John Rutter
set us a challenge to find composer Barbara Bell, and we managed to do
it. Now the two have been re-united and her carol has been performed at
the Royal Albert Hall.
Saturday, December 26, 2015
#7 New 2015 Christmas Recordings on Facebook
We posted the covers of many of the new Christmas albums that came out in 2015. Just go to our Facebook Page and scroll down on the wall to December 25.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
#6 New Christmas Recordings 2014, Part III
by R. Rojas
Reformatted, Dec. 5, 2022.
Let There Be Light (2014)
Chapel Choir of Trinity College, Oxford
The choir spent three days recording their new CD of European Sacred Music in February 2014. The CD was recorded in the Oratory Church in Oxford, the amazing architecture of which provided a fantastic acoustic for the choir's singing. The finished CD includes many exciting and interesting pieces from all over Europe, and it will be released in November - just in time to make the perfect Christmas present for family and friends!
On
Christmas Night by Armonico Consort, Morten Lauridsen,
Franz Gruber, Ralph Blane and John Francis Wade (2014)
A dynamic and innovative conductor and keyboard player, Christopher Monks is founder and Artistic Director of Armonico Consort. Specializing in the performance of music from the Renaissance and Baroque, Christophers concerts and recordings have earned him several five-star reviews in both The Times and The Independent. ...vocal lines can float; suspensions can melt, and the listener can relax and marvel at the singer's superb breath control and rock-steady intonation this disc of unending delight." -Gramophone
Buxtehude:
Complete Organ Works- Advent / Christmas / Epiphany / Lent / Annunciation /
Passion / Easter / Whitsun... by Ulrik Spang-Hanssen
and Dietrich Buxtehude (2014)
- Import
Dormi
Jesu - A Caius Christmas by Choir of Gonville &
Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber and Various (2014)
It was with typical discernment that Geoffrey Webber, director of the Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, responded to a request to put together his dream Christmas collection. Opening with Jan Sandstrom's sublime deconstruction of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen," Webber's classy choir reveals and delights in equal measure, finding space for both the Venetian lushness of Gabrieli and the distilled purity of Webern in a seasonal collection which is also sprinkled with unexpected gems of more recent provenance.
As the third installment of A Seraphic Fire Christmas, Candlelight Carols: Music for Chorus and Harp is a unique collaboration between the pure, crystalline harp and warm, resonant voices.
This remarkable recording evokes an angelic, wintry atmosphere within an intimate, candle-lit chapel. With Candlelight Carols, Seraphic Fire masterfully interweaves original arrangements of traditional carols with modern masterpieces. Seraphic Fire is regarded as one of the preeminent chamber ensembles in the United States.
In 2012, two of their recordings, Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem and A Seraphic Fire Christmas, were nominated for GRAMMY® awards. Seraphic Fire was the only choral group in North or South America to be nominated, and the only classical ensemble in the world to receive nominations for two separate projects. Led by Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley, Seraphic Fire brings some of the finest singers and instrumentalists from around the country to perform repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant and Baroque masterpieces to newly commissioned works.
On the third volume in harmonia mundi's series Carols from the Old and New Worlds, Paul Hillier and Chamber Choir Ireland celebrate the festive season with a wide-ranging mixture of new and traditional carols. Framed by the seven 'O' antiphons for Advent, this collection features carols from Ireland, the USA, Britain, and Alpine regions, many in arrangements by Hillier himself.
Christmas
Organ by Rene Saorgin and Various (2014)
With Rene Saorgin at the historic organs of Tende and Chambery, discover the delightful noels of Balbastre and a whole collection of pastoral pieces for organ - not to mention the chimes of Chambery.
Christmas in Harvard Square by The Boys of St. Paul's Choir School, John Rutter, Sir David Willcocks and John Robinson (2014)
The Boys of St. Paul Choir School are releasing their debut international recording, Christmas in Harvard Square. The Christmas album repertoire includes 19 classic songs, which have both traditional and contemporary arrangements, including some original arrangements by Mr. John Robinson the Director of Music. It also includes some must-have renditions of Rutter & Sir David Willcocks arrangements. The school itself is uniquely one of the only boys' choir schools in the US and is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The academy has been described not as a school with a choir, but as a choir with a school. This cozy and ethereal collection celebrating The Nativity of Christ will be a timeless classic for many seasons to come.
1. Thomas gemma
2. St. Thomas honour we
3. Clangat tuba
4. Anna Mater
5. Lullay, I saw
6. O pulcherrima
7. There is no rose
8. Stella Caeli
9. Marvel not Joseph
10. Ecce quod natura
11. Ave Maria
12. Ah! My dear Son
13. Sancta Mater/Dou way Robin
14. Ah! Gentle Jesu
Having recorded more than 20 albums for ECM since the mid-80s, The Hilliard Ensemble caps its discography before retirement with a final release: Transeamus, a collection of polyphonic Carols and Motets in two, three and four parts from 15th-century England.
The British vocal ensembles very first ECM recording included music from the court of Henry VIII, and Transeamus brings their odyssey through the ages full circle. The album includes many of the groups favorite pieces from this era, including previously unrecorded items from its concert programs by the likes of John Plummer, Walter Lambe and William Cornysh. More of the albums works are by composers rendered anonymous by time, yet all of this music is rich with enduring personality.
Tenor David James says: The sweet harmonies might appear uncomplicated, but this transparency of sound creates a cumulative effect that is mesmerizing. The album ends with Ah gentle Jesu.
We know the composers name, Sheryngham, but virtually nothing else. On paper, it is a simple dialogue between Christ on the cross and a penitent sinner; however, the intensity of the music is so overwhelming that, from our experience in concert, both listener and performer are left in stunned silence.
For the first time, excerpts from the Maestros famous Baroque Christmas concertos CD with the celebrated Christmas disc he recorded with the great American soprano Leontyne Price on Decca in 1961, along with several other uplifting holiday tracks.
Presented in an attractive digi-pack with evocative photos from Herbert von Karajans snowy home in Anif, near Salzburg.
A
Christmas Caper: The Best Of Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band by Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band (2013)
Of all the festive traditions, few have stood the test of time better than the Christmas carol. Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band know this more than most, having been inspired by the music of Christmas for the past twenty-five years. Now and for the first time, the very best of these have been brought together on one album. The Best of Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band collects twenty-two tracks from across their career. Along the way you will find a mixture of the familiar and the less well known, all presented in a most unique style. With an extensive experience in folk, medieval, world and classical music between them, the singer and players guide us to exquisite places. Telling the Christmas story in a variety of ways, the likes of I Saw Three Ships, While Shepherds Watched, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and The Holly Ivy are revealed as versatile, striking pieces of music with words to match.
Christmas
with the Shepherds by Marian Consort, Rory McCleery and
Various (2014)
Delphian presents Christmas with the Shepherds - a unique album from Rory McCleery and The Marian Consort that illuminates a little-known and fascinating musical connection. Jean Mouton's 1515 motet Quaeramus cum pastoribus was hugely popular with the public and fellow composers alike. This disc features works that were inspired by this hit tune, including a mass by Cristobal de Morales and the world premiere recording of a motet to the same text by Annibale Stabile.
1. I Saw Three Ships
2. We Three Kings
3. The Holly and the Ivy
4. Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu
5. Ding Dong Merrily on High
6. The Angel Gabriel
7. In the Bleak Midwinter
8. Good King Wenceslas
9. Gaudete
10. Once in a Royal David's City
11. Veni Veni Emmanuel
12. Away in a Manger
13. In Dulci Jublio
14. The Coventry Carol
15. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
16. Silent Night
17. Corpus Christi Carol
The Mediaeval Baebes from Britain have been charming audiences now for the past 17 years on both sides of the Atlantic with their unique ethereal voices, choral music set to ancient texts and original authentic musical arrangements depicting the true lively stories of Mediaeval times.
Sing Thee Nowell
2014 | Hybrid SACD – DSD
Nowell, Nowel, Noel - on their new release, Sing thee Nowell, New York Polyphony sings of, and to, the birth of Christ in a typically sophisticated programme which fuses the ancient with the modern into a seamless whole.
Seven centuries of Christmas passes before the listener with new works composed for these performers by Michael McGlynn, Andrew Smith and John Scott alongside traditional medieval and Renaissance carols and motets by Clemens 'non Papa', Philippe Verdelot and Tomás Luis de Victoria.
The wide-ranging sequence is anchored by Richard Rodney Bennett's Five Carols, in which the sopranos Sarah Brailey and Elizabeth Baber Weaver join in celebrating 'the joyful birth' and in praising 'Mary mild', that 'maiden fair and wise'. The wondrous events related to the Christmas story and the joy they bring to mankind naturally dominate, but intimations of Christ's death on the cross also surface in the course of the disc, as in Peter Warlock's Bethlehem Down: 'they will clothe him in grave-sheets, myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown.'
Formed in 2006, New York Polyphony has rapidly emerged as one of the leading vocal chamber ensembles, applying a distinctly modern touch to repertoire that ranges from austere medieval melodies to cutting-edge contemporary compositions. Two previous recordings for BIS have received critical acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for the 2013 release Times go by Turns, interleaving masses by Byrd and Tallis with works from the 21st century.
Bach:
Christmas Oratorio by RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie fur
Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs and Johann Sebastian Bach (2014)
The Christmas Oratorio is the sublime outcome of a vast project that Bach completed between December 1734 and January 1735. This monumental fresco inspired by the history of the Nativity for narrators, soloists, choirs and orchestra comprises no fewer than six sections, each one a huge cantata. René Jacobs's acclaimed 1997 recording of the work is offered here at a special price.
Christmas carols, some of them over 700 years old, make up an important part of the great British choral tradition. English conductor Andrew Parrott researched, compiled, and recorded many of these atmospheric pieces in authentic sound with his world-famous ensembles. The result is a festive document of a unique choir culture!
Georg
Philipp Telemann: Machet die Tore weit - Cantatas for Advent and Christmas by Bruce Abel, Marielusie Mundlein-Mohr, Aldo Baldin, Heidi Riess
and Barbara Ulrich (2014)
The Carus Classics series features outstanding CD productions from Carus past library of recordings. The series has been designed exclusively by the well-known graphic artists Friedrich Forssman und Cornelia Feyll. The present Telemann recording by Günter Graulich, the founder of Carus-Verlag, is a genuine classic in the Carus repertoire. Together with the Motettenchor Stuttgart, which Graulich founded in 1951, he recorded the most significant Advent and Christmas cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann in 1979.
The Tudor Choir and Players offer a selection of holiday fare, including three British classics: Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Finzi's In terra pax, and Holst's Christmas Day.
1. Ding dong! merrily on high (arr. Charles Wood)
Mystic
Meaning
Choirs of the Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Maxine Thévenot, Director of Cathedral Music & Organist
Edmund Connolly, Stephen Tharp, Organists
William Mathias: Toccata Giocosa for organ
George Frideric Handel: Daughter of Zion
Paul Bouman: Behold the Lamb of God
Jeremy S. Bakken: Jesu, Dulcis Memoria (First Recording)
Philip Moore: I sing the birth
Philip Moore: Love of Love (First Recording)
Philip Moore: What is the crying at Jordan? (First Recording)
Philip Moore: Bethlehem, of noblest cities (First Recording)
Philip Ledger: Advent Calendar
Johannes Brahms (arr.): O Jesu, Joy of loving hearts
Robin Fullalove: Adam lay ybounden
Geoffrey Butcher: A babe lies in the cradle
Desmond Ratcliffe: Meditation on The Infant King (First Recording)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: I will sing of thy great mercies
Michael Praetorius: En natus est Emmanuel
John Joubert: Torches
Denis Bédard: Variations sur In Dulci Jubilo for organ
Maurice Duruflé: Prélude sur l'Introit de l'Épiphanie for organ
The several choirs of the Cathedral of St. John (Episcopal) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sing a program of traditional and recently composed choral music for the Christmas season and also for the Advent and Epiphany seasons that precede and follow Christmas in the calendars of liturgical churches. Three works are for pipe organ alone, and many of the choral works are accompanied by the cathedral's large pipe organ built in 2000 by the Reuter Organ Company of Lawrence, Kansas. Six works on the CD are the first recordings of the pieces.
Yule-tide music for the Celtic harp. The word yule is from an Old English word meaning Christmas, geol. Yuletide is celbrated at the time of year when light returns to the world. As the physical light returns with the barely perceptible lengthening of days, we also envision spiritual light bathing the earth with good will and community. In this spirit of global well-being, proceeds from this recording will be forwarded to an organization dedicated to enhancing world-wide service - The Krista Foundation. Rosewood Music, 2001
The music of Gregorian Chant, or plainsong is the Church’s most ancient form of chanted prayer, and perhaps its most haunting and beautiful. It can transport, delight and transform. This recording is a snapshot of how plainsong is used at Portsmouth Cathedral, from the simplest of psalms sung at weekday Evensong, a great hymn marking a major Feast Day such as Veni Creator for Pentecost, or through its use in simple motets as set here by the Cathedral’s Director of Music, David Price.
ARTHUR WILLS (PLAYED BY DAVID PRICE)
Our CD of Christmas Carols, recorded in the wonderful acoustics of Keble Chapel, are still available to buy. Recorded under the direction of Solomon Lau and Michael Papadopoulos, and the guidance of Michael Bowden, Director of Music at St. Marks' Regent, this CD is the perfect solution to that age old dilemma: what to get your loved ones for Christmas! On sale for £7 for a single copy, or £12 for two from the Lodge or the University Shop website (key in 'TrinityCDOffer' at checkout)
Tracks include:
Premiere Fantasie (Alain) - Once in royal David’s City (Gauntlett) - Away in a Manger (Jaques) - Adam lay Ybounden (Boris Ord) - Crown of Roses (Tchaikovsky) - Sing we now of Christmas (traditional) - Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ (Bach) - We three Kings (Hopkins) - The Lamb (Tavener) - Sussex Carol (traditional) - Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Brahms) - Joy to the World (Handel) Myn Liking (traditional) - Stille Nacht (Gruber) - In the bleak Midwinter (Darke) - Jesu Joy of Man’s desiring (Bach) - O Holy Night (Adam) - O come all ye faithful (Wade) - In dulci jubilo (Bach) - Toccata from Symphony No 5 (Widor)
Track listing:
1. Premiere Fantasie – Jehain Alain
2 Once in royal David’s City – H J Gauntlett (soloist Sophia MacAskil)
3 Away in a Manger – Reginald Jaques
4 Adam lay Ybounden – Boris Ord
5 Crown of Roses – P I Tchaikovsky
6 Sing we now of Christmas (French traditional)
7 Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ – J S Bach
8 We three Kings – J H Hopkins
9 The Lamb – John Tavener
10 Sussex Carol (traditional) – arr David Willcocks
11 Es ist ein Ros entsprungen – J Brahms
12 Joy to the World – G F Handel
13 Myn Liking (traditional)
14 Stille Nacht – Franz Gruber
15 In the bleak Midwinter – Harold Darke (soloists Constance Meath Baker, Alicia Ejsmond-Frey)
16 Jesu Joy of Man’s desiring – J S Bach
17 O holy Night – Adolpe Adam, arr Solomon Lau
18 O come all ye faithful – J F Wade
19 In dulci jubilo – J S Bach
20 Toccata from Symphony No 5 – C M Widor
Chapel Choir of Trinity College, Oxford
The choir spent three days recording their new CD of European Sacred Music in February 2014. The CD was recorded in the Oratory Church in Oxford, the amazing architecture of which provided a fantastic acoustic for the choir's singing. The finished CD includes many exciting and interesting pieces from all over Europe, and it will be released in November - just in time to make the perfect Christmas present for family and friends!
On
Christmas Night by Armonico Consort, Morten Lauridsen,
Franz Gruber, Ralph Blane and John Francis Wade (2014)
Buxtehude:
Complete Organ Works- Advent / Christmas / Epiphany / Lent / Annunciation /
Passion / Easter / Whitsun... by Ulrik Spang-Hanssen
and Dietrich Buxtehude (2014)
- Import
Dormi
Jesu - A Caius Christmas by Choir of Gonville &
Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber and Various (2014)
It was with typical discernment that Geoffrey Webber, director of the Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, responded to a request to put together his dream Christmas collection. Opening with Jan Sandstrom's sublime deconstruction of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen," Webber's classy choir reveals and delights in equal measure, finding space for both the Venetian lushness of Gabrieli and the distilled purity of Webern in a seasonal collection which is also sprinkled with unexpected gems of more recent provenance.
Candlelight Carols: Music for Chorus & Harp
This remarkable recording evokes an angelic, wintry atmosphere within an intimate, candle-lit chapel. With Candlelight Carols, Seraphic Fire masterfully interweaves original arrangements of traditional carols with modern masterpieces. Seraphic Fire is regarded as one of the preeminent chamber ensembles in the United States.
In 2012, two of their recordings, Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem and A Seraphic Fire Christmas, were nominated for GRAMMY® awards. Seraphic Fire was the only choral group in North or South America to be nominated, and the only classical ensemble in the world to receive nominations for two separate projects. Led by Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley, Seraphic Fire brings some of the finest singers and instrumentalists from around the country to perform repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant and Baroque masterpieces to newly commissioned works.
Carols from the Old
and New Worlds Vol.3 Hybrid SACD -
DSD, Import
(Artist, Orchestra), (Artist, Conductor), (Composer)
Christmas
Organ by Rene Saorgin and Various (2014)
Christmas in Harvard Square by The Boys of St. Paul's Choir School, John Rutter, Sir David Willcocks and John Robinson (2014)
The Boys of St. Paul Choir School are releasing their debut international recording, Christmas in Harvard Square. The Christmas album repertoire includes 19 classic songs, which have both traditional and contemporary arrangements, including some original arrangements by Mr. John Robinson the Director of Music. It also includes some must-have renditions of Rutter & Sir David Willcocks arrangements. The school itself is uniquely one of the only boys' choir schools in the US and is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The academy has been described not as a school with a choir, but as a choir with a school. This cozy and ethereal collection celebrating The Nativity of Christ will be a timeless classic for many seasons to come.
Transeamus
by Hilliard
Ensemble, Sheryngham, Lambe, Plummer and n/a (2014)
2. St. Thomas honour we
3. Clangat tuba
4. Anna Mater
5. Lullay, I saw
6. O pulcherrima
7. There is no rose
8. Stella Caeli
9. Marvel not Joseph
10. Ecce quod natura
11. Ave Maria
12. Ah! My dear Son
13. Sancta Mater/Dou way Robin
14. Ah! Gentle Jesu
Having recorded more than 20 albums for ECM since the mid-80s, The Hilliard Ensemble caps its discography before retirement with a final release: Transeamus, a collection of polyphonic Carols and Motets in two, three and four parts from 15th-century England.
The British vocal ensembles very first ECM recording included music from the court of Henry VIII, and Transeamus brings their odyssey through the ages full circle. The album includes many of the groups favorite pieces from this era, including previously unrecorded items from its concert programs by the likes of John Plummer, Walter Lambe and William Cornysh. More of the albums works are by composers rendered anonymous by time, yet all of this music is rich with enduring personality.
Tenor David James says: The sweet harmonies might appear uncomplicated, but this transparency of sound creates a cumulative effect that is mesmerizing. The album ends with Ah gentle Jesu.
We know the composers name, Sheryngham, but virtually nothing else. On paper, it is a simple dialogue between Christ on the cross and a penitent sinner; however, the intensity of the music is so overwhelming that, from our experience in concert, both listener and performer are left in stunned silence.
Karajan
- The Christmas Album
(Artist), (Composer), (Composer), & 9 more Format: Audio CD
Presented in an attractive digi-pack with evocative photos from Herbert von Karajans snowy home in Anif, near Salzburg.
A
Christmas Caper: The Best Of Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band by Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band (2013)
Christmas
with the Shepherds by Marian Consort, Rory McCleery and
Various (2014)
Delphian presents Christmas with the Shepherds - a unique album from Rory McCleery and The Marian Consort that illuminates a little-known and fascinating musical connection. Jean Mouton's 1515 motet Quaeramus cum pastoribus was hugely popular with the public and fellow composers alike. This disc features works that were inspired by this hit tune, including a mass by Cristobal de Morales and the world premiere recording of a motet to the same text by Annibale Stabile.
Of Kings & Angels
by
Mediaeval Baebes (2014)
1. I Saw Three Ships
2. We Three Kings
3. The Holly and the Ivy
4. Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu
5. Ding Dong Merrily on High
6. The Angel Gabriel
7. In the Bleak Midwinter
8. Good King Wenceslas
9. Gaudete
10. Once in a Royal David's City
11. Veni Veni Emmanuel
12. Away in a Manger
13. In Dulci Jublio
14. The Coventry Carol
15. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
16. Silent Night
17. Corpus Christi Carol
The Mediaeval Baebes from Britain have been charming audiences now for the past 17 years on both sides of the Atlantic with their unique ethereal voices, choral music set to ancient texts and original authentic musical arrangements depicting the true lively stories of Mediaeval times.
Sing Thee Nowell
2014 | Hybrid SACD – DSD Nowell, Nowel, Noel - on their new release, Sing thee Nowell, New York Polyphony sings of, and to, the birth of Christ in a typically sophisticated programme which fuses the ancient with the modern into a seamless whole.
Seven centuries of Christmas passes before the listener with new works composed for these performers by Michael McGlynn, Andrew Smith and John Scott alongside traditional medieval and Renaissance carols and motets by Clemens 'non Papa', Philippe Verdelot and Tomás Luis de Victoria.
The wide-ranging sequence is anchored by Richard Rodney Bennett's Five Carols, in which the sopranos Sarah Brailey and Elizabeth Baber Weaver join in celebrating 'the joyful birth' and in praising 'Mary mild', that 'maiden fair and wise'. The wondrous events related to the Christmas story and the joy they bring to mankind naturally dominate, but intimations of Christ's death on the cross also surface in the course of the disc, as in Peter Warlock's Bethlehem Down: 'they will clothe him in grave-sheets, myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown.'
Formed in 2006, New York Polyphony has rapidly emerged as one of the leading vocal chamber ensembles, applying a distinctly modern touch to repertoire that ranges from austere medieval melodies to cutting-edge contemporary compositions. Two previous recordings for BIS have received critical acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for the 2013 release Times go by Turns, interleaving masses by Byrd and Tallis with works from the 21st century.
Bach:
Christmas Oratorio by RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie fur
Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs and Johann Sebastian Bach (2014)
The Christmas Oratorio is the sublime outcome of a vast project that Bach completed between December 1734 and January 1735. This monumental fresco inspired by the history of the Nativity for narrators, soloists, choirs and orchestra comprises no fewer than six sections, each one a huge cantata. René Jacobs's acclaimed 1997 recording of the work is offered here at a special price.
Carol
Album - Seven Centuries of Christmas Music by Taverner
Consort, Taverner Choir,Taverner Players, Various and Andrew Parrott (2014)
Georg
Philipp Telemann: Machet die Tore weit - Cantatas for Advent and Christmas by Bruce Abel, Marielusie Mundlein-Mohr, Aldo Baldin, Heidi Riess
and Barbara Ulrich (2014)
Christmas Day: Traditional Carols For Christmas and the New Year
Tudor Choir and Players
The Tudor Choir and Players offer a selection of holiday fare, including three British classics: Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Finzi's In terra pax, and Holst's Christmas Day.
1. Ding dong! merrily on high (arr. Charles Wood)
2. I saw a fair maiden (Peter
Warlock)
3. Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (R. Vaughan Williams)
4. The holly and the ivy (arr. H. Walford Davies)
5. "Pieds en l'air" from Capriol Suite (Warlock)
6. Lullaby my Jesus (Warlock, arr. Andrew Carter)
7. Fantasia on Christmas Carols (R. Vaughan Williams)
8. A virgin most pure (arr. Wood)
9. Christmas Day (Gustav Holst)
10. A New Year carol (Benjamin Britten)
11. In the bleak midwinter (Harold Darke)
12. In terra pax (Gerald Finzi)
3. Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (R. Vaughan Williams)
4. The holly and the ivy (arr. H. Walford Davies)
5. "Pieds en l'air" from Capriol Suite (Warlock)
6. Lullaby my Jesus (Warlock, arr. Andrew Carter)
7. Fantasia on Christmas Carols (R. Vaughan Williams)
8. A virgin most pure (arr. Wood)
9. Christmas Day (Gustav Holst)
10. A New Year carol (Benjamin Britten)
11. In the bleak midwinter (Harold Darke)
12. In terra pax (Gerald Finzi)
Mystic
Meaning
Music of Advent Christmas Epiphany
Choir of the Cathedral of St. John Albuquerque NM
Maxine Thévenot, Director of Cathedral Music & Organist
Edmund Connolly, Stephen Tharp, Organists
William Mathias: Toccata Giocosa for organ
George Frideric Handel: Daughter of Zion
Paul Bouman: Behold the Lamb of God
Jeremy S. Bakken: Jesu, Dulcis Memoria (First Recording)
Philip Moore: I sing the birth
Philip Moore: Love of Love (First Recording)
Philip Moore: What is the crying at Jordan? (First Recording)
Philip Moore: Bethlehem, of noblest cities (First Recording)
Philip Ledger: Advent Calendar
Johannes Brahms (arr.): O Jesu, Joy of loving hearts
Robin Fullalove: Adam lay ybounden
Geoffrey Butcher: A babe lies in the cradle
Desmond Ratcliffe: Meditation on The Infant King (First Recording)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: I will sing of thy great mercies
Michael Praetorius: En natus est Emmanuel
John Joubert: Torches
Denis Bédard: Variations sur In Dulci Jubilo for organ
Maurice Duruflé: Prélude sur l'Introit de l'Épiphanie for organ
The several choirs of the Cathedral of St. John (Episcopal) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sing a program of traditional and recently composed choral music for the Christmas season and also for the Advent and Epiphany seasons that precede and follow Christmas in the calendars of liturgical churches. Three works are for pipe organ alone, and many of the choral works are accompanied by the cathedral's large pipe organ built in 2000 by the Reuter Organ Company of Lawrence, Kansas. Six works on the CD are the first recordings of the pieces.
Wolcum Yole CD, Original recording
Laura Zaerr(Author) Format: Audio CD
Plainsong: The Echo Of Angels by Portsmouth Cathedral
Choir, David Price, Oliver Hancock & William Wallace
- ADVENT PROSEARR. STEPHEN CLEOBURY
- HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS ESTARR. BENJAMIN BRITTEN
- VERBUM INFANS DAVID PRICE
- ECHO CAROL DAVID PRICE
- PSALM 85 ORGAN (IMPROVISED) OLIVER HANCOCK
- MISSA DE ANGELIS - KYRIE ARR. ADRIAN LUCAS
- MISSA DE ANGELIS - GLORIA ARR. ADRIAN LUCAS
- MISSA DE ANGELIS - SANCTUS & BENEDICTUS - ARR. ADRIAN LUCAS
- MISSA DE ANGELIS - AGNUS DEI - ARR. ADRIAN LUCAS
- PSALM 42 ORGAN (IMPROVISED) OLIVER HANCOCK
- LENT PROSE ARR. JOHN SCOTT
- VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS - PLAINSONG
- MISSA DEUS GENITOR ALM - ORGAN (IMPROVISED) OLIVER HANCOCK
- MISSA DEUS GENITOR ALME - SANCTUS & BENEDICTUS - ORGAN (IMPROVISED) OLIVER HANCOCK
- MISSA DEUS GENITOR ALME - AGNUS DEI - ORGAN (IMPROVISED) OLIVER HANCOCK
- BENEDICTUS - ARR. DAVID PRICE
- ADORO TE DEVOTE- ARR. DAVID PRICE
- MEDITATION ON 'ADORO TE DEV
ARTHUR WILLS (PLAYED BY DAVID PRICE)
Sing We Now of Christmas, Choir of Trinity College Oxford
Our CD of Christmas Carols, recorded in the wonderful acoustics of Keble Chapel, are still available to buy. Recorded under the direction of Solomon Lau and Michael Papadopoulos, and the guidance of Michael Bowden, Director of Music at St. Marks' Regent, this CD is the perfect solution to that age old dilemma: what to get your loved ones for Christmas! On sale for £7 for a single copy, or £12 for two from the Lodge or the University Shop website (key in 'TrinityCDOffer' at checkout)
Tracks include:
Premiere Fantasie (Alain) - Once in royal David’s City (Gauntlett) - Away in a Manger (Jaques) - Adam lay Ybounden (Boris Ord) - Crown of Roses (Tchaikovsky) - Sing we now of Christmas (traditional) - Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ (Bach) - We three Kings (Hopkins) - The Lamb (Tavener) - Sussex Carol (traditional) - Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Brahms) - Joy to the World (Handel) Myn Liking (traditional) - Stille Nacht (Gruber) - In the bleak Midwinter (Darke) - Jesu Joy of Man’s desiring (Bach) - O Holy Night (Adam) - O come all ye faithful (Wade) - In dulci jubilo (Bach) - Toccata from Symphony No 5 (Widor)
Track listing:
1. Premiere Fantasie – Jehain Alain
2 Once in royal David’s City – H J Gauntlett (soloist Sophia MacAskil)
3 Away in a Manger – Reginald Jaques
4 Adam lay Ybounden – Boris Ord
5 Crown of Roses – P I Tchaikovsky
6 Sing we now of Christmas (French traditional)
7 Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ – J S Bach
8 We three Kings – J H Hopkins
9 The Lamb – John Tavener
10 Sussex Carol (traditional) – arr David Willcocks
11 Es ist ein Ros entsprungen – J Brahms
12 Joy to the World – G F Handel
13 Myn Liking (traditional)
14 Stille Nacht – Franz Gruber
15 In the bleak Midwinter – Harold Darke (soloists Constance Meath Baker, Alicia Ejsmond-Frey)
16 Jesu Joy of Man’s desiring – J S Bach
17 O holy Night – Adolpe Adam, arr Solomon Lau
18 O come all ye faithful – J F Wade
19 In dulci jubilo – J S Bach
20 Toccata from Symphony No 5 – C M Widor
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