‘Christmas hath a darkness/Brighter than the blazing noon’: in her imaginative and thoughtful response to Christina Rossetti’s Christmas Eve, Tansy Davies has created a beguiling 6-minute carol. Premiered at the 2011 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge, this modern but accessible work for unaccompanied SATB choir would make an interesting pairing with the better known Rossetti setting In the Bleak Midwinter.

Christmas Eve

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