This festive collection of three Christmas solos for soprano with brass quintet, organ, and percussion contains Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella; In the Bleak Midwinter and Rise Up, Shepherd,
This canticle based on texts taken from the Gospel of Luke is designed like a triptych painting. Fashioned like a visual art triptych, the "left panel" or Prologue of the piece proclaims