Christmas Organ Recital

Js Bach - Chorale Prelude ‘Wachet auf’' BWV645

Dieterich Buxtehude - Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern Bux 223

Claude Balbastre - Première Suite de Noëls ‘Joseph est bien marié’

Berlioz - The Shepherds’ Farewell

Noel Rawsthorne - Prelude on Divinum Mysterium

Jean Langlais - La Nativité (Poèmes Évangéliques)

Arr. Tracey - Christmas Medley

Henri Mulet - Carillon-Sortie

Ian Tracey - organ

Following the success of last year’s concert, Liverpool Cathedral and City Organist Ian Tracey returns this Christmas with another selection box of irresistible festive treats. Expect Bach’s evergreen ‘Wachet auf’ followed by a spectacular showpiece by a composer who inspired the young Bach, sublime music from Berlioz and Balbastre, a piece that pays homage to an ancient carol and a fabulously tinselled medley of American Christmas songs.