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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: GMCD7226 (EAN: 795754722628) | 1 CD | DDD Publi: 2001
- LABEL:
- Guild GmbH
- Subcollection:
- Choral and Organ
- Compositeurs:
- BERKELEY, Lennox | BRUCKNER, Anton | CORNELIUS, Peter | DARKE, Harold Edwin | GAUNTLETT, Henry John | GIGOUT, Eugene | HOWELLS, Herbert Norman | IRELAND, John | LEIGHTON, Kenneth | PALESTRINA, Giovanni Perluigi Da | POULENC, Francis | VICTORIA, Tomás Luis de | VILLETTE, Pierre | WARLOCK, Peter
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Interprètes:
- SMITH, Philip (organ)
- Orchestre
- The Choir of Lincoln College Oxford
- Chef d'orchestre:
- LYDON, Tom
- Pour plus amples dtails:
Christopher Eastwood plays the organ for In The Bleak Midwinter, and conducts The Three Kings.
Mark Williams (A Spotless Rose)
Rebecca Willcox (In The Bleak Midwinter)
William Tallon (In The Bleak Midwinter)
Sylvia Garnsey (Coventry Carol, Once In Royal)
Thomas Lydon (Three Kings)
Poulenc: Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel
Poulenc’s religious music, while expressing perfectly his profound Catholic faith, was always closely bound up with his relationships with friends and lovers. He had been catapulted back to the church in 1936 by the death in appalling circumstances of the composer Pierre-Octave Ferroud. His great opera Dialogues des Carmelites was deeply affected by the illness and death of his lover Lucien Roubert. These four exquisite miniatures seem to have been written, between November 1951 and May 1952, at least in part as gifts for their dedicatees: indeed they are such private pieces that no proper record exists of their first performance. What may have been their premiere was given, rather incongruously, in Madrid by the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Poulenc dedicated the first of them, a dark, tender setting of "O Magnum Mysterium", to the conductor of that performance, Felix de Nobel. The gentle second motet "Quem Vidistis Pastores" was a tribute to one of Poulenc’s closest woman friends, Simone Girard. She was the secretary of the Avignon Concerts Society and by all accounts an indefatigable organiser and fine amateur pianist. To Poulenc she was indispensable. In a letter of 1951, in which he offers her the "Quem Vidistis", he tells her "You have the ultimate intelligence - quite simply that of the heart, a sentiment surely appropriate to this evocation of the simple shepherds seeing the star over Bethlehem. The set is completed by a setting, marked "Calme et doux", of "Videntes Stellam", and an exultant "Hodie Christus Natus Est" which seems to be made up entirely of fanfares.
| GAUNTLETT, Henry John (1805-1876) | | | 1. | Once in Royal David's City -)1-5 harmonised by A.H. Mann / Descant and organ part by David Willcocks | 4:59 | | | BERKELEY, Lennox (1903-1989) | | | 2. | I Sing of a Maiden | 2:59 | | | BRUCKNER, Anton (1824-1896) | | | 3. | Virga Jesse | 4:03 | | | HOWELLS, Herbert Norman (1892-1983) | | | 4. | A Spotless Rose | 3:14 | | | IRELAND, John (1879-1962) | | | 5. | The Holy Boy, ORGAN SOLO | 2:30 | | | POULENC, Francis (1899-1963) | | | Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël | | | 6. | O Magnum Mysterium | 3:29 | | | 7. | Quem Vidistis Pastores | 3:07 | | | 8. | Videntes Stellam | 3:16 | | | 9. | Hodie Christus Natus Est | 2:02 | | | VICTORIA, Tomás Luis de (1548-1611) | | | 10. | O Magnum Mysterium | 3:24 | | | LEIGHTON, Kenneth (1929-1988) | | | 11. | Coventry Carol | 3:32 | | | 12. | Away in a Manger - Traditional Normandy tune arr: Reginald Jacques | 2:27 | | | PALESTRINA, Giovanni Perluigi Da (1525/6-1594) | | | 13. | Hodie Christus Natus Est | 2:15 | | | VILLETTE, Pierre (1926-1998) | | | 14. | O Magnum Mysterium | 4:37 | | | GIGOUT, Eugene (1844-1925) | | | 15. | Rhapsodie sur des Noëls ORGAN SOLO | 6:24 | | | 16. | Unto us is born a Son - Tune from'Piae Cantiones'1582 arr :Willcocks | 2:22 | | | CORNELIUS, Peter (1824-1874) | | | 17. | The Three Kings - arr: Sir Ivor Atkins | 2:43 | | | DARKE, Harold Edwin (1888-1976) | | | 18. | In the Bleak Midwinter | 4:47 | | | WARLOCK, Peter (1894-1930) | | | 19. | Bethlehem Down | 4:19 | | | 20. | O Come, All Ye Faithful - arr: David Willcocks | 5:52 | |
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