Performance on 3 - Howells, Britten - Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 1

From Lancing College Chapel, Sussex. Presented by Suzy Klein. The BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers perform a concert of Christmas music, featuring works by two 20th-century British composers. The programme includes some of Herbert Howells's much-loved carol-anthems, include the lyrical A Spotless Rose and Here is the little door, as well as Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, a showpiece for treble voices, written during the Second World World War as the composer returned from America by sea. Listeners who have satellite or digital TV can press their TV red button to watch this specially recorded performance for seven days from 19 December. Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Sioned Williams (harp) Daniel Norman (tenor) BBC Singers BBC Concert Orchestra Andrew Carwood (conductor) Britten: A Ceremony of Carols Howells: Three Carol-Anthems.