Release Date: 01 October 2003
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571174433
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Nativity - Christmas Music from Georgian England
Description
As the season of turkey and stuffing looms in our minds, there could be no more homey a disc for Christmas than this unusual collection championing the village genius of local composers, whose settings of carols and hymns kept the congregations warm all those years ago—a time when the commercial excesses of today's Christmas were unknown. Modern cliches about community values have nothing in comparison to the humble pride and unity of villagers and townsfolk who gathered to sing settings that were the labour of love and skill on the part of the local composer or choirmaster ... or even excise officer! The foibles and fondness of community life combine here with all manner of interesting tastes in compositional technique, be it idiosyncratic fugal treatment or instrumentation designed to keep busy whatever musicians could be mustered. The organ on the recording dates from 1789 and the old temperament is used.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Tomas Vrana, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Gabor Kali
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Riccardo Chailly
La Monnaie Chorus; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra; Kazushi Ono; Jessica Niles; Lisa Willems; Sandrin
Kammerorchester Basel; Giovanni Antonini
Jascha Horenstein
Francois Leleux, Lisa Batiashvili, HR-Sinfonieorchester, Andres Orozco-Estrada
Daniel Ottensamer, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Christoph Traxler, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, St
Concerto Copenhagen, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tonu Kaljuste
