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Release Date: 14 November 2025
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343155
Composer/Series: Toby Ward - NOWEL
Description
Christmas comes in new and unexpected guises - like last leaf's fall, in Rowan Williams's poem Advent Calendar. Following three acclaimed Delphian recordings of Tudor music, Toby Ward and Ensemble Pro Victoria bring fresh, contemporary colours to the seasons of Advent and Christmas; the mood is quiet anticipation, guarded joy, sometimes even fear and uncertainty, as the Virgin - the spotless Rose at the still centre of it all - sings her son to sleep amidst death and persecution. Williams narrates the Nativity story, around which the choir weave Hugo Distler's searching polyphonic variations; Piers Connor Kennedy's Nowel el el for harp and just six men's voices is an intimate companion piece - or contrast - to Britten's famous carol cycle, and has its first recording here by the group for which it was written.
Ensemble Pro Victoria
The Hermes Experiment
Lotte Betts-Dean, Dimitris Soukaras
Helen Grime Chamber Music
Harriet Burns, Ian Tindale
Duo Concertante: Nancy Dahn & Timothy Steeves
Kantos Chamber Choir | Ellie Slorach
Bojan Cicic | The Illyria Consort
Vincent Dumestre; Le Poeme Harmonique; Charlotte La Thrope; Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian; Hugo Hymas; T
The Edison Singers; Noel Edison
Sumi Hwang; Denzil Delaere; Thomas Oliemans; Elena Tsallagova; Benjamin Bruns; Groot Omroepkoor; Ma
Sophie Klussmann; Josette Micheler; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Rundfunkchor Berlin; Kinderc
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Mendellsohn Choir of Pittsburgh; Westminster Choir; F. Murray Abraha
Nicolo Balducci; Logan Lopez Gonzalez; Stefan Plewniak; Orchestre de l'Opera Royal
Gaetan Jarry; Marguerite Louise
Ensemble Pro Victoria
