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A Winter's Light - A Christmas Collection

8.573030

DDD
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 73'48"
Tracks: 20
Booklet pages: 16
© 2012 Naxos Rights International Ltd
Reviewer: Howard Smith
Review of A Winter's Light - A Christmas Collection published on 11 December 2012

Susan Watson, soprano (11)
Aylsha Patterson, soprano (14, 15)
Paul Robertson, tenor (14)
Fiona McWilliams, soprano (20)
Alex Brougham, alto (20)
Daniel Burges, tenor (20)
Matthew Wood, bass (20)
Vasari Singers
Martin Ford, organ (1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 20)
Jeremy Backhouse, conductor

Bob Chilcott (born 1955):
1 This is the Truth (2010) from the Carol Cycle 'On Christmas Night'

Traditional, arranged by Jonathan Rathbone (born 1957):
2 Gabriel's Message (1991)

Jan Sweelinck (1562-1621):
3 Hodie Christus natus est (1619)

Michael Praetorius (c1571-1621), arranged by Jan Sandström (born 1954):
4 Es Ist ein Ros entsprungen (1609/1990)

Herbert Howells (1892-1983):
5 Sing Lullaby (1920)

Pierre Villette (1926-98):
6 Hymne à la Vierge

Bob Chilcott:
7 Sweet was the song (2010)

8 Plainchant: Divinum mysterium from Piae Cantiones, arr David Willcocks (born 1919): Of the Father's heart begotten (1582/1963)

Giovanni Gabrieli (c1555-1612):
9 Hodie Christus natus est (1597)

Bob Chilcott:
10 Rejoice and be merry (2010)

Walford Davies (1869-1941):
11 O little town of Bethlehem (1920)

C Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960):
12 The Stable Door (1933)

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) arranged by John E West (1863-1929):
13 O Holy Night (1847/1910)

Harold Darke (1888-1976):
14 In the bleak mid-winter (1909)

Gabriel Jackson (born 1962):
15 The Christ-child (2009)

John Rutter (born 1945):
16 Nativity Carol (1971)

James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893), arranged by Ben Parry (born 1965):
17 Jingle Bells (1859/1992)

Bob Chilcott:
18 Christmas-tide (1997)

Greg Lake (born 1947), arranged by Jonathan Rathbone:
19 I believe in Father Christmas (1974/?)

Jonathan Rathbone:
20 Carol Medley (1993)

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