A Christmas Cantata

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GEOFFREY BUSH
A Christmas Cantata
Cardiff Polyphonic Choir and Orchestra

[ Saydisc / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2008

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The highly regarded Cardiff Polyphonic Choir and Orchestra perform the first commercial recording of Geoffrey Bush's beautiful work "A Christmas Cantata". This popular work features well-known carols in a setting for choir with string orchestra and oboe obbligato. Additional Christmas music concludes the album.

Tracks:

A Christmas Cantata Geoffrey Bush
1 Lullay, Jesu, Lullay 6.02
2 The First Good Joy That Mary Had 3.33
3 When Jesus Christ Was Four Years Old 1.56
4 Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep 2.53
5 Rejoice O Make We Merry, Both More & Less 2.54
6 I Sing Of A Maiden 3.04
7 By By Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child 3.30
8 I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In / Epilogue 4.42
9 Shiao Bao-Bao 3.27
Tune trad. Chinese, words and music, Frances Roots Hadden

10 The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (Gabriel's Message) 2.57
Old Basque Carol arr. by Edgar Pettman, words by Rev. S. Baring-Gould
11 Ar Gyfer Heddiw'r Bore 1.38
Trad. Welsh Carol
12 Silent Night, Holy Night 3.22
Trad. arr. Leslie Woodgate, Translation by Basil Douglas
13 Tua Bethlem Dref 1.59
Music by Edward Arthur, words by Wil Ifan
14 As I Outrode This Enderes Night 1.19
Words trad., music by Gerald Hendrie
15 Good King Wenceslas 2.33
Trad. arr. Richard Elfyn Jones