Cantique de Noël - French Music for Christmas from Berlioz to Debussy
DCD34197
DDD
24-bit stereo
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 71'14"
Tracks: 19
Booklet pages: 32
© 2018 Delphian Records Ltd
Reviewer: Keith Bramich
Review of Cantique de Noël - French Music for Christmas from Berlioz to Debussy published on 15 December 2018
Listen: Alexandre Guilmant: Cœur de Jésus enfant (track 14, 0:28-1:18)
Clover Willis, soprano (tracks 1, 7, track 8 - L'hôtesse and tracks 9 and 14)
Isabelle Tett, soprano (track 5)
Emily Myles, soprano (tracks 7 and 11)
Maisie Hulbert, soprano (track 8 - Marie, and track 18)
Alice Webster, alto (tracks 5, 7, 11 and 15)
Robert Humphries, tenor (tracks 1, 3, 6, 14 and 16)
Kavi Pau, tenor (track 8 - Joseph and tracks 10 and 12)
Krishnan Ram-Prasad, bass (tracks 7 and 9)
Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge
Mchael How, organ (tracks 1, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 19)
Luke Fitzgerald, organ (tracks (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16 and 17)
Ursula Perks, piano (tracks 5, 13 and 15)
Geoffrey Webber, director
Adolphe Adam:
1 Cantique de Noël
Hector Berlioz:
2 L'adieu des bergers à la sainte famille (L'enfance du Christ)
3 O mon âme (L'enfance du Christ)
traditional, arranged by Gabriel Fauré:
4 Il est né le divin enfant
Charles Gounod:
5 Noël (Chant des religieuses de Uhland)
Camille Saint-Saëns:
6 Domine, ego credidi (Oratorio de Noël)
7 Alleluia (Oratorio de Noël)
traditional, arranged by Léon Roques:
8 Nous voici dans la ville (40 noëls anciens)
9 Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (40 noëls anciens)
10 Quittez, pasteurs (40 noëls anciens)
11 Noël nouvelet (40 noëls anciens)
César Franck, arranged by Joseph Noyon:
12 La vierge à la crèche
Claude Debussy:
13 Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons
Alexandre Guilmant:
14 Cœur de Jésus enfant
Jules Massenet:
15 La neige
Fernand de La Tombelle:
16 C'est aujourd'hui (Noël au village)
17 Dans les cieux règne l'allégresse (Noël au village)
traditional, arranged by Gabriel Fauré:
18 Noël d'enfants
traditional, arranged by Charles Gounod:
19 Portuguese Hymn (Adeste fideles)
Recorded 4-6 April 2018 in Exeter College Chapel, Oxford, UK
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