to this land so rich and sun-anointed, poor like springtime in a gravel pit. Berliner Messe Arvo Pärt Beautiful as on a jug a painted flower, The works of heavy as our guilt that will not go away the Estonian - never can its memory decay. composer Arvo At the end, at our final hour Pärt divide into we shall slumber in its bitter earth. two distinct III Země Chudých Song of the Poor periods. As a Sweet grapes, but they’re not mine. student he The vineyards, they’re not for me. employed a From others’ peaceful gardens neo-classical style and, later, he switched to using waft scented blooms. Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique, serialism And when they asked me this, and collage. However, this proved to be creatively “What do we poor ones dream of?” unfruitful, as well as unpopular with the Soviet instead of words, establishment. In the early 1970s he spent came bitter laughter as my answer. I did not reap the grain, several years studying early music and emerged rolling it through my fingers with a new reductive, tonal style that he called when from the golden field “tintinabulli” in which he could compose fluently I heard the engines roar. and prolifically. In 1980 he moved to Vienna and But still I chance to catch became an Austrian citizen before moving to the sweet fragrance by my window West Berlin a year later. when others brought home their fresh bread. The Berliner Messe was composed in Not on the river banks, the tintinabulli style for the ‘German Catholics nor in the gold bearing sands Days’ held in Berlin in May 1990 and was first did I find precious gold performed during a church service in what was or semi-precious stones. still, although only just, East Berlin. The work was So, earth, I could not say originally scored for four solo voices and organ “I found what I was seeking, but it was later revised for chorus and string I now have all I want. My love belongs to you.” For on the river banks orchestra (1992) and choir and organ (1997). there were no gold bearing sands. As with many of Pärt’s choral works, the text plays Yet in this time of need a crucial role in determining the melodic patterns you are still mine, my homeland. and rhythms employed: for example, the Kyrie features simple scale wise motifs in the alto and are regularly performed all over the world. bass parts, both upwards and downwards and She is particularly known for her choral works all either starting or finishing on a fixed tonal having written pieces for centre note - G for the altos or Bb for the basses. The Sixteen and King’s College Cambridge The stressed syllable in each word is also given amongst others. One of her most widely an additional longer note in the scale fragment, performed works is the Westminster Mass, leading to an ebbing feeling of asymmetry. The commissioned for sopranos and tenors accompany these melodic Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume’s scales with the notes of a fixed G minor triad 75th birthday in 1998. A version of the Mass which give the characteristic -like quality of for choir, organ, and harp was written for a constant, yet subtly fluctuating, tonality. David Ogden and Clifton Cathedral Choir and premiered at the Cathedral in 1999. Tonight Cello Sonata George Crumb Exultate Singers is pleased to give the world premiere performance of All Shall Be Well. The American composer George Crumb was Roxanna Panufnik said of the work: a student in Berlin, where, in October 1955, “I’ve been longing for an opportunity to work with he wrote his compact, three movement Cello Bogurodzica, a 14th-Century plainsong hymn Sonata. His style is characterised by a brooding which Polish knights sang as they went into battle. Romanticism and an unparalleled sensitivity to So when Exultate Singers commissioned a piece sound distancing himself from the dissonant for this concert, this seemed the perfect chance. I and complex music of the time. “I believe that have also had my eye on Julian of Norwich’s (also music surpasses even language in its power to 14th Century) Divine Revelations - especially the mirror the innermost recesses of the human profoundly comforting words spoken to her by soul.” The opening Fantasia is based upon the God in chapter 32: All things shall be well. interval of a descending minor third, first heard after a series of pizzicato chords. The middle “When I looked closely at these two texts together, movement consists of a pastoral theme with I notice that they seemed to form a conversation. three variations and a coda in which the theme The knights’ plea for safety in victory and ‘paradise’ is repeated on muted strings. The final relentless (i.e. heaven) after life, are answered by God’s / Toccata is again dominated by thirds which are Julian’s comforting assurance ‘... that all manner of played in both rising and falling patterns making thing shall be well. Have faith, and have trust, and use of stark contrasts in dynamic and timbre. at the last day (i.e. the day you die) you shall see it all transformed into great joy.’ All shall be well Roxanna Panufnik “I have tried to represent this conversation with two choirs in stereo, over a solo cello - the latter The British often taking the main melodies and sometimes composer contributing gusto to the lower-pitched bass lines. Roxanna Panufnik is “From the last four lines of Bogurodzica - Hear the daughter the prayer we offer - all Polish and Middle of the English words change into modern English as composer and the conversation becomes ardent and cohesive, conductor concluding in ‘paradise’ and ‘great joy’. Sir Andrzej Panufnik. Since studying “The work is dedicated to Exultate Singers and the composition at the Royal Academy of Music, memory of my father, Sir Andrzej Panufnik, who she has written a wide range of pieces never thought he would live to see the wall come including opera, ballet, music theatre, choral down and be able to return to his native Poland - works and music for film and television which but he did return in 1990, the year before he died.” Bogurodzica, Dziewica, Mother of God, Oh Virgin, Bogiem sławienaMaryja, Glorified Mary by God, Twego syna, Gospodzina, Your son, our Lord, Matko zwolena, Maryja. Chosen Mother, Mary, Zyszczy nam, spuści nam, Conquer for us, bestow upon us, Kyrie eleison. Lord have mercy. Al thing shal be wele. ... al manner of thing shall be wele. Take now hede faithfully and trosting, and at the last end thus halt verily sen it in fulhede of joye. Twego dziela Krzciciela, Bożcyze, For the sake of your Baptist, God’s son, Usłysz głosy, napełn myśli człowiecze. Hear our voices, fulfill mankind’s intentions. Słysz modlitwę, jaż nosimy, Hear the prayer we offer a dać raczy, jegoż prosimy; And grant us what we ask of him: a na świecie zbozny pobyt, A pious stay on earth po żywocie rajski przebyt. And after life, Paradise. All things shall be well. ... all manner of things shall be well. Have faith, and have trust, and at the last day you shall see it all transformed into great joy. Kyrie eleison. Song to the Virgin Mary In 1953, the Communists were becoming ever more oppressive, demanding that he take part Sir Andrzej Panufnik in political activities completely against his moral Andrzej and artistic principles. Panufnik In despair, and assisted by his wife’s connections was born in in London, he eventually defected in 1954 Warsaw on 24th (narrowly evading capture by Communist September Secret Police) and was granted political asylum 1914. During in England. In his native Poland, his name was World War deleted from all records and publications and he Two he played became a ‘non-person’. piano duets in cafes with fellow composer Witold Lutoslawski, risking arrest when concerts As he struggled to make a living, Ralph Vaughan were banned by the Nazis. The Polish people Williams and pianist Witold Malcuzynski helped suffered terribly during the 1940s, not just from by arranging a bank loan and introducing him to the German occupation, but also after the patrons to sponsor his work. He conducted the Soviets ‘liberated’ them. The regime took control BBC Symphony Orchestra playing his Sinfonia and infiltrated every strata of life, such that all Rustica at the Proms, and signed a publishing decisions came from Moscow, and Polish culture deal with Boosey & Hawkes. In 1957, he took up was severely crushed. Panufnik was pressurised to the post of Music Director and Conductor of the take up positions which he disagreed with, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. became the music director of the Polish Army Andrzej met and fell in love with his second Film Unit, as well as conductor of the Krakow wife, photographer Camilla Jessel. His Song To Philharmonic Orchestra. Bureaucratic posts were The Virgin Mary was written for her a few weeks also forced on him, such as Vice President of the after their marriage in 1964. It is a setting of an Composers Union and a member of the Polish anonymous Latin text. The first performance was Committee for the Defence of Peace. at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Andrzej was finally invited on a return visit to music and often hiding plainsong melodies Poland in 1990 after 36 years away, where he in his pieces to hoodwink the Communist conducted his music, which had not been authorities. In 1989, the end of communist rule performed there until 1976. He was knighted brought complete liberation. by the Queen in 1990, and died in Twickenham “During the last forty years, we in on 27th October 1991. Czechoslovakia have had no cause for singing a Mary... Te Deum. When in 1989 we suddenly achieved More beautiful than the moon, purer than starlight, the freedom so long denied us, the Gregorian brighter than the sun: melody of the Te Deum hymn just swelled all celebrations of praise, hymns and songs, up in my soul and despite all the turbulence proclaim you. accompanying the revolutionary period, Glory of heaven, of royal progeny, I managed to compose the Te Deum over daughter of the Father: New Year 1990, as an act of thanksgiving for every heavenly song, every angelic melody, joins in praise of you. all that had happened. For the main theme I used the first two phrases of plainsong each O chaste lily-of-the-valley, pray to the son on our behalf: of which is followed by a refrain-like response may hearts be pure in mind in a contemporary musical language. This when your servants call upon you. juxtaposition is important as it symbolizes Fill my heart with awe, with regret, the reconciling of historical traditions and with bitterness: contemporary reality within the Church.” a contrite heart – this makes me complete The Te Deum was first performed in Prague and restores me too. on 20th April 1990 at a concert given in In this exile, be present as my help, honour of Pope John Paul II on the eve of with your son: his visit. The piece is a vibrant hymn of praise amidst danger and the sting of death, and thanksgiving that celebrates the spirit of this small voice of mine sings. hope and endurance. “I believe our century is Mother of the most high, bride of the most holy, profoundly lacking in gratitude. So perhaps the seat of the most exalted: most urgent task of art is to praise, otherwise, after so many storms, our vessels broken, the stones would cry out.” be for us a dear haven of rest. And when my tongue becomes weary and cannot Eben’s biographer speak, Graham Melville- but my heart still beats: Mason describes in death may my best and last breath be for you, the composer’s Mary, breath of life. Translation: Susan Pontin reaction to the fall of the Berlin Wall. “Petr Prague Te Deum 1989 was staying with us in London, the day Petr Eben after the great event Under the communist regime Eben’s musical he went shopping activity was curtailed, particularly organ for a pair of shoes, concerts ‘because it was considered the saying that he wished to be wearing new shoes instrument that brought spiritual ideas’. The when he stood again on the soil of a new composer resisted these restrictions composing Czechoslovakia. In our visitor’s book of that song cycles, choral works and string quartets occasion he wrote “Full of Hope (once again influenced by Moravian folksong and Jewish in my life!).” Exultate Singers

Exultate Singers was founded to sing Sunday Worship on BBC Sopranos Tenors Radio 4 for a live broadcast in September 2002. It has gone on Liz Bagshaw David Ball to give over 90 concerts, broadcasts and other appearances Zöe Carter-Beedie David Brown in churches, and concert halls in the South West, Victoria Fortin Richard Bunce Wales and London. In October 2007 the choir toured Germany, Susan Green Daniel Bushby singing in Bach’s Church in Leipzig and in Berlin, Potsdam and Alice Harper Ian Carpenter Elena Hazelgrove- Oliver Condy Brandenburg. The choir has given several broadcasts on BBC Planel Andrew Grigg Radio including a broadcast of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert Rachel Irwin Guy Withers live on Radio 4 from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Joanna Osborn Basses Pippa Ramsay Exultate Singers’ debut CD, Visions of Peace, was released Nick Abbott Eleanor Roylance in 2005 and featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Choir. In 2008 Richard Bacon Emmeline Smith John Rutter produced and recorded the choir’s second CD, Christopher Gray Antonia Taylor A Time For Singing. With a repertoire of over 300 separate Richard Johnson Sarah Taylor Martin Le Poidevin pieces - ranging from two-minute anthems to whole works Alice Tyler Mike Osborn such as Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Duke Ellington’s Jo Wyld Nic Pillow Sacred Concert - the choir has sung music from plainsong Altos and Renaissance masterpieces to contemporary music, jazz Tim Reader Kate Abbott Charlie Wyld and spirituals in an array of different languages including Felicity Ball Russian, Latin, Aztec, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Rowan Cope Vocal coach Spanish, Quechua, Tagalog, Welsh and Icelandic. Alison Harris Pamela Rudge The choir’s Christmas concerts include an appearance at Judith Ogden Language coaches Gillian Patch an annual Christmas Concert in St Nicolas Church, Newbury Ilya Bohae Jessica Pillow Alicja Mazur on Saturday 5th December, and Carols by Candlelight in Sue Pontin St Bonaventure’s Church, Bishopston, Bristol on Thursday Barbara Rusbridge 17th December. www.exultatesingers.org Amy Slevin David Ogden Conductor David is much in demand as a conductor and director of choral and church music workshops, courses and festivals in the UK and abroad. As well as Exultate Singers, he conducts City of Bristol Choir, the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, Bristol Schools Chamber Choir, Midlands and South West Cathedral Singers, and the youth choir, Bristol Voices. For over 20 years he has worked with numerous professional and amateur groups of all shapes and sizes in many fields of music making, including concerts, musical theatre and opera, community projects, primary and secondary level educational workshops, from small children’s groups to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In the UK, he works extensively

Photograph: Louise Broom Louise Photograph: with the Royal School of Church Music, and with the BBC, conducting choirs on BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and the World Service, and working as conductor, arranger and music adviser on BBC TV’s Songs of Praise. His compositions are published by the RSCM and White Light Publishing, and are performed in schools and churches worldwide. His music is broadcast frequently on BBC radio and television. In April 2008 one of his anthems was performed by a 250-strong choir in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI as part of a Papal Mass in the Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium in Washington DC with a congregation of 40,000 people in attendance. In April 2009 he travelled to Assisi to conduct the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir in a week-long choral pilgrimage for the BBC, marking the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Order of St Francis. In 2004 David was made an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his services to church music. www.davidogden.co.uk RICHARD MAY CELLO Richard May is one of Britain’s most outstanding cello players. Since winning the BBC TV Young Musician of the Year Competition, String Section, he has pursued an international career as soloist and chamber musician. He has performed most of the major cello concerti with such orchestras as the Basel Symphony, Ulster and BBC Philharmonic. He has performed throughout the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, , South Africa, Japan, Chile and the USA, with appearances at the Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Barbican and at festivals in Salzburg, Berlin and Aldeburgh. His London debut recital at the Purcell Room included the world premiere of Five Duos for cello and piano by Colin Matthews, written for him. A recital in Basel of Bach Solo Suites gained critical acclaim for “absolute perfection and virtuosity”.He also gave a recital for the TV series and Chandos CD Solo, featuring British musicians. Richard studied with Florence Hooton at Royal Academy of Music and afterwards with William Pleeth, Paul Tortelier and Thomas Demenga.Past prizes include the National Federation of Music Societies Award and the EMI Jacqueline Du Pre Competition, where The Times wrote of the Shostakovich Sonata “simply one of the most gripping performances I have heard”. He has given masterclasses at the National Academy of Music, Kiev and was also invited to perform Vivaldi Double Concertos with Nigel Kennedy. He was cellist of the Angell Piano Trio for nearly twenty years and performed throughout the world, often for radio. The New York Times said of them “it would be hard to imagine a more powerful performance” (US premiere of James MacMillan’s Fourteen Little Pictures). Richard is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and Professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Wells Cathedral Specialist Music School as well as Visiting Artist at Stowe School. Forthcoming projects include masterclasses at the International Music Summer Academy at . Peter MILLAR AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST Peter Millar was born in Northern Ireland and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read French and Russian. He subsequently joined Reuters and was posted to Brussels, before beginning a life-long love affair with Berlin as the only non-German western correspondent in East Berlin. He reported from Warsaw during the Solidarity period and from Moscow, where he pressed the button that first told the world of the election of Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1985 he joined the Telegraph group and in 1989 The Sunday Times as Central Europe Correspondent. He was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year for his coverage of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. He then worked briefly as Deputy Editor of Robert Maxwell’s The European, before returning to The Sunday Times on a freelance basis. He is also popular fiction critic for The Times. Peter Millar is the author of two thrillers in English (and three others which have been translated into German), as well as a travel book (All Gone to Look for America, Arcadia 2009) and the newly released 1989: The Berlin Wall, My Part in Its Downfall (Arcadia 2009), signed copies of which will be available to buy this evening. He has also translated several books from the German, including the best-selling White Masai. www.petermillar.eu

OLIVER CONDY ORGAN Oliver studied English and French at Cardiff University, and spent a year in Paris, studying the organ with Susan Landale at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rueil Malmaison while teaching English at Lycée Montaigne. The year culminated in him being awarded a ‘Premier Prix’. After graduating in 2000, Oliver completed an MA in organ performance studies at Cardiff University, studying under the renowned Bach scholar Peter Williams. Oliver has been the editor of BBC Music Magazine since 2004 before which he was deputy editor of Classic FM Magazine.

RICHARD JOHNSON PIANO Richard combines a professional career as a patent attorney with a busy schedule of musical activities. His double life began at Oriel College in the University of Oxford, where he held both the organ scholarship and an academic scholarship in physics. After leaving Oxford, Richard was briefly at the Crown Court Church of Scotland in Covent Garden, London before moving to Bristol. He is a member of Exultate Singers, accompanist to the City of Bristol Choir and Assistant Director of Music at Westbury-on-Trym Church.

NICK ABBOTT ORGAN Nick was organ scholar at Girton College, Cambridge and has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Russia and Japan. As a soloist, Nick has performed concertos with orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London, St James’s Church in Prague and at the Conservatory of Music in Moscow. As an accompanist, Nick won a gold medal in the Takarazuka Chamber Choir Competition in Osaka, and has played at many of the most prestigious cathedrals in Europe, including mass at St Peter’s in . Currently he works for ACFEA Tour Consultants organizing concert tours for orchestras and choirs worldwide. Carolsby

CandA concert of beautiful carols and Christmas music forelightl choir and Welsh harp

EXULTATE SINGERS conducted by David Ogden with Angharad Thomas Welsh harpist and soprano

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