Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford
A Ceremony of Carols
- Type CD
- Label Signum Classics
- UPC 0635212062722
- Catalog number SIGCD 627
- Release date 16 October 2020
About the album
A glorious collection of Christmas music spanning over 900 years, centered around Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols – a work seen as both a signal of Britten’s turn back towards English musical and cultural traditions and as a distinctly modern composition.
Owen Rees and the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford present this alongside works that alternate between the early 17th century – by that most prolific composer and arranger of Lutheran Christmas music, Michael Praetorius – and the present: music by Judith Weir (1984), David Blackwell (2011), Jonathan Dove (2000), Dobrinka Tabakova (2018), Toby Young (2017), and Cecilia McDowall (2007). At one point the pattern is paused to look back half a millennium further than Praetorius, with Hildegard of Bingen’s O virga ac diadema.
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11Drop down, ye heavens, from above
01:49 -
12Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
02:32 -
13Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
03:43 -
14Resonet in laudibus
03:16 -
15The Three Kings
04:31 -
16A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Procession
01:28 -
17A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Wolcum Yole!
01:26 -
18A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 There is no Rose
02:29 -
19A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 That yongë child
01:49 -
110A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Balulalow
01:27 -
111A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 As dew in Aprille
01:01 -
112A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 This little Babe
01:27 -
113A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Interlude
04:10 -
114A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 In Freezing Winter Night
04:06 -
115A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Spring Carol
01:05 -
116A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Deo Gracias
01:06 -
117A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 Recession
01:48 -
118In dulci jubilo
02:55 -
119Good-will to men, and peace on Earth
02:27 -
120O virga ac diadema
05:18 -
121Geborn ist Gottes Söhnelein
01:01 -
122The Owl
01:54 -
123Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
01:21 -
124Now may we singen
03:15 -
125Puer natus in Bethlehem
05:17