BBC Concert Orchestra
10 Dec 2016, Southbank Centre, London
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Friday Night is Music Night Friday Night is Music Night: Merry Christmas!

BBC Concert Orchestra
Friday Night is Music Night: Merry Christmas!
19:30 Sat 10 Dec 2016 Royal Festival Hall
Fill yourself with festive cheer at this special Christmas concert.
Fill yourself with festive cheer at this special Christmas concert.

Performers

Concert Information

Mark Gatiss stars as Scrooge, in Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol,' in BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night's special Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall. The concert includes six scenes from the Dickens classic, with an all star cast including Lee Ingleby, Rosie Caviliero and Desmond Barrit, along with Christmas classics from Katie Melua and the Gori Women’s choir, star singers Shaun Escoffrey, John Owen-Jones, Rosalie Craig and Louise Dearman, plus the Capital Voices and the seventy piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Richard Balcombe. Among the music, 'White Christmas', 'Sleigh Ride', 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas', 'Felice Navidad', ' O Holy Night', 'The Carol of the Bells', ’Joy to the World and many more. Presented by Ken Bruce.