Christmas from Lichfield

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CHRISTMAS FROM LICHFIELD
Christmas from Lichfield
The Choir of Lichfield Cathedral / Andrew Lumsden (conductor) with Robert Sharpe, organ

[ Nimbus / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2008

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"If you are looking for a recommendable, no-frills, no gimmicks, but imaginative collection of Christmas music, well sung by an English cathedral choir and well recorded, this could be it." (MusicWeb Nov 2009)

"If you are looking for a recommendable, no-frills, no gimmicks, but imaginative collection of Christmas music, well sung by an English cathedral choir and well recorded, this could be it. The programme is fairly predictable, but by no means over-conservative: the excerpt from Mendelssohn's Christus, 'When Jesus our Lord was born in Bethlehem - There shall a star of Jacob come forth', makes a welcome change from the same composer's Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Gerald Hendrie's There is no rose, Lennox Berkeley's Look up, Sweet Babe, Garth Edmundson's organ arrangement of Vom Himmel hoch, and Benjamin Britten's New Year Carol are all welcome comparative rarities." (MusicWeb Nov 2009)

This disc presents an attractively representative collection of music for an English Christmas. A number of these carols present material from the folk tradition which naturally stretches far back towards the origins of Christmas, and in some cases even beyond into a Pagan past.

Recorded at Lichfield Cathedral on 12th - 15th February 1996

Tracks:

1 arr. David Willcocks (b. 1919), Sussex Carol 1.53
2 Peter Warlock (1894-1930), Bethlehem Down 4.57
3 Gerald Hendrie, There is no rose 2.55
4 John Gardner (b. 1917), Tomorrow shall be my dancing day 2.15
5 J.S. Bach (1685-1750), In dulci jubilo (I) 2.25
6 Elizabeth Poston (b. 1905), Jesus Christ the Apple Tree 3.38
7 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Christus 7.18
8 Herbert Howells (1892-1983), Sing lullaby 3.28
9 Herbert Howells, Here is the little door 3.58
10 J.S. Bach, In dulci jubilo (II) 2.49
11 arr. Stephen Jackson, Noel Nouvelet 5.31
12 arr. Andrew Lumsden (b. 1962), Silent Night 3.18
13 Lennox Berkeley (b. 1903), Look up, Sweet Babe 4.48
14 John Tavener (b. 1944), The Lamb 3.43
15 Garth Edmundson, Vom Himmel hoch 4.48
16 Harold Darke (1888-1976), In the bleak mid-winter 4.49
17 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), New Year Carol 2.47
18 William Crotch (1775-1847), Lo! star-led chiefs 4.37