Christmas Miscellany

New Christmas Writing

Jigging in Heaven, by Paul Howard; 
Creatures Who Fly Through The Night, by Christine Dwyer Hickey; 
John McCormack at Christmas, by Tom McGurk; 
I Saw You, a poem by Dónal Ryan; 
Letter to Santa, by Vincent Woods; 
Moving Pictures, by Danielle McLaughlin; 
I'm Dreaming of the Whites’ Christmas, by Jonathan White, 
And 
The Things We Left on Doorsteps, a poem by Rachael Hegarty

Music:

Fauré's Requiem, sung by the Choir of New College, Oxford, directed by Edward Higginbottom; 

Christmas Tree Waltz by Rebikov, played by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted by Gavin Sutherland; 

I Hear You Calling, sung by John McCormack (and an extract of him singing Adeste Fideles before that); 

Requiem for My Friend: Lux Aeterna, by Zbigniew Preisner, sung by Elzbieta Towarnicka with the Warsaw Chamber Choir; 

Schubert's Wiegenlied, played by Julian Lloyd Webber on cello with John Lenehan on piano; 

Dream 13 (minus even) by Max Richter; 

And 
Deck the Halls, arranged by David Willcocks and performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne.