SACDs - Willis, R S

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Proprius

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PRSACD2035

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Release date:

30th Oct 2006

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0822359320352

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64 minutes

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SACD (download also available)

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Hybrid Multi-channel

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Julens Ljus - The Light of Christmas

Traditional Swedish Christmas songs, English carols, and more

Bohlin:	Look! Shepherds of Bethlehem
Gardner, John:	Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Gruber, F:	Stilla natt
Handel:	Tochter Zion, freue dich
Hopkins, J H:	We three Kings of Orient are
Köhler, Emmy:	Nu tandas tusen juleljus
Lauridsen:	O magnum mysterium
Mason, L:	Joy to the World
Nielsen:	Forunderligt at sige (Text: Grundtvig)
Niles:	I wonder as I wander
Nordqvist:	I Juletid Jul, jul, strålande jul (text: Edvard Evers)
Palmgren:	Hosiannah!
Praetorius, M:	Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Reger:	Mariä Wiegenlied, Op. 76 No. 52
Schubert:	Ave Maria, D839
Sibelius:	En etsi valtaa, loistoa (text: Zacharias Topelius), Op. 1 No. 4
Søraas:	Mitt hjerte alltid vanker
trad.:	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen I saw three ships Bereden väg för Herran (Folk Chorale from Boda) Nar juldagsmorgon glimmar
Widéen:	På krubbans strå (Text: Erik Gustaf Geijer, Sv. ps.34:1)
Willis, R S:	It came upon the midnight clear (Carol)

Gunilla Backman (soprano)

The Stockholm Academic Male Choir, Karin Oldrren

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Few festivals are as rich in music as Christmas. And the thirst for music at Christmas seems never to be satisfied. The Christmas message of peace and goodwill is always relevant, whether we are thinking of our 'little world', our family and friends, or look out across the 'big world'. And perhaps, in times of tumult and struggle, it is all the more important to sing songs of peace and reconciliation.

In 1917 the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged Nine Christmas Carols for the choir that he got together in the ambulance unit in which he was serving in Greece. A knowledge of this background gives an extra dimension to performing these settings. How strange the carol God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, with its message "Now to the Lord sing praises… and with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace", must have sounded as it was sung by the young soldiers in the presence of war and privations.

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Julens Ljus - The Light of Christmas

Traditional Swedish Christmas songs, English carols, and more

Lowell Mason: Joy to the World (arr. R. Sund)

Gustaf Nordqvist: I Juletid (arr. G. Widlund)

Traditional: Bereden vag for Herran (arr. G. Widlund)

George Frideric Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Part III: See, the conqu'ring hero comes! (arr. K. Oldgren)

Selim Palmgren: Hosiannah!

Michael Praetorius: Det ar en ros utsprungen (arr. G. Widlund)

Emmy Kohler: Nu tandas tusen juleljus (arr. G. Widlund)

Jean Sibelius: 5 Christmas Songs, Op. 1: No. 4. Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt, "Julvisa"

Franz Schubert: Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 52, No. 6, D. 839, "Hymne an die Jungfrau" (arr. K. Oldgren)

Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium

Lars Soraas: Mitt hjerte alltid vanker

Carl Nielsen: Hymns and Sacred Songs, FS 83: No. 1. Forunderligt och markligt (Wonderful and strange) (arr. R. Sund)

Traditional: Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements

Richard S. Willis: It Came upon a Midnight Clear (arr. N. Elkies)

John Henry Hopkins, Jr.: We Three Kings of Orient Are (arr. N. Elkies)

Folke Bohlin: Look! Shepherds of Bethlehem

Traditional: God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (arr. R. Vaughan Williams)

Traditional: I Saw three Ships (arr. R. Vaughan Williams)

John Gardner: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (arr. K. Oldgren)

Traditional: Nar juldagsmorgon glimmar (arr. H. Sund)

Ivar Wideen: Pa krubbans stra (In the Cradle straw)

Max Reger: Marias vaggsang (Mary's Lullably) (arr. K. Oldgren)

Franz Xaver Gruber: Stilla natt (Silent Night) (arr. J. Pejler)

Gustaf Nordqvist: Jul, jul stralande jul (Christmas, Radiant Christmas)

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