WEYMOUTH LUNCHTIME CHAMBER CONCERT

St Mary’s Church, Weymouth

MUCH so-called Christmas music seems designed to make you buy something in a hurry and make a quick getaway.

Not so the Barn Choir’s lunchtime carol concert in St Mary’s Church, Weymouth.

A small chamber choir directed by Dr. Richard Hall, they performed to a packed house with style and panache.

Duncan Honeybourne, accompanied splendidly on piano and organ and Martin Weston, a baritone with an exceptionally sweet voice, was the soloist.

The choir’s major work was Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

This delightful work is a medley of interwoven folk carols, mainly collected last century in the West Country, from local musicians – for example Come All You Worthy Gentlemen and We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The audience joined in for a rousing O Come All Ye Faithful and a good time was had by all.

JANET FERRETT