Release Date: 29 September 2016
Label: Opus Arte - Cd / Opus Arte
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 809478090229
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: On Christmas Night
Description
The acclaimed Magdalen College Choir celebrates the diversity of the twentieth-century English carol repertoire in a programme that combines well-loved standards and innovative choir favourites ranging in emotion from quiet contemplation to festive joy. The selection of carols and organ solos, led by director and organist Daniel Hyde, culminates in Ralph Vaughan Williams's celebrated Fantasia on Christmas Carols with renowned baritone Roderick Williams in the solo part.Works1 People look East (Christopher Steel) 3.142 Chorale Prelude Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Op.122 No.8 (Johannes Brahms) 2.483 Out of your sleep (Robin Nelson) 2.444 View me, Lord (Richard H. Lloyd) 2.425 Chorale Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 (Johann Sebastian Bach) 4.036 A babe is born (William Mathias) 3.217 Rocking (trad., arr. Edward Higginbottom) 2.178 Variations on Il est né le divin enfant (Marcel Dupré) 4.029 There is no rose (John Joubert) 2.2210 O Little Town of Bethlehem(Henry Walford Davies) 4.3311 A Hymn to the Virgin (Benjamin Britten) 3.0712 Noël nouvelet (trad., arr. Stephen Jackson) 4.3013 In the bleak midwinter (Harold Darke) 4.3014 Prelude on The holly and the ivy (Herbert Sumsion) 4.3315 Bethlehem Down (Peter Warlock) 4.2416 Shepherd s Pipe Carol (John Rutter) 3.0917 Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Ralph Vaughan Williams) 12.41CastRoderick Williams (Baritone)Alexander Berry (Organ (tr 18))Anna Lapwood (Organ (tr 1, 7, 11, 13))William Fox (Organ (tr 4, 14, 17))Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford; Daniel HydeProductionCompany: Choir of Magdalen College, OxfordDisc InformationCatalogue Number: OACD9022DDate of Performance: 2016Running Time: 69 minutesSound: 16bit/44.1khz - 24bit/96khzLabel: Opus Arte
Tracklisting
Yanowsky/Acosta
Williams/Magdalen Choir/Hyde
Watson/Roh Orch/Briskin
Watson/Roh Orch/Briskin
Walker:Baillieu
Various
Various
Various
