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Christmas Musical Treasures: Britten & Messiaen

Name: Christmas Musical Treasures: Britten & Messiaen
Start: 2025-12-20T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-20T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Blackburn Cathedral

20th December at 7:00 pm

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Date: 20th December 2025

Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue: Blackburn Cathedral

Combining two of the best-loved classical Christmas works of all time, this promises to be a very special concert.

Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols – with harp and children’s voices – and Olivier Messiaen’s mighty La Nativité, for organ, make up the programme for this unique festive concert.

Accompanying the sensational voices of the junior Cathedral choristers will be reknowned Welsh harpist Eira Lynn Jones and Blackburn Cathedral’s Director of Music, John Robinson.

Please join us as we get into the Christmas spirit with these highly colourful and unique pieces.

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