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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: RES10159 (EAN: 5060262790632) | 1 CD | DDD Released in: 2015
- LABEL:
- Resonus Classics
- Collection:
- Christmas Music
- Subcollection:
- Choir
- Composers:
- BENNETT, Richard Rodney | DAVIES, Tansy | FOX, Christopher | LEFANU, Nicola | MacMILLAN, James | TAVENER, John
- Ensembles:
- St. Catharine's Girls' Choir | The Choirs of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
- Conductors:
- WICKHAM, Edward
- Other info:
The Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge & Edward Wickham (conductor)
The two resident choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and their director Edward Wickham, join together to record this stunning and evocative selection of contemporary Christmas carols. The college can boast having the first and only college-based Oxbridge girls' choir, and its own beautiful chapel in the very heart of Cambridge, provided the venue for this debut recording of the recently founded St Catharine's Girls' Choir.
| 1. | Richard Rodney Bennett: The holly and the ivy | 4:17 | | | 2. | Nicola Lefanu: Saint Ita's Lullaby | 2:51 | | | 3. | Matthew Larkin: Adam lay ybounden | 2:57 | | | 4. | Giles Swayne: There is no rose | 5:33 | | | 5. | Tansy Davies: Christmas Eve | 6:19 | | | 6. | James MacMillan: Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex eva | 6:25 | | | 7. | Roxanna Panufnik: Alma redemptoris mater | 3:26 | | | 8. | Cecilia McDowall: Before the paling of the stars | 4:26 | | | 9. | John Tavener: A Cradle Song | 4:17 | | | 10. | Christopher Fox: A Dream of Winter: I. Digging | 1:37 | | | 11. | Christopher Fox: A Dream of Winter: II. Swedes | 2:32 | | | 12. | Christopher Fox: A Dream of Winter: III. Thaw | 1:07 | | | 13. | Christopher Fox: A Dream of Winter: IV. Tall nettles | 1:19 | | | 14. | Kerry Andrew: Hevene Quene | 3:39 | | | 15. | Stevie Wishart: Three Carols: I. Te Deum Laudamus | 3:17 | | | 16. | Stevie Wishart: Three Carols: II. Let's be merry as bird on berry | 5:10 | | | 17. | Stevie Wishart: Three Carols: III. Lullaby for Freya | 4:21 | | | 18. | Sally Beamish: In the stillness | 2:19 | | Joined by the student choir, the album features premieres from such composers as Richard Rodney Bennett, Roxanna Panufnik, Cecilia McDowall and John Tavener. It also includes works specially written for the Girls' Choir by Stevie Wishart and Christopher Fox.
‘St Catharine’s […] acquit themselves well in some tricky music in the lustrous wood surroundings of the college’s little chapel’
Gramophone
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