A Light is Coming

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Release Date: 27th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: ROP6109
Label: Rondeau
Length: 50 minutes

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Maierhofer: Es naht ein Licht

Work length2:27

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

trad.: O come, o come, Emmanuel

Work length3:45

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

trad.: In Dulci Jubilo

Work length2:16

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Excerpt, Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248

Work length1:20

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Wie soll ich dich empfangen

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Josquin: Tu solus qui facis mirabilia

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Hammerschmidt: Machet die Tore weit

Work length1:55

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Gruber, F: Stille Nacht

Work length3:24

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

trad.: Coventry Carol

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Raphael, G: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Praetorius, M: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Hollmann: Weihnachten

Work length2:09

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Nagel, W: Schöne Nacht

Work length1:58

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

trad.: The 12 Days of Christmas

Work length4:18

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Pierpont: Jingle Bells

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Brackett, J: Simple Gifts

Work length2:13

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

Giallombardo: Sure on This Shining Night

Work length6:12

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Octavians
Recorded: 6-11 January; 18-19 August 2015
Recording Venue: Burgerhaus, Hohenmolsen, Germany

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The Ensemble Octavians – all former singers with the boys’ choir of the Jena Philharmonie – have recorded a musical Christmas gift with their current CD ‘A Light is Coming’ that offers well-known and unknown songs from the festival of festivals.

The young singers noticed in their concerts that there is a special synergy that emerges between themselves and their audience, particularly during these selected arrangements – they subsequently put together a personal programme in the form of this CD repertoire. It combines into a poignant whole the mysticism of the pending birth of Jesus with the wonder at the child in the manger, and finally, the exuberant joy in connection with this ‘birthday party’.

From moving verses highlighting the Christmas festival, to bible texts set to music, to rather secular contemplations – the entire spectrum of Christmas vocal music is represented here. The fact that the pieces are arranged for up to eight-voice men’s choir allows us to enjoy old favourites such as ‘Maria durch ein Dornwald ging’ or ‘Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht’ in a completely new way.

Atmospheric tones sound in the adaptation of the Praetorius arrangement of ‘Es ist ein Ros entsprungen’ by Jan Sandström or the motet ‘Tu solus qui facis mirabilia’ by Josquin Desprez and festive chords with Andreas Hammerschmidt’s famous ‘Machet die Tore weit’.

Adaptations by and for the legendary King’s Singers round out the Octavians’ repertoire both atmospherically and joyously, and focus the listener’s attention away from the hustle and bustle of Christmas to the child in the manger.

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