On Christmas Night / Hyde, Williams, Choir of Magdalen College

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Label
Opus Arte
Release Date
October 28, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Choir Of Magdalen College Oxford
    • PERFORMER
      Williams, Hyde
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2016
    • UPC
      809478090229
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      OA CD9022D
    • LABEL
      Opus Arte
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. People, Look East, Op. 67

      Composer: Christopher Steel

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: Anna Lapwood

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    2. 11 Chorale Preludes, Op. 122: No. 8. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Daniel Hyde

    3. Out of Your Sleep

      Composer: Robin Nelson

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: William Fox

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    4. View Me, Lord

      Composer: Richard Lloyd

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    5. 6 Schübler Chorales, BWV 645-650: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Daniel Hyde

    6. A Babe is Born, Op. 55

      Composer: William Mathias

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: Anna Lapwood

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    7. Rocking Carol (Little Jesu Sweetly Sleep) (arr. E. Higginbottom for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    8. Offertoire sur Il est né le divin Enfant

      Composer: Marcel Dupré

      Performer: Daniel Hyde

    9. There Is No Rose, Op. 14

      Composer: John Joubert

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    10. O Little Town of Bethlehem

      Composer: Henry Walford Davies

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: Sebastian Lello, Anna Lapwood

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    11. A Hymn to the Virgin

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: Benjamin Castella-McDonald, Harry Gant, Tom Dixon, Rupert Dugdale, Caspar Barrie

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    12. Nöel nouvelet (arr. S. Jackson for choir and organ)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: Anna Lapwood

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    13. In the Bleak Mid-Winter

      Composer: Harold Darke

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: Maximilian Lawrie, William Fox

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    14. 4 Preludes on Well-Known Carols: No. 3. The Holy and the Ivy

      Composer: Herbert Sumsion

      Performer: Daniel Hyde

    15. Bethlehem Down

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    16. Shepherd's Pipe Carol

      Composer: John Rutter

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: William Fox

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde

    17. Fantasia on Christmas Carols

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Oxford Magdalen College Choir

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Alexander Berry

      Conductor: Daniel Hyde


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.