Incarnation
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Incarnation
Gabrieli Consort & Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 30 September 2013
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An inspiring sequence of Christmas music ancient and modern, which culminates with Britten's virtuosic choral masterpiece A Boy Was Born: Paul McCreesh leads the Gabrieli Consort (joined by the Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir) in this evocative and contrasting collection of festive works that draws on music from the 12th century to the present day
"This is by no means a conventional Christmas disc. Indeed, tinsel and holly are nowhere in sight. It is, in the best sense, a challenging - and hugely rewarding - programme which has been put together thoughtfully and with discernment. The performances are absolutely first rate...enjoyment of this disc need be confined solely to the Christmas period." MusicWeb International, 18th November 2013
"a Christmas issue which is genuinely challenging and different…Martin's music evokes in an extraordinary suggestive manner the theological paradox buried within the Eden story… The Gabrieli's rapt and intense performance is remarkable in it poise and tonal control at mainly low dynamic levels… A wonderful Christmas offering: treat yourself and friends or both, to it" BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month, Christmas Issue 2013 *****
"If ever greatness announced itself, it was with Britten's audaciously inventive and extended choral variations, A Boy Was Born...McCreesh has made it the end piece of an ancient and modern Nativity programme...which the Gabrielis gave atmospherically at Shoreditch Church as part of the Spitalfields Winter Festival." Sunday Times, 1st December 2013
"It is arguably the most moving setting of these words written since Britten's version in A Ceremony of Carols, and I wish it appeared on disc and was performed more often." Gramophone Magazine, December 2013
Tracks:
This Endere Nyghth I Saw a Syghth
Qui Creavit Celum
Lullay, Lullay: Als I Lay on Yoolis Night
Veni, Veni Emanuel
Britten:
A Boy was Born, Op. 3
Dove:
The three Kings
Howells:
Long, Long Ago
Leighton:
A Hymn of the Nativity
Martin, M:
Adam lay ybounden
Pott:
Balulalow
