Hodie - An English Christmas Collection / The Sixteen

$14.99
Label
Coro
Release Date
October 1, 2001
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN LAVENER WARLOCK
    • PERFORMER
      Hodie: English Christmas
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 01, 2001
    • UPC
      828021600425
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16004
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Secular
    Works ⌄

    1. Make We Joy Now in this Fest

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child, Op. 25, No. 2, "Coventry Carol"

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. A Babe is Born

      Composer: Peter Racine Fricker

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. The Virgin's Cradle Song

      Composer: Edmund Rubbra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. A Hymn to the Virgin

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. The Lamb

      Composer: John Tavener

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. Procession

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    8. Wolcum yole!

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    9. There is no rose

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    10. That yonge child

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    11. Balulalow

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    12. As dew in Aprille

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    13. This little Babe

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    14. Interlude

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    15. In freezing winter night

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    16. Spring Carol

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    17. Deo Gracias!

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    18. Recession

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    19. Sing lullaby

      Composer: Herbert Howells

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    20. Lute book lullaby

      Composer: Peter Hayward

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    21. A spotless rose

      Composer: Herbert Howells

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    22. Corpus Christi

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    23. Balulalow

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    24. Benedicamus Domino

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    25. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

      Composer: John Gardner

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


If you own The Sixteen's 20th Century Christmas Collection (on now-defunct Collins), you have most of the works included on this reissue offered by the choir's own Coro label. The difference is that Britten's A Ceremony of Carols (also previously issued on Collins in The Sixteen's Britten series) appears here instead of Peter Maxwell Davies' O magnum mysterium, a move that certainly makes for a more marketable package. If you don't have the original, this program features many of what have become classics of modern Christmas choral repertoire, among them Howells' A spotless rose, Warlock's Balulalow, Britten's A Hymn to the Virgin, Tavener's The Lamb, and Gardner's setting of Tomorrow shall be my dancing day. But Kenneth Leighton's Coventry Carol is a rarely heard masterpiece, as is Warlock's Corpus Christi--and Rubbra's short The Virgin's Cradle Song and Peter Fricker's similarly brief A babe is born are well worth repeated hearings. This Ceremony of Carols is arguably the finest in the catalog (at least among performances with women's voices), and throughout the disc there is consistently top-notch ensemble singing and solo work of the highest order. The sound is identical to the exceptional quality of the initial releases. An essential disc for any choral and Christmas music library. [10/19/2002]--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com