The Little Road to Bethlehem

Quintessential Voices' latest album, 'The Little Road to Bethlehem,' is now available to buy!

The most famous story of all, The Birth of Jesus, is told here in words and music, using a wide variety of musical genres including plainsong, part-song, motet and traditional Christmas carol alongside famous Christmas readings.

Please click on the music player below to listen to an example from this beautiful, choral album.

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens' Famous Christmas Tale in Words and Music

A nostalgic sequence based on one of Charles Dickens most well-known works, Christmas Carol. QV tell the story of Scrooge and his change of heart in words and music in a nostalgic sequence to invoke the Christmas feeling. The programme places popular Christmas music including: O little town of Bethlehem, God rest ye merry, gentlemen and Tomorrow shall be my dancing day alongside less well-known repertoire, such as: Vaughan-Williams Mummers Carol and Purcell’s One Charming Night.

Celebrating Christmas
An Exploration of the Many Traditions of Christmas

In this sequence of words and music, we explore the traditions surrounding the celebration of Christmas. Moving from village to town, from church to manor house, from biblical times to the present, we discover the various customs of the Christmas season. There is an account of the temporary halt to fighting on Christmas Day in the Great War and a recent newspaper report on the damage Christmas causes the environment. We encounter famous literary characters such as Rat and Mole and the carol singers from Under the Greenwood Tree. The music ranges in style from renaissance liturgical setting to Christmas folksong to a close harmony arrangement of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer…
Designed to inform and in some instances surprise, this programme will entertain and bring to people some Christmas spirit.

I Wonder as I Wander
A Journey through Christmas