Michael Praetorius’s music was celebrated again in his anniversary year of 2021 and thanks to a wonderful 1994 disc from the Gabrieli Consort, his music for Christmas has become his most loved calling card.

Paul McCreesh will describe it as “Lutheran music at its most beguiling” as well as “community music at its best’, allowing amateur singers, congregational input, children’s choirs and local instrumentalists to join in.

Through his settings of the great carols Von Himmel hoch, In dulci jubilo, Puer natus in Bethlehem, Quem pastores laudavere and Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, we will be able to travel through the entire Advent, Christmas and Epiphany stories, whilst exploring contemporary art and history.