On Christmas Night / Hyde, Williams, Choir of Magdalen College
Details
- Composer
- VARIOUS
- Artist
- Williams, Hyde
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Opus Arte
- Released
- Oct 28, 2016
- Catalog #
- OA CD9022D
- UPC
- 809478090229
About
The acclaimed Magdalen College Choir celebrates the diversity of the twentieth-century English carol repertoire in a programme that combines well-loved standards and innovative choir favorites ranging in emotion from quiet contemplation to festive joy. The selection of carols and organ solos, led by director and organist Daniel Hyde, culminates in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s celebrated Fantasia on Christmas Carols with renowned baritone Roderick Williams in the solo part. Several carols focus on the sheer joy of the miraculous Incarnation itself. William Mathias’s A babe is born is a lively setting which gives full rein to the composer’s syncopated, jazzy parallelisms. Optimism is also the principal mode of Christopher Steel’s People look east. In its ebullient joy, the piece bounces off into a different key in the third verse and deploys the voices in canon, before swinging back to a final recapitulation, replete with a jubilant descant. Composers for organ have found themselves drawn to this treasury of festive folksongs. The French organist and teacher Marcel Dupre was requested by his daughter Marguerite to write a setting of the carol Il est ne le divin enfant. The resulting piece is a set of variations on the theme, with the rune variously in the pedals, decorated, and finally worked into a masterly fugue. In similar fashion, Herbert Sumsion transformed a number of carols into preludes for the instrument. Among them was The holly and the ivy which plucks little motifs from its source before gradually introducing the tune itself, building up to a grand statement before subsiding into quiet peace.
Tracklist 17 tracks
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1 People, Look East, Op. 67 03:14
- Track
- 1
- Title
- People, Look East, Op. 67
- Duration
- 03:14
- Composer
- Christopher Steel
- Performer
- Anna Lapwood
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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2 11 Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: No. 8. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen 02:48
- Track
- 2
- Title
- 11 Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: No. 8. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
- Duration
- 02:48
- Composer
- Johannes Brahms
- Performer
- Daniel Hyde
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3 Out of Your Sleep 02:44
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Out of Your Sleep
- Duration
- 02:44
- Composer
- Robin Nelson
- Performer
- William Fox
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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4 View Me, Lord 02:42
- Track
- 4
- Title
- View Me, Lord
- Duration
- 02:42
- Composer
- Richard Lloyd
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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5 6 Schübler Chorales, BWV 645-650: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 04:03
- Track
- 5
- Title
- 6 Schübler Chorales, BWV 645-650: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
- Duration
- 04:03
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer
- Daniel Hyde
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6 A Babe is Born, Op. 55 03:21
- Track
- 6
- Title
- A Babe is Born, Op. 55
- Duration
- 03:21
- Composer
- William Mathias
- Performer
- Anna Lapwood
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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7 Rocking Carol (Little Jesu Sweetly Sleep) (arr. E. Higginbottom for choir) 02:17
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Rocking Carol (Little Jesu Sweetly Sleep) (arr. E. Higginbottom for choir)
- Duration
- 02:17
- Composer
- Traditional
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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8 Offertoire sur Il est né le divin Enfant 04:02
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Offertoire sur Il est né le divin Enfant
- Duration
- 04:02
- Composer
- Marcel Dupré
- Performer
- Daniel Hyde
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9 There Is No Rose, Op. 14 02:22
- Track
- 9
- Title
- There Is No Rose, Op. 14
- Duration
- 02:22
- Composer
- John Joubert
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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10 O Little Town of Bethlehem 04:33
- Track
- 10
- Title
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Duration
- 04:33
- Composer
- Henry Walford Davies
- Performer
- Sebastian Lello, Anna Lapwood
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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11 A Hymn to the Virgin 03:07
- Track
- 11
- Title
- A Hymn to the Virgin
- Duration
- 03:07
- Composer
- Benjamin Britten
- Performer
- Benjamin Castella-McDonald, Harry Gant, Tom Dixon, Rupert Dugdale, Caspar Barrie
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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12 Nöel nouvelet (arr. S. Jackson for choir and organ) 04:30
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Nöel nouvelet (arr. S. Jackson for choir and organ)
- Duration
- 04:30
- Composer
- Traditional
- Performer
- Anna Lapwood
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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13 In the Bleak Mid-Winter 04:30
- Track
- 13
- Title
- In the Bleak Mid-Winter
- Duration
- 04:30
- Composer
- Harold Darke
- Performer
- Maximilian Lawrie, William Fox
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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14 4 Preludes on Well-Known Carols: No. 3. The Holy and the Ivy 04:33
- Track
- 14
- Title
- 4 Preludes on Well-Known Carols: No. 3. The Holy and the Ivy
- Duration
- 04:33
- Composer
- Herbert Sumsion
- Performer
- Daniel Hyde
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15 Bethlehem Down 04:24
- Track
- 15
- Title
- Bethlehem Down
- Duration
- 04:24
- Composer
- Peter Warlock
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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16 Shepherd's Pipe Carol 03:09
- Track
- 16
- Title
- Shepherd's Pipe Carol
- Duration
- 03:09
- Composer
- John Rutter
- Performer
- William Fox
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde
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17 Fantasia on Christmas Carols 12:41
- Track
- 17
- Title
- Fantasia on Christmas Carols
- Duration
- 12:41
- Composer
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Performer
- Roderick Williams, Alexander Berry
- Ensemble
- Oxford Magdalen College Choir
- Conductor
- Daniel Hyde