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A Child’s Christmas in Bethlehem
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Label: Analekta
Cat No: AN29886
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 16th December 2013
Contents
Artists
Bel Canto Children’s ChorusBach Choir of Bethlehem
Conductor
Greg FunfgeldArtists
Bel Canto Children’s ChorusBach Choir of Bethlehem
Conductor
Greg FunfgeldAbout
“Tis the night before Christmas and all through the world people gather to share stories, poems and music of this wondrous night”. Thus the narrator of 'A Child’s Christmas in Bethlehem' draws us into a magical recording that includes carols spanning seven centuries and five languages, as well as poems and stories that take us from Bethlehem in the Holy Land, where we are present at the birth of Jesus as seen through a child’s eyes, to diverse Christmas traditions of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the present day.
Under the direction of Greg Funfgeld, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem is joined by the Bel Canto Children’s Chorus, and accompanied by organ, piano, violins, guitar, handbells and percussion. The voices of adults and children, poets from Robert Herrick, William Blake and Langston Hughes to 10 year old Carla Victoria Lugo, storytellers from Jostein Gaarder to Zaida Padilla, and composers from Johann Sebastian Bach to John Rutter and Bob Chilcott, combine to create pure delight for the ears and the heart.
This is a recording for families to treasure in the belief that it is never too early or too late to instill the love of great music and literature and lift our spirits with this beautiful meditation on the meaning of Christmas.
Contents:
1. PROLOGUE
Presents - Poems
Emma Sensale and Jaida Caraballo
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
14th Century Plainsong
Text: Aurelius C Prudentius, Translation: John M Neale (1818-1866) and Henry Baker
Arranged: John Erikson
What Sweeter Music
Poem: Robert Herrick
2. THE GIFT
Traditional German Carol
Arranged: William Cutter
3. THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY
Story: Jostein Gaarder
4. MARY WONDERED WHAT IT MEANT
Carol
Words and Music: Nancy Telfer
5. NOËL NOUVELET
Traditional French Carol
Anonymous (15th Century)
Arranged: John Rutter
6. NOEL
Poem: Anne Porter
7. BETELEHEMU
Nigerian Carol
Music and lyrics: Via Olatunji and Wendell Whalum
Arranged: Barrington Brooks
8. THE HOUSE OF CHRISTMAS
Poem: G K Chesterton
9. SLEEP WELL THOU CHILD OF GOD
Carol
Music and words: David R Umla
Dedicated to Greg Funfgeld and Choir of the First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem
10. O JESULEIN SEUSS
Traditional German Carol
Harmonisation : Johann Sebastian Bach
11. SNOW OVER BETHLEHEM
Story: Katherine Milhous
Chorale
C I La Trobe
1962 Bach Choir of Bethlehem recording
12. LONG AGO IN BETHLEHEM
Moravian Carol
Arranged: Phyllis Tate
13. SHEPHERD’S SONG AT CHRISTMAS
Carol
Music: Gwyneth Walker
The Bel Canto Children’s Chorus
14. THE LAMB
Poem: William Blake
15. THE ANGEL GABRIEL
Carol
Arranged: Bob Chilcott
16. DORMI DORMI
Traditional Italian Carol
Arranged: Mary Goetze
The Bel Canto Children’s Chorus
17. THREE KINGS DAY
Tic-Toc – Poem: Laila-Lis Roque
The Night We Almost Saw the Three Kings
Story: Zaida Padilla
Puerto Rico’s Christmas in Bethlehem
Poem: Carla Victoria Lugo
18. A LA NANITA NANA
Traditional Spanish Carol
Arranged: Dan Davison
19. GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY
Hymn
Music: Playford’s Psalms
Arranged: Benjamin Britten
Saint Nicolas, Op.42
20. WHAT SWEETER MUSIC
Poem: Robert Herrick
21. DING DONG MERRILY ON HIGH
Traditional Carol, 16th Century French melody
Arranged: Mack Wilberg
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