Several of our annual Christmas concerts have explored the rich repertory of seasonal music written in Lutheran Germany during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.  This year the concert surveys music for the Christmas season from Advent to Epiphany, beginning with J.S. Bach’s Advent cantata ‘Nun komm der heiden Heiland’ and ending with Buxtehude’s delightful ‘Das neugeborne Kindelein’.  In between there will be motets and sonatas by Schütz, Tunder, Bernard, Schmelzer, Biber and others.

Claire Tomlin has been appearing at the Suffolk Villages Festival since she was a student, and is now much in demand as a solo and consort singer, working with groups such as the Monteverdi Choir and Ex Cathedra.  She gives regular recitals in London, at Lincoln’s Inn and other venues.