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KEITH BRAMICH

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Welcome Yule! Choral Favorites for Christmas. Sursum Corda / Lester Seigel. © 2013 MSR Classics

Here we go again — ut animalia viderent Dominum natum — a different choir on a different continent — and here's O Magnum Mysterium — the holy mystery of animals (Mankind's best friends?) viewing the infant Jesus in the manger. Of the many settings of this text, Lester Seigel, conductor of Sursum Corda, based in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, since 2006, has chosen that by English composer, conductor and organist Malcolm Archer (born 1952). Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College, Archer has had cathedral posts at Norwich, Bristol, Wells and St Paul's in London...

Copyright © 24 December 2014 Keith Bramich,
Berkshire UK

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