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Quadriga Consort - Winter's Delights - Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles (2015) [Hi-Res]

Quadriga Consort - Winter's Delights - Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles (2015) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Quadriga Consort

  • Title: Winter's Delights - Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles
  • Year Of Release: 2015
  • Label: deutsche harmonia mundi
  • Genre: Classical; Celtic; World; Folk
  • Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/96kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 58:53 min
  • Total Size: 328 MB; 1.11 GB
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It's rare that a group manages to inject something really new into the genre of the Christmas/winter season album, but the Quadriga Consort does so here. The basic musical material is novel and appealing enough: a mixture of traditional melodies from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and even Nova Scotia, a few well known, but mostly new for average listeners (and the Gaelic-language ones are left untranslated). But what's really striking are the arrangements, by director and keyboardist Nikolaus Newerkla, who also composed a pair of individual pieces. The ensemble itself, consisting of voice, recorders, low strings, and keyboard, is unremarkable, although the vibrandoneon (a melodica-like instrument) played by Newerkla is something new. It's what's done with the instruments and the melodies that will be unlike anything you've heard before. It's hard to pick out a single piece to sample because the charm of this music lies in the variety of treatments, but plunge in with the opening The First Nowell, with its mixture of modes. That's typical in that Newerkla has rethought every single piece (often the rethinking is rhythmic, with the harpsichord playing an utterly unfamiliar role), but has done so in such a way as to remain true to the medieval and traditional origins of the songs. You'll feel not only that you've never heard such a thing before, but also somehow that it makes perfect sense. The extraordinary sound from Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (from the Salzhof in the Upper Austrian town of Freistadt) is an added attraction, as is the ethereal singing of South African pop vocalist Elisabeth Kaplan (who has since left the group). Winter's Delights indeed, and a major release in its field.

Tracklist:
01. Quadriga Consort - The First Nowell (English Traditional) (4:11)
02. Quadriga Consort - Gloomy Winter (Scottish Traditional) (1:19)
03. Quadriga Consort - Leanabh an Àigh (The Blessed Child) (Scottish Traditional) (3:40)
04. Quadriga Consort - Tune No. 172 (Irish Traditional) (3:19)
05. Quadriga Consort - The Three Kings (English Traditional) (3:07)
06. Quadriga Consort - On This Day (English Traditional) (4:40)
07. Quadriga Consort - Noël Nouvelet - Sing We Now of Christmas (French/ English Traditional) (3:20)
08. Quadriga Consort - Sweet Baby, Sleep! (4:01)
09. Quadriga Consort - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (English Traditional) (3:38)
10. Quadriga Consort - The Traveller Benighted in Snow (Scottish Traditional) (3:31)
12. Quadriga Consort - Fare Thee Well, Cold Winter (English Traditional) (4:16)
13. Quadriga Consort - Blessed be that Maid Marie (English Traditional) (4:00)
14. Quadriga Consort - A Merry Christmas (Irish Traditional) (2:00)
15. Quadriga Consort - Winter's Delights (3:23)
16. Quadriga Consort - Gloucestershire Wassail (English Traditional) (2:57)
17. Quadriga Consort - The Stormy Scenes of Winter (Nova Scotia Traditional) (4:25)

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  • nilesh65
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Thank you so much!!!!!
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