The Year's Midnight with Fretwork

Meditate with viol consort Fretwork and singer Clare Wilkinson on the year's shortest day, with the music of Dowland, Byrd, Purcell, Schubert, Warlock, Tan Dun, John Woolrich and Duncan Druce, as well as poetry by Shakespeare, TS Eliot, John Donne and Ted Hughes – read by actor Tom Courtenay. The concert also includes world premieres by the two winners of the National Centre for Early Music and the BBC Young Composer Competition – 'In Memoriam In Nomine' by Bertie Baigent, 'Death-Fires' by Sarah Gait and 'My o'erflowing teares' by Chris Roberts.