Choir of The Queen's College Oxford, Lucy Wakeford, Laurence John & Owen Rees - A Ceremony of Carols: Britten, Praetorius, McDowall, Weir, Dove (2020) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Choir of The Queen's College Oxford, Lucy Wakeford, Laurence John, Owen Rees
- Title: A Ceremony of Carols: Britten, Praetorius, McDowall, Weir, Dove
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: Signum Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 960kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:02:41
- Total Size: 287 mb / 1.05 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Drop down, ye heavens, from above
02. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
03. Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
04. Resonet in laudibus
05. The Three Kings
06. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Procession
07. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Wolcum Yole!
08. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 There Is no Rose
09. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 That yonge child
10. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Balulalow
11. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 As dew in Aprille
12. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 This little Babe
13. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Interlude
14. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 In Freezing Winter Night
15. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Spring Carol
16. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Deo Gracias
17. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Recession
18. In dulci jubilo
19. Good-will to men, and peace on Earth
20. O virga ac diadema
21. Geborn ist Gottes Sohnelein
22. The Owl
23. Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern
24. Now may we singen
25. Puer natus in Bethlehem
The juxtaposition of old and new which lies at the heart of much Christmas music lends this recording by the mixed-voice Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford its theme. The repertoire ranges in period from Hildegard of Bingen to pieces composed during the last few years. The central work – Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols – vividly encapsulates the intersection of ancient and modern, setting medieval and Renaissance texts, and drawing on plainchant as musical inspiration, while – in its series of fresh, vivid, and sharply-etched miniatures – eschewing the sentimentality which had become attached to Christmas and its music. Three centuries earlier, such combinations of old and new were just as apparent in the vast Christmas output of Michael Praetorius, the principal Lutheran composer of his age. Through works ranging from dramatic double-choir settings to the simplest harmonisations of chorales, this recording explores Praetorius as transmitter of older Christmas texts and and melodies. The links between Praetorius’s time and ours are represented in the pairing of Praetorius’s Es ist ein Ros entsprungen and David Blackwell’s exquisite reimagining of the same carol, Lo how a rose e’er blooming. An Advent chant forms the basis of Judith Weir’s haunting Look down ye heavens from above which opens the recording, while Cecilia McDowall’s Now may we singen perfectly captures the exuberance of its medieval text and Jonathan Dove’s The Three Kings evokes the strangeness of Dorothy L. Sayers’s transformation of the story of the Magi.
01. Drop down, ye heavens, from above
02. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
03. Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
04. Resonet in laudibus
05. The Three Kings
06. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Procession
07. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Wolcum Yole!
08. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 There Is no Rose
09. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 That yonge child
10. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Balulalow
11. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 As dew in Aprille
12. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 This little Babe
13. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Interlude
14. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 In Freezing Winter Night
15. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Spring Carol
16. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Deo Gracias
17. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Recession
18. In dulci jubilo
19. Good-will to men, and peace on Earth
20. O virga ac diadema
21. Geborn ist Gottes Sohnelein
22. The Owl
23. Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern
24. Now may we singen
25. Puer natus in Bethlehem
The juxtaposition of old and new which lies at the heart of much Christmas music lends this recording by the mixed-voice Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford its theme. The repertoire ranges in period from Hildegard of Bingen to pieces composed during the last few years. The central work – Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols – vividly encapsulates the intersection of ancient and modern, setting medieval and Renaissance texts, and drawing on plainchant as musical inspiration, while – in its series of fresh, vivid, and sharply-etched miniatures – eschewing the sentimentality which had become attached to Christmas and its music. Three centuries earlier, such combinations of old and new were just as apparent in the vast Christmas output of Michael Praetorius, the principal Lutheran composer of his age. Through works ranging from dramatic double-choir settings to the simplest harmonisations of chorales, this recording explores Praetorius as transmitter of older Christmas texts and and melodies. The links between Praetorius’s time and ours are represented in the pairing of Praetorius’s Es ist ein Ros entsprungen and David Blackwell’s exquisite reimagining of the same carol, Lo how a rose e’er blooming. An Advent chant forms the basis of Judith Weir’s haunting Look down ye heavens from above which opens the recording, while Cecilia McDowall’s Now may we singen perfectly captures the exuberance of its medieval text and Jonathan Dove’s The Three Kings evokes the strangeness of Dorothy L. Sayers’s transformation of the story of the Magi.
Year 2020 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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