Celebration: Christmas Fanfares and Carols
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CELEBRATION
Celebration: Christmas Fanfares and Carols
Aled Jones (readings) / BBC Welsh Chorus / John Hugh Thomas (conductor) with Fanfare Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards
[ Nimbus / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2008
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"A lovely collection of music and readings for Christmas. There are seven readings, which, within the context of the recording, is just about right for ultimately it is the music for which you will be buying this disk."
(MusicWeb Nov 2009)
"Equally Celtic (as the Chieftains) and equally Christmassy is Celebration Fanfares and Carols (Nimbus): the BBC Welsh Chorus sings such vernacular carols as the regal "Tua Bethlem Dref" and "Tawal Nos", a lovely variation on Silent Night."
Newsweek Magazine
"This is a lovely collection of music and readings for Christmas, making a welcome re-appearance. There are seven readings, which, within the context of the recording, is just about right for ultimately it is the music for which you will be buying this disk. I must make comment that Aled Jones was a very good choice for the reader, for his easy-going, pleasant, delivery is unobtrusive, but yet manages to convey the various moods of the pieces he reads. Especially delightful, and I suspect that he relished it, too, is his performance of the short extract from Dylan Thomas's Memories of Christmas - absolutely delicious!"
(MusicWeb Nov 2009)
Tracks:
1 anon. arr. Willcocks, O Come, all ye Faithful 4.19
2 arr. Malcolm Sargent, Mary had a Baby 1.53
3 Robert Bridges, Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913' 1.10
4 Elizabeth Poston, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree 4.01
5 Shakespeare, Hamlet, Marcello's Speech (Act 1, Sc. 1) 0.28
6 arr. John Rutter, Christmas Night (French Melody) 3.48
7 anon arr. Willcocks, The First Nowell 5.18
8 Dylan Thomas, Memories of Christmas (extract) 1.38
9 William Mathias, Bell Carol 4.14
10 Alun Hoddinott, Fendigaid Nos 2.58
11 Herbert Howells, Here is the Little Door 4.05
12 Thomas Hardy, The Oxen 0.46
13 arr. Willcocks, Once in Royal David's City 5.06
14 arr. Sargent, De Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy 2.21
15 Edward Arthur, Tua Bethlem Dref 2.12
16 Saunders Lewis, Carol (Amlyn ac Amig) 0.40
17 Geraint Lewis, Tawel Nos 5.17
18 Walford Davies, O Little Town of Bethlehem 3.52
19 John Gardner, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day 2.00
20 William Mathias, Sweet Was the Song 3.24
21 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (extract) 3.12
22 anon arr. Willcocks, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 3.12
23 arr. Philip Ledger, Still, still, still (German melody) 2.48
24 arr. John Hugh Thomas, Ar fore dydd Nadolig (traditional Welsh) 2.20
25 Laurie Lee, Christmas Landscape 1.03
26 Mendelssohn, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing 3.30
