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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | A Winter’s LightA Christmas Collection
The Vasari Singers’ annual carol concerts always provide a warming blend of traditional favourites and less well-known music from all periods and styles. Here, joyous and masterful 16th-century polyphony sits alongside eternally popular Victorian carols, and exquisitely crafted settings by Howells and Walford Davies join works as recent as Gabriel Jackson’s The Christ-child. Bob Chilcott magically superimposes traditional carols with entrancing new material, and no Vasari Christmas would be complete without some close harmony Swingle singing. The Vasari Singers have also recorded Gabriel Jackson’s Requiem (8573049). The Vasari Singers’ Great British Anthems [8572102] was described as “essential listening” by Gramophone. The mixture of moving beauty and entertaining good humour in this programme makes it a disc which is sure to appeal to a very wide audience this and every festive season. Founded in 1980, Vasari Singers is among the leading chamber choirs in Britain, performing music ranging from Renaissance to contemporary. The choir performs regularly in London as well as visiting many of England’s cathedrals to sing services, with recent trips to Canterbury, Salisbury, Bath and Ripon. The choir and Jeremy Backhouse are deeply committed to contemporary music and have commissioned over twenty works since 2000, including works by Francis Pott and Gabriel Jackson. “Rathbone's energetically bouncing arrangement of Gabriel's Message is a good place to sample the Vasari Singers' warmly engaged performances” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 *** “I found [the Gibbs] utterly beguiling and count it as a real discovery...The Vasari Singers always close their Christmas concerts with some seasonal sweetmeats, as they do here...the standard of singing throughout the programme is very high indeed – as we’ve come to expect from this fine ensemble.” MusicWeb International, November 2012 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Glad TidingsCarols for Christmas
anon.: | There is no rose | Davies, Walford: | O Little Town of Bethlehem | Grechaninov: | Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant, Op. 34 No. 1 "Nïne otpushchayeshï" | Kalinnikov, Viktor: | Bogoroditse Devo 'Rejoice, O Virgin', Op. 17 Lord, Now Lettest Thou (Nine Otpushchayeshi) | Poston: | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Praetorius, M: | Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen | Rachmaninov: | Bogorodice Devo Hymn of the Cherubim | Scheidt: | In dulci jubilo | Tavener: | A Nativity | Tchaikovsky: | Dostoino Yest | trad.: | Gabriel's Message ('The angel Gabriel from heaven came') Away in a manger trad. Normandy tune, arr. R Jacques Angels from the Realms Of Glory Cherry Tree Carol Quem pastores laudavere O little one sweet Nowell, nowell, Tydinge trew Gaudete It came upon the midnight clear | Victoria: | Ave Maria | Wade: | O come, all ye faithful |
Singscape, Sarah Tenant-Flowers Heavenly voices raised in honour of the Christmas season. Inspirational choral music for Christmas from one of England's finest choirs in a programme chosen from some of the greatest church music of the past. This diverse programme brings together many musical styles and traditions, from the clarity and precision of medieval carols to the emotional intensity of choral music for the Russian Orthodox church. The music varies from quiet, still pieces to huge, exciting crescendos of sound. | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Brebeuf: | The Huron Carol | Britten: | A Hymn to the Virgin | Davies, Walford: | O Little Town of Bethlehem | Evans, Robert: | Ring-a the News | Gauntlett: | Once in Royal David's city | Gruber, F: | Stille Nacht | Holst: | In the Bleak Mid-winter (Cranham) | Honegger: | Laudate Dominum | Kirkpatrick: | Away in a Manger | Mason, L: | Joy to the World | Mendelssohn: | Hark! the herald angels sing | Niles: | I wonder as I wander (arr. A. Warrell) | Pearsall: | In dulci jubilo | Poston: | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Poulenc: | Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël Elora Festival Singers, Noel Edison | Praetorius, M: | Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen | Rutter: | What sweeter music | Tavener: | God is With Us (A Christmas Proclamation) | trad.: | Cherry Tree Carol Sing Aloud Joys seven Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head O little one sweet Rocking Coventry Carol As I Outrode Unto us is born a Son Jauchzet, ihr Himmel Deck the Hall The Infant King (Sing Lullaby) Puer nobis nascitur Little Jesus, sweetly sleep ('Rocking') Gloucester Wassail (Wassail, wassail all over the town) Quem pastores laudavere The Virgin Mary had a baby boy King Jesus hath a Garden Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day The Linden Tree Carol Star in the South | Wade: | O come, all ye faithful | Willan: | The Three Kings |
Raymond Johnston (organ), Lynton Atkinson (tenor), Margaret Burdett (soprano), Cecily Atkinson (alto), Jonathan Prentice (bass), Nigel Perrin (choirmaster), Michael Bloss (organ) Worcester Cathedral Choir, German Boys Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Donald Hunt, Peter Breiner | |
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The Plaxtol Scholars, Marius Carboni Letting the voices of praise resound is just what this CD does. Performing some lesser known carols and some new ones the Plaxtol Scholars bring us warmly into the world of Christmas. The choir itself visits cathedrals the length and breadth of the land performing services at times when the local cathedral choir is taking a break. So come with us into that world and celebrate the birth of the Christ child. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | When He is KingMusic for Christmas
| | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | St. Albans NowellMusic for Christmas
Simon Johnson (organ) St Albans Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lucas | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Bevan: | There's a wideness in God's mercy (Corvedale) | Davies, Walford: | O Little Town of Bethlehem God be in my head | Ewing, A: | Jerusalem the golden | Gibbons, O: | Jesu, grant me this, I pray Drop, drop, slow tears | Holst: | I Vow to Thee, My Country | Parry: | Jerusalem Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton) | Scholefield: | The Day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended (St Clement) | Schutte: | I, the Lord of sea and sky | Stanfield: | Sweet Sacrament Divine | Terry, R: | Hark what a sound | Thrupp: | Brightest and best are the sons of the morning | trad.: | This is the truth sent from above O Waly, Waly ('The Water is Wide') Sung as 'When I survey the wondrous Cross' Lord of all hopefulness (Slane) Above the moon earth rises I would be true, tune from County Derry (solo treble) Love's redeeming work is done |
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| |  | Christmas Carols
| | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | CelebrationChristmas Fanfares and Carols
| | Readings: Robert Bridges, Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913 Shakespeare, Hamlet, Marcello's Speech (Act 1, Sc. 1) Dylan Thomas, Memories of Christmas (extract) Thomas Hardy, The Oxen Saunders Lewis, Carol (Amlyn ac Amig) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (extract) Laurie Lee, Christmas Landscape | Arthur: | Tua Bethlem Dref | Davies, Walford: | O Little Town of Bethlehem | Gardner, John: | Tomorrow shall be my dancing day | Gauntlett: | Once in Royal David's city | Hoddinott: | Fendigaid Nos | Howells: | Here is the Little Door | Lewis, G: | Tawel Nos | Mathias: | Bell Carol Sweet Was the Song | Mendelssohn: | Hark! the herald angels sing | Poston: | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | trad.: | Mary had a baby Christmas Night The First Nowell De Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Still, still, still Ar fore dydd Nadolig (traditional Welsh) | Wade: | O come, all ye faithful |
Aled Jones (readings) BBC Welsh Chorus, Fanfare Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards, John Hugh Thomas, Lt. Col. P. Hannam, BEM “Equally Celtic (as the Chieftains) and equally Christmassy is Celebration Fanfares and Carols (Nimbus): the BBC Welsh Chorus sings such vernacular carols as the regal "Tua Bethlem Dref" and "Tawal Nos", a lovely variation on Silent Night.” Newsweek | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Christmas from Gloucester
Aston, P: | There is no rose | Davies, Walford: | O Little Town of Bethlehem | Gauntlett: | Once in Royal David's city arr Willcocks | Goss, J: | See amid the winter's snow | Gruber, F: | Silent Night arr Blatchly | Hadley, P: | I sing of a maiden | Head, M: | The Three Mummers | Hendrie: | As I outrode this enderes night | Howells: | Sing Lullaby | Hyslop: | A carol of praise | Ireland: | A New Year Carol | Leighton: | A Hymn of the Nativity | Sanders, J D: | Tomorrow shall be my dancing day Carol for Today | Tavener: | The Lamb | trad.: | Ding dong! merrily on high C16 French tune, (harm. Wood) Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing? arr Sander Blessed be that maid Mary arr Sanders O little one sweet German tune, (harm. Bach) It came upon the midnight clear Eng.Trad, (arr Sullivan/Willcocks) |
Mark Lee (organ) Gloucester Cathedral Choir, John Sanders This excellent collection of 20 Christmas Carols, some composed and arranged especially for Gloucester and digitally recorded there in the 1990s, is now made fully available for all to enjoy. | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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