Sacred Music at Christmas

Two special Christmas programmes that look beyond the familiar carols and festive songs to reveal two millennia of music and texts from across Europe

Sacred Music at Christmas - A Choral Christmas

Simon Russell Beale introduces a programme of choral music for Christmas from St Augustine's church in Kilburn, including works by Bach and Herbert Howells.

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Sacred Music at Christmas - A Christmas History

Simon Russell Beale visits Italy, Britain, Germany and Austria to see how the sound of Christmas has evolved in response to changing ideas about the Nativity.

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