Signum Releases Long-Awaited Joanna Forbes L'Estrange's Album with Christmas and Winter Themes

 

Signum Releases Long-Awaited Joanna Forbes L'Estrange's Album with Christmas and Winter Themes

Editor's note: Description below is the label's own.

Following her first album on Signum Classics, "Winter Light" is an album of works (complete with some world premiere recordings and new arrangements) celebrating the season of Winter, as well as Christmas and Advent by composer Joanna Forbes L’Estrange. 

London Voices under Ben Parry.

The common themes linking all 18 tracks are of light triumphing over darkness, good overcoming evil and, ultimately, love conquering all. 

The first half of the album tells the Christmas story, and the second takes on a different tone; veering towards jazz and folk styles. Jo’s wish is to introduce choirs to some new Winter and Christmas-themed pieces which they might like to add to their own repertoire.

01 Advent ‘O’ Carol

02 Isaiah’s Prophecy
03 I Will Hold Him
04 O Virgo Virginum
05 Carol of the Crib
06 Winter Light
07 Jesus Christ is Born Today
08 In the Bleak Midwinter
09 Love Came Down
10 Song of the Shepherds
11 A Story of Light
12 A Present for the Future
13 The Three Wise Women
14 Hibernation (Winter Songs)
15 Reality Check (Winter Songs)
16 Presence (Winter Songs)
17 Green Christmas
18 Spring Will Come Again
19 Auld Lang Syne

Release: October 24, 2024

Winter Light - Signum Records