A Few Christmas Works included in Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge Recording of Annabel Rooney Choral Music

 

A Few Christmas Works included in Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge Recording of Annabel Rooney Choral Music

‘Like to a flower’ is the second album dedicated to the music of Annabel Rooney, following the success of ‘As a seed bursts forth’, released in 2019. These beautiful and approachable settings of traditional texts bring a fresh and original voice to the growing repertoire of sacred choral music by female composers. 

The disc opens with a ‘mini’ Evensong: Introit; Preces; Psalm; Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Responses and Anthem, together with a Mass, anthems, and motets for all the seasons of the church’s year.

Annabel Rooney read music at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and continued her studies in Cambridge with postgraduate research on eighteenth-century opera. Rooney turned to composition comparatively late, when her youngest child was starting school, mostly writing choral music.

Her music has been performed by many choirs in the UK and overseas, including Exeter and Ely Cathedrals, Bath Abbey, York Minster, the Chapel Royal, and King’s Voices and broadcast on Choral Evensong on Radio 3. Her music is published by Selah, and Oxford University Press, notably in the ‘Breath of Song’ anthology of music by women composers.

Editor's note: Though not a Christmas album, this recording contains the winter piece "'Tis  winter now," and the Christmas piece "Love Came Down at Christmas."

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