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Nova! Nova! Joy to the World!
William Holford

Hertfordshire Chorus

Nova! Nova! Joy to the World!

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212075524
Catnr: SIGCD 755
Release date: 03 November 2023
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212075524
Catalogue number
SIGCD 755
Release date
03 November 2023
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About the album

Christmas carols have a universal appeal stemming from the tradition of music being played, sung, rearranged and rewritten by different generations in many different countries and over a number of centuries. Louis Halsey’s Nova! Nova!, a collection of new arrangements of many of the most well-known and beautiful carols from as far back as medieval times, represents perhaps the largest collection of carols by a single composer for many years. Hertfordshire Chorus and David Temple have recorded 24 of these carols in this beautifully presented new collection, including English, German, French, Czech, Basque, Welsh and Irish melodies.

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Hertfordshire Chorus

Hertfordshire Chorus is one of the UK’s finest symphonic choruses and has a reputation for high-quality and passionate singing, commissioning new music, performing challenging and often rarely heard pieces as well as much-loved and well-known works.  It is at home in styles from the major classical works to jazz, music theatre, games music, rock and all points in between. David Temple MBE, one of the leading choral conductors in the country, has been its Musical Director since 2000. The Chorus performs regularly in the UK’s major concert halls, has appeared frequently with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, has worked with Daniele Gatti, Thomas Adès and José Carreras and has made numerous recordings.  Highlights of its engagements...
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Hertfordshire Chorus is one of the UK’s finest symphonic choruses and has a reputation for high-quality and passionate singing, commissioning new music, performing challenging and often rarely heard pieces as well as much-loved and well-known works. It is at home in styles from the major classical works to jazz, music theatre, games music, rock and all points in between. David Temple MBE, one of the leading choral conductors in the country, has been its Musical Director since 2000.

The Chorus performs regularly in the UK’s major concert halls, has appeared frequently with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, has worked with Daniele Gatti, Thomas Adès and José Carreras and has made numerous recordings. Highlights of its engagements include Porgy & Bess with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic under Wayne Marshall, the Game Music Festival with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Robert Kurdybacha and War Horse – The Story in Concert for BBC Radio in Coventry Cathedral.

Recordings have included Nova! Nova! – Joy to the World! (Louis Halsey) and Codebreaker/Ode to a Nightingale (James McCarthy and Will Todd) for Signum, as well as Michael Hurd Choral Music volume 2 for Lyrita. The Chorus has been broadcast on radio on many occasions, including on the BBC marking the Centenary of the 1918 Armistice performing Bliss Morning Heroes and Britten Ballard of Heroes, in Fauré Requiem and in a concert of Christmas music with José Carreras. Classic FM broadcast its concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation. On television it has provided soundtracks on a number of occasions as well as singers for programmes as varied as First Night of the Proms concerts, Spooks and The Unofficial Science of Home Alone.

The Chorus has a special fund to commission new music and under David Temple’s direction its drive to encourage young composers has produced some of the most outstanding and successful new choral music of recent years, including works by Shruthi Rajasekar, Will Todd, James McCarthy, Roland Perrin, Orlando Gough and Howard Haigh. The Chorus is also particularly proud of the work it does with children and young people to help encourage the next generation of choral singers and music enthusiasts.


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David Temple (conductor)

Rufus Frowde (organ)

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01.
Joy to the world!
02:42
(William Holford, Isaac Watts) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde
02.
Ding! dong! merrily on high
02:12
(Thoinot Arbeau, George Woodward) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
03.
Stille Nacht
03:01
(Franz Gruber) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
04.
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
02:37
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
05.
This is the truth sent from above
02:19
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
06.
O come, O come, Emmanuel
03:54
(Traditional, John Mason Neale) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
07.
Noël nouvelet
02:47
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
08.
On Christmas night all Christians sing
01:50
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
09.
Il est né le divin enfant
02:29
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
10.
Now the holly bears a berry
03:10
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
11.
Unto us is born a Son
02:13
(George Woodward, Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
12.
Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen
02:27
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
13.
Deck the hall with boughs of holly
01:34
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
14.
Of the Father’s heart begotten
04:27
(Roby Furley Davis) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
15.
The holly and the ivy
03:11
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
16.
The angel Gabriel
02:32
(Sabine Baring-Gould, Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
17.
Hajej, nynej, Ježíšku
03:02
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
18.
O Tannenbaum
02:14
(Traditional, Ernst Anschütz) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
19.
Coventry Carol
02:59
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
20.
Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
02:34
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
21.
Here we come a-wassailing
03:55
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
22.
In dulci jubilo
02:49
(Traditional, Robert Louis Pearsall) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
23.
Come all you worthy gentlemen
02:06
(Traditional) Hertfordshire Chorus, Rufus Frowde, Louis Halsey
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