Carols by Candlelight

Melrose Parish Church, 7 December 2025

with members of Dalkeith and Monktonhall Brass Band
and Calum Robertson (organ)

Programme

O nata lux — Thomas Tallis (c.1505—1585)
Videte miraculum — Thomas Tallis
Lullaby — William Byrd (c.1540—1623)

Ecce novum gaudium — Trad.
The Christ Child’s lullaby — Trad., arr. Robert Marshall

Joseph Lieber — Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629)
In dulci jubilo — Hieronymus Praetorius

O magnum mysterium — Giovanni Gabrieli (1557—1612)

 INTERVAL 

Adam lay ybounden — John Ireland (1879–1962)
Fantasia on Christmas Carols — Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) 

A Hymn to the Virgin — Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
In the Bleak Midwinter — Harold Darke (1888–1976)
The Lamb — John Tavener (1944–2013)

Sussex Mummer’s Carol — Anon., arr. Percy Grainger (1882–1961) 

Winter Wonderland — Arr. Peter Gritton (b.1963) 

O Come, All Ye Faithful 

The Wise Men and the Star — Oliver Tarney (b.1970) 

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

Photos by Phil Wilkinson