Cantique De Noël: French Music For Christmas, From Berlioz To Debussy
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Cantique De Noël: French Music For Christmas, From Berlioz To Debussy
Choir Of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (Director), Michael How & Luke Fitzgerald (Organ)
[ Delphian / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 19 October 2018
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Geoffrey Webber and his choir have developed a reputation for exploring the unusual, and this album is no exception. A number of traditional French melodies have been adapted over the years to become familiar Christmas fare in English-speaking lands; on this recording, though, they are heard in their original French arrangements, and accompanied by the French-style organ in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford, with its pungent reeds and powerful string stops.
The resulting Romantic fervour is an aspect of Christmas that is sometimes lost amid the Anglo-Saxon tradition of Christmas trees and domestic bliss, and it gives fresh context and meaning to beloved music from Berlioz and his successors.
Tracks:
1 Cantique de Noël | Adolphe Adam [5:53]
2 L'adieu des bergers à la sainte famille | Berlioz [4:34]
3 O mon âme | Berlioz [6:10]
4 Il est né le divin enfant | Trad., arr. Gabriel Fauré [1:36]
5 Noël | Gounod [5:30]
6 Domine, ego credidi | Saint Saens [2:56]
7 Alleluia | Saint Saens [2:45]
8 Nous voici dans la ville|Trad., arr. Léon Roques [3:39]
9 Quelle est cette odeur agréable ?| Léon Roques [4:22]
10 Quittez, pasteurs | Léon Roques [2:06]
11 Noël nouvelet | Léon Roques [3:23]
12 La vierge à la crèche | Franck arr. Joseph Noyon [3:16]
13 Noël des enfants | Debussy [2:39]
14 Coeur de Jésus enfant | Guilmant [5:24]
15 La neige | Massenet [1:46]
16 C'est aujourd'hui | Fernand de La Tombelle | [3:22]
17 Dans les cieux règne l'allégresse | Tombelle [2:46]
18 Noël d'enfants | Trad., arr. Gabriel Fauré [2:27]
19 Portuguese Hymn (Adeste fideles) | Gounod [6:28]
