A Ceremony of Carols / Rees, Choir of the Queen's College Oxford

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
August 21, 2020
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Choir Of The Queen'S College
    • PERFORMER
      Oxford, John, Wakeford, Rees
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 21, 2020
    • UPC
      635212062722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD627
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Drop Down, Ye Heavens, from Above

      Composer: Judith Weir

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    2. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    3. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (arr. D. Blackwell for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    4. Resonet in laudibus

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Laurence John

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    5. The Three Kings

      Composer: Jonathan Dove

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Olivia Hugh-Jones, Alexandra Moss

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    6. Procession

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    7. Wolcum yole!

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    8. There is no rose

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    9. That yongë child

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Melissa Talbot, Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    10. Balulalow

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Alexandra Moss, Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    11. As dew in Aprille

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    12. This little Babe

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    13. Interlude

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Lucy Wakeford

    14. In freezing winter night

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Olivia Hugh-Jones, Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    15. Spring Carol

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Alexandra Moss, Elizabeth Nurse, Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    16. Deo Gracias!

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Lucy Wakeford

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    17. Recession

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    18. In dulci jubilo

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Performer: Laurence John

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    19. Good-will to men, and peace on Earth

      Composer: Dobrinka Tabakova

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    20. O virga ac diadema

      Composer: Hildegard von Bingen

      Performer: Olivia Hugh-Jones, Melissa Talbot

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    21. Geborn ist Gottes Söhnelein

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    22. The Owl

      Composer: Toby Young

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    23. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    24. Now may we singen

      Composer: Cecilia McDowall

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees

    25. Puer natus in Bethlehem

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Ensemble: Oxford Queen's College Choir

      Conductor: Owen Rees


A glorious collection of Christmas music spanning over 900 years, centered around Britten's A Ceremony of Carols – a work seen as both a signal of Britten’s turn back towards English musical and cultural traditions and as a distinctly modern composition. Owen Rees and the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford present this alongside works that alternate between the early 17th century – by that most prolific composer and arranger of Lutheran Christmas music, Michael Praetorius – and the present: music by Judith Weir (1984), David Blackwell (2011), Jonathan Dove (2000), Dobrinka Tabakova (2018), Toby Young (2017), and Cecilia McDowall (2007). At one point we interrupt the pattern of alternation to look back half a millennium further than Praetorius, with Hildegard of Bingen’s O virga ac diadema. ‘An undoubted jewel in Britain’s choral scene’ (BBC Music Magazine), the Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford is among the finest and most active university choirs in the UK. Previous releases with Signum A New Heaven (2017) and The House of the Mind (2018) both went straight to no. 1 in the Specialist Classical Chart in their first week of release.