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Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers

Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, Ensemble La Nef

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Format: CD

Cat No: AV2494

Release Date:  28 January 2022

Label:  Avie

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0822252249422

Genres:  Classical  Holiday  

  • Description

    "Oikan ains Bethlehem" - with these Gaelic words, a candle is lit, a procession is launched, and a haunting Christmas journey unfolds. Sacrum Mysterium, Apollo's Fire's hugely popular Celtic Christmas program, which premiered in six sold-out concerts in their home base of Cleveland in December 2011.

    Long before Christianity took hold in Scotland and Ireland, the ancient Celts celebrated the Winter Solstice and the coming of light and hope. The echoes of Paganism still resounded in the 13th and 14th centuries, when faithful Scots sang the Vespers of St. Kentigern, Patron Saint of Glasgow. Jeannette Sorrells new celebration of Celtic artistic traditions interweaves selections from the medieval Vespers of St. Kentigern with ancient pagan carols and popular tunes from 17th-century Welsh and Scottish manuscripts for lute and harp. Joyous fiddle tunes and Irish dances burst forth against the vivid backdrop of the unfolding Christ story. The colorful sounds of antiphonal bagpipes, archlute, harp, percussion, fiddles and recorders are blended in musical arrangements by Sylvain Bergeron and Sorrell. The early-music ensemble La Nef of Montreal joins Apollos Fire for this international collaboration featuring the radiant Canadian soprano Meredith Hall.

    Sacrum Mysterium joins Apollo's Fire's critically acclaimed, Billboard chart topping discography on AVIE.

    Note: A Limited Edition CD was released with a bonus DVD (AV2269), which is no longer available.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Oikan ayns Bethlehem (The Babe in Bethlehem) (Processional, Manx Gaelic Carol)
      • 2. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Duan Nollaig (Scottish Gaelic Carol, From the Vespers of St. Kentigern, Patron Saint of Glasgow)
      • 3. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Deus in adjutorium - Alleluia (Scottish Gaelic Carol, From the Vespers of St. Kentigern, Patron Saint of Glasgow)
      • 4. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Responsorium - Gloria Patri
      • 5. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Hymnus, Iste confessor Domini
      • 6. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Alleluia
      • 7. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", The Road to Lisdoonvarna (Tradtional Irish Jig)
      • 8. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Veni, veni, Emmanuel (12th-Century Carol)
      • 9. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Nowell, Nowell, Tydings Trew (15th-Century Carol)
      • 10. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", No‘l nouvelet (15th-century French/Breton carol, Oxford English Text)
      • 11. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night) (Traditional English)
      • 12. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Come, My Children Dere (17th Century Scottish Carol)
      • 13. Sacrum Mysterium: Part I "A Light in the Darkness", Wat ye What I Got Yestreen (Skene MS, Scottish, 1715)
      • 14. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song og Mary", Taladh Chriosda (Christ Child's Lullaby) (Scottish Gaelic Lullaby)
      • 15. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", Hodie, Christus natus est (Gregorian Antiphon to the Magnificat, Vespers for Christmas Day)
      • 16. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", Magnificat anima mea (Gregorian Antiphon to the Magnificat, Vespers for Christmas Day)
      • 17. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", Antiphon de Maria ad Vesperas - Benedicamus (Gregorian Antiphon to the Magnificat, Vespers for Christmas Day)
      • 18. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", All Songs of Adam, Sing Nowell! (Tune from Forbes, Songs & Fancies, Aberdeen, 1662)
      • 19. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", What Child Is This? (Tune My Lagan Love, Traditional Irish Air)
      • 20. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", Usheg veg ruy (Little Red Bird) (Manx Gaelic lullaby)
      • 21. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", O'Carolan's Cup (Manx Gaelic lullaby)
      • 22. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", O Carolan's Favorite Jig
      • 23. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", At Work on the Land / Tatter Jack Walsh
      • 24. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", The Seven Rejoyces of Mary (Traditional Irish Carol)
      • 25. Sacrum Mysterium: Part II "Song of Mary", Postlude, Christmas Eve (Irish Reel)