High Street Dorchester-on-Thames Ox10 7HH
The Mirth & Melody of Angels
Music for Christmas and the festive season from medieval and renaissance Europe
Played and sung by The York Waits with singer Deborah Catterall
The York Waits return to Dorchester Abbey with a concert that explores the rich tapestry of seasonal music from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Angels abound, from the 1350’s Angelus ad Virginem – or Gabriel from Heven-King, to Orlando Gibbons’ Thus Angels Sung from the late Elizabethan era. Familiar German chorales are followed by French Noels and Mediterranean songs from the folk tradition, all accompanied by the full array of period instruments – shawms, sackbuts, curtals, crumhorns, bagpipes, recorders, flutes, fiddles, rebec, guitar, hurdy gurdy and portative organ.
The Waits perform regularly throughout the country, appearing frequently at festivals and celebratory events at home and abroad, on radio, and producing many recordings. They still play for civic occasions in York in the manner of their well documented historic predecessors, leading processions and greeting important visitors to the city.
Tim Bayley
Lizzie Gutteridge
Anna Marshall
Susan Marshall
William Marshall
Deborah Catteral
Further tickets available on the door
