Carols from Chelsea
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0161
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 28th October 2016
Contents
Works
O Holy NightSleigh Ride (arr. Thomas Trotter)
Chorale Prelude BWV729 'In dulci jubilo'
White Christmas
In the Bleak Midwinter
Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day
Once in Royal David's City (arr. David Willcocks)
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
The Little Road to Bethlehem
A Spotless Rose
The Holy Boy
Hodie Christus natus est
Dormi, Jesu
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. David Wilcocks)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Vaughan Williams)
The Truth from Above (traditional)
Benedicamus Domino
Ding dong merrily on high
Artists
The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaJames Orford (organ)
George Hatton
Conductor
William VannWorks
O Holy NightSleigh Ride (arr. Thomas Trotter)
Chorale Prelude BWV729 'In dulci jubilo'
White Christmas
In the Bleak Midwinter
Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day
Once in Royal David's City (arr. David Willcocks)
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
The Little Road to Bethlehem
A Spotless Rose
The Holy Boy
Hodie Christus natus est
Dormi, Jesu
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. David Wilcocks)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Vaughan Williams)
The Truth from Above (traditional)
Benedicamus Domino
Ding dong merrily on high
Artists
The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaJames Orford (organ)
George Hatton
Conductor
William VannAbout
The Chapel Choir sings for the Sunday morning Matins service in the Royal Hospital’s Wren Chapel during the year, but in December provides the music for carol services and other Christmas-themed events almost every day. This recording showcases some of the Choir’s most cherished carol repertoire, alongside solo organ music performed by the Royal Hospital’s Organ Scholar, James Orford, and a very special performance with Chelsea Pensioner George Hatton. George is known for his occasional singing in the Chelsea Pensioners’ Club in the evening, and during December he has been known to join forces with the choir for a song or two. It was one of those moments that gave them the idea to record something with him on this album and the last track, White Christmas, could hardly have ended the disc more joyously! This is the first professional recording George has ever made. And, at the age of 88, it gave him great pleasure to sing with such a wonderful choir.
Many of the Royal Hospital’s carol services begin with Franz Gruber’s spine-tingling carol Stille Nacht, an especially moving carol to hear in the original German, given its celebrated performance in the trenches on Christmas Day, 1914. Once in Royal David’s City is the first of three carols that are usually sung with the full congregation, opening with the famous solo that captures the mood of Christmas like nothing else. In between that and Irving Berlin’s wonderfully un-wintry White Christmas, performed here in a new arrangement by Jim Clements, we hear mostly the work of English composers, from the Renaissance-era genius William Byrd to the contemporary composers Francis Pott and John Rutter. British organist Thomas Trotter’s arrangement of Leroy Anderson’s light-music classic Sleigh Ride leads us into John Gardner’s thrilling setting of the old text Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day, the side drum part played on one of the Royal Hospital’s beautifully decorated instruments.
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