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布列頓:聖誕頌歌儀式 及 霍爾斯特/布瑞基合唱曲
葛拉漢．洛斯 指揮
劍橋克萊爾學院合唱團

It's Christmas! Graham Ross invites you to explore the highly individual conception of traditional carols offered by twentieth-century British composers, and notably the most eminent among them, Benjamin Britten. Arranged around his famous Ceremony of Carols is a selection of wonderful choral pieces with or without organ, each of which testifies in its own way to the meticulous care Britten brought to these musical gems, most of them deriving from English folk tradition. Sheer delight!

1 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Venite exultemus Domino
for mixed choir and organ (1961) 4'11
2 Te Deum in C
for mixed choir and organ (1934) 7'40
3 Jubilate Deo in C
for mixed choir and organ (1961) 2'30
4 Deus in adjutorium meum intende
from This Way to the Tomb
for mixed choir a cappella (1944-45) 4'37
5 A Hymn to the Virgin
for solo SATB and mixed choir (1930, rev. 1934) 3'23
6 A Hymn of St Columba
for mixed choir and organ (1962) 2'01
7 Hymn to St Peter Op. 56a
for mixed choir and organ (1955) 5'57
8 John Ireland (1879-1962)
The Holy Boy
Version for mixed choir a cappella (1941) 2'50
9 Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Music, when soft voices die H. 37
for mixed choir a cappella (1904) 3'26
10 Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
This have I done for my true love Op. 34 No. 1, H. 128
for mixed choir a cappella (1916) 5'25
11 Benjamin Britten
The Sycamore Tree
for mixed choir a cappella  (1930, rev. 1967) 1'30
12 Anonymous, arr. Benjamin Britten
The Holly and the Ivy
Traditional folksong, arranged for mixed choir a cappella (1957) 3'36
13 Benjamin Britten
Sweet was the song the Virgin sung
from Christ's Nativity for soprano and mixed choir a cappella (1931) 2'45
14 A Ceremony of Carols Op. 28 (1942, rev. 1943)
Version for mixed choir and harp arranged by Julius Harrison (1885-1963)
1. Procession 1'18
15 2. Wolcum Yole! 1'21
16 3. There is no rose 2'27
17 4a. That yonge child 1'50
18 4b. Balulalow 1'18
19 5. As dew in Aprille 0'56
20 6. This little babe 1'24
21 7. Interlude 4'00
22 8. In freezing winter night 3'34
23 9. Spring Carol 1'14
24 10. Deo gracias 1'05
25 11. Recession 1'26
26 A New Year Carol Op. 7 No. 5
from Friday Afternoons, arranged for mixed choir and harp (1933-35) 2'17