Graham Ross and Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (2020)
Graham Ross and Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:14:44 | 265 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: harmonia mundi
FLAC tracks | 01:14:44 | 265 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: harmonia mundi
It may seem a little perverse to open this review by bypassing the headline event (Britten's A Ceremony of Carols) in favour of its surrounding programme of early twentieth century carols and short choral works, but the latter are so very enjoyable that I'm almost of the opinion that they're where this programme's true gold lies. Not least because not all of it is much recorded. Take Gustav Holst's lilting, unaccompanied This have I done for my true love of 1916, drawing on the English folk tradition in its modal harmonies and melodic simplicity. A tradition you hear equally strongly in John Ireland's wistful lullaby, The Holy Boy, initially published in 1913 as a piano prelude, which balances a simple melody with various gently nuanced harmonic surprises. Or Frank Bridge's serene Music, when Soft Voices Die, which – as with organ-accompanied works of Britten's on the programme such as the album-opening Venite Exultemus Domino and the Hymn to St. Peter - isn't technically a Christmas work at all, yet sits perfectly within the whole. Then the icing on the cake is the mixed-voice choral singing itself: the clean-toned freshness of the female sopranos, balancing against the warmth and depth of the overall sound; articulation crisp and warm in equal measure, and always with a beautiful feel for the texts themselves.
Track List:
1. Venite exultemus Domino (4:14)
2. Te Deum in C (7:42)
3. Jubilate Deo in C (2:32)
4. Deus in adjutorium meum intende (4:39)
5. A Hymn to the Virgin (3:25)
6. A Hymn of St Columba (2:03)
7. Hymn to St Peter, Op. 56a (5:59)
8. The Holy Boy (2:52)
9. Music, when soft voices die, H. 37 (3:28)
10. This have I done for my true love, Op. 34 No. 1, H. 128 (5:27)
11. The Sycamore Tree (1:33)
12. The Holly and the Ivy (3:38)
13. Christ's Nativity: 2. Sweet was the song (2:47)
14. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 1. Procession (1:19)
15. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 2. Wolcum Yole! (1:23)
16. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 3. There is no rose (2:30)
17. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 4a. That yongë child (1:51)
18. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 4b. Balulalow (1:21)
19. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 5. As dew in Aprille (0:57)
20. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 6. This little babe (1:26)
21. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 7. Interlude (4:02)
22. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 8. In freezing winter night (3:36)
23. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 9. Spring Carol (1:17)
24. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 10. Deo gracias (1:07)
25. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: 11. Recession (1:29)
26. Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: 5. A New Year Carol (2:17)
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