Britten: Saint Nicholas - A Ceremony of Carols / Temple, BBC Concert Orchestra

$14.99
Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
November 6, 2020
Format
Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.


    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN, BENJAMIN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Crouch End Festival Chorus, Bbc Concert Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Temple
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 06, 2020
    • UPC
      635212064924
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD649
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq

      Conductor: David Temple

    2. The Birth of Nicolas

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Coldfall Primary School Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq, Zachary Almeida-Rosser

      Conductor: David Temple

    3. Nicolas devotes himself to God

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq

      Conductor: David Temple

    4. He journeys to Palestine

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq

      Conductor: David Temple

    5. Nicolas comes to Myra and is chosen Bishop

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus, Hannah Brine Choirs, members Hertfordshire Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq

      Conductor: David Temple

    6. Nicolas from Prison

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq

      Conductor: David Temple

    7. Nicolas and the Pickled Boys

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq, Erykah Golon, Lara Gosling, Elodie Saunders

      Conductor: David Temple

    8. His Piety and Marvellous Works

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus, Hannah Brine Choirs, members Hertfordshire Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra

      Conductor: David Temple

    9. The Death of Nicolas

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus, Hannah Brine Choirs, members Hertfordshire Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra

      Performer: Mark Le Brocq

      Conductor: David Temple

    10. Procession

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Conductor: David Temple

    11. Wolcum yole!

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Performer: Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    12. There is no rose

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Performer: Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    13. That yongë child

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Caroline Milton, Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    14. Balulalow

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Performer: Genevieve Helsby, Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    15. As dew in Aprille

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Performer: Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    16. This little Babe

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Performer: Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    17. Interlude

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Sally Pryce

    18. In freezing winter night

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Performer: Rosemary Zolynski, Alison Brister, Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    19. Spring Carol

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Rosemary Zolynski, Caroline Milton, Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    20. Deo Gracias!

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Performer: Sally Pryce

      Conductor: David Temple

    21. Recession

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Crouch End Festival Chorus

      Conductor: David Temple


Crouch End Festival Chorus presents two Britten classics: Saint Nicolas and A Ceremony of Carols. Full of vibrancy and drama, Saint Nicolas is performed alongside the fabulous BBC Concert Orchestra and features tenor Mark Le Brocq as well as Coldfall Primary School Choir, members of Hertfordshire Chorus and Hannah Brine Choirs. The ever-popular A Ceremony of Carols is performed with harpist Sally Pryce, with both works conducted by David Temple. A Ceremony of Carols (1942/3) and Saint Nicolas (1948) are the earliest works that Benjamin Britten composed for public performance primarily for boys’ voices. These performances, recorded here at London’s All Saint’s Church and Alexandra Palace Theatre, truly show how glorious these two pieces of music are, and why they have remained so popular.

REVIEW:

This album stands out, for it might be considered an authentic performance. The main choir, gallery choir, boy soloists, and duo pianists here are all amateurs, and they bring a sense of discovery to the work and its narrative quality that's different from professional choir performances. The Ceremony of Carols has the requisite bright innocence, and the boy soloists in Saint Nicolas are top-notch. Conductor David Temple deserves special notice here, fusing the members of four separate choirs into a seamless whole. The engineering in the recently restored and acoustically ideal Alexandra Palace Theater is a bonus on top of this fine slice of the English choral tradition.

– AllMusicGuide.com (James Manheim)