Christmas at Westminster Abbey
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4828564
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 3rd November 2017
Contents
Artists
Choir of Westminster AbbeyChristopher Herrick (organ)
Conductor
Simon PrestonArtists
Choir of Westminster AbbeyChristopher Herrick (organ)
Conductor
Simon PrestonAbout
In this capacity he had charge of the Abbey’s three carol services at Christmas, which are represented on this Deutsche Grammophon album from 1984. Preston alighted in particular on modern carols written by British composers during recent decades. There are settings of traditional words by the late Peter Maxwell Davies, Arthur Oldham and Pete Wishart, as well as a new classic by Elizabeth Poston, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree. Others set verses by contemporary poets; Benjamin Britten’s A Shepherd’s Carol (O lift your little pinkie) has a text by W.H. Auden which uses the language of cowboys from the American west. For this recording, Preston arranged the music into six groups, two each from the pieces sung annually at the three carol services, with well-known Christmas hymns (including Good King Wenceslas and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) interspersed at several points among the carols.
‘The Choir of Westminster Abbey is on its toes in a lively mixture of old and new, familiar and less so.’ - Gramophone, December 1984
Contents:
1. Trad. - Up! awake! from highest steeple (Wachet auf!) (arr. Jacob Praetorius)
2. Arthur Oldham - Remember O thou man
3. Trad. - There stood in Heaven a Linden Tree (arr. G.H. Palmer)
4. Peter Wishart - Alleluya, A New Work is come on Hand
5. Charpentier - Salve puerile (arr. John Rutter)
6. Trad. - The Holly and the Ivy (arr. H. Walford Davies)
7. Poston - Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
8. Praetorius - Resonet in laudibus (arr. Herbert Birtner)
9. Trad. - Ding Dong! Merrily on high (arr. Charles Wood)
10. Maxwell Davies - Nowell (Out of your Sleep Arise)
11. Hammerschmidt - Alleluja! Freuet euch, ihr Christen alle
12. Trad. - Up! Good Christen folk, and listen (arr. G.R. Woodward)
13. Trad. - In dulci jubilo (arr. R.L. Pearsall)
14. Mendelssohn - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
15. Scheidt - Puer Natus in Bethlehem
16. Trad. - Rocking (arr. Sir David Willcocks)
17. John Gardner - Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day
18. Trad. - Illuminare Jerusalem
19. Britten - A Shepherd’s Carol
20. Trad. - Good King Wenceslas
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