Britten: Christ's Nativity & Other Choral Works
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Release Date: 01 November 1995
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571168258
Release Date: 01 November 1995
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571168258
Description
This recording brings together a selection of Brittenâs choral music for Christmastide, a season much enjoyed by the composer to the end of his life and one in which he celebrated in an extraordinarily diverse manner. The earliest work is A Hymn to the Virgin, composed in 1930 to an anonymous fourteenth-century text. Christâs Nativity is a fascinating work from Brittenâs student days which is here receiving its premiere recording.
A Boy was Born has always been a central part of the repertoire. The sequence of five highly individual and virtuoso variations are set for mixed voices and boysâ choir while A Shepherdâs Carol, written in the 1940s after Brittenâs return from America reflects the easy, laid-back approach of American popular music of that period.
Tracklisting
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
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
Nicky Spence; Julius Drake
Stephen Layton: Holst Singers
Stephen Layton: Holst Singers
Stephen Layton: Holst Singers
Stephen Layton: Holst Singers
Stephen Layton: Holst Singers
Stephen Layton: Holst Singers
Stephen Layton: Holst Singers