Incarnation - McCreesh
SIGCD346
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 77'25"
Tracks: 17
Booklet pages: 60
© 2013 Winged Lion / Signum Records
Reviewer: Keith Bramich
Review of Incarnation - McCreesh published on 24 December 2013
Listen: Britten: Jesu, as Thou art our saviour (A Boy was Born) (track 14, 0:00-0:58)
Gabrieli Consort
Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir
Paul McCreesh, conductor
Matthew Martin (born 1976):
1 Adam lay ybounden
thirteenth century:
2 Veni, veni Emanuel
Herbert Howells (1892-1983):
3 Long, long ago
fourteenth century:
4 Lullay, lullay: als I lay on Yoolis Night
Matthew Venner, counter-tenor
Francis Pott (born 1957):
5 Balulalow
Emma Walshe, soprano
thirteenth/fourteenth century:
6 Qui creavit celum
Jonathan Dove (born 1959):
7 The three kings
fifteenth/sixteenth century:
8 This endere nyghth I saw a sighth
Guy Cutting, tenor
Christopher Watson, tenor (verses)
Greg Skidmore, baritone
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988):
9 A Hymn of the Nativity
Ruth Provost, soprano
twelfth/thirteenth century sarum chant:
10 Letabundus
Gabriel Crouch, baritone
Stephen Kennedy, baritone
William Townend, baritone
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):
A Boy was Born
11 A Boy was Born
12 Lullay, Jesu
13 Herod
14 Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour
15 The Three Kings
16 In the bleak mid-winter
17 Noel!
Nicholas Algot Swensen, treble
An inspiring sequence of Christmas music ancient and modern, culminating in Britten's virtuosic choral masterpiece, A Boy Was Born.
Recorded 17-19 December 2012 in Douai Abbey, Berkshire, England.
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