Haydn's St Nicholas Mass provides an appropriately festive setting, sung by the Cathedral Choir. They are joined by the congregation in singing favourite carols to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Music includes popular traditional carols including O Come, All Ye Faithful and Haydn's St Nicholas Mass.

A lover of church music, Nicholas set Haydn the task of composing a new setting of the mass every year. In 1804 ... The choirmaster at St Stephen's Cathedral suggested Haydn become a castrato, but his ...