Fawcett: Strike! Seraphs, strike your harps of gold

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The English Orpheus 49 - Nativity

The English Orpheus 49 - Nativity

Christmas Music from Georgian England


Adams, T:

Variations on Adeste Fideles

anon.:

Light of those whose dreary dwelling

Joy to the world

Hark! What mean those holy voices?

Cooke, B:

Angelic hymns thy natal day

Fawcett:

Strike! Seraphs, strike your harps of gold

Hill, John:

The people that walked in darkness

Key:

Come celebrate th' auspicious morn

Madan:

Lo! He comes with clouds descending

Marsh, W:

The branch, the mighty branch behold

Matthews, W:

How beauteous are their feet

Stephenson, J:

Arise and hail the sacred day

Storace, S:

Angels from the realms of glory

Taylor, R:

Hosanna to King David's son

Tremain:

In Bethlem fields as shepherds kept

Wade:

O come, all ye faithful

(arr. Vincent Novello)

Wainwright:

Christians, awake, salute the happy morn


The Parley of Instruments, Psalmody, Peter Holman

As the season of turkey and stuffing looms in our minds, there could be no more homey a disc for Christmas than this unusual collection championing the village genius of local composers, whose settings of carols and hymns kept the congregations warm all those years ago - a time when the commercial excesses of today's Christmas were unknown. Modern clichés about community values have nothing in comparison to the humble pride and unity of villagers and townsfolk who gathered to sing settings that were the labour of love and skill on the part of the local composer or choirmaster ... or even excise officer! The foibles and fondness of community life combine here with all manner of interesting tastes in compositional technique, be it idiosyncratic fugal treatment or instrumentation designed to keep busy whatever musicians could be mustered.
 
The organ on the recording dates from 1789 and the old temperament is used.

Hyperion - The English Orpheus - CDA67443

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