SKU: PE.EP73460
ISBN 9790577019512. 297 x 210mm inches. English.
The text comes from the pen of the seventeenth-century Welsh poet Henry Vaughan, a leading metaphysical voice during the Commonwealth period (1649-1660), when the republican government of Oliver Cromwell banned the Anglican Church.Christ's Nativity was commissioned by the Cathedral Choral Society of Washington D.C. with support from the Richard Wayne Dirksen Memorial Endowment Fund. The selected lyrics by Welsh poet Henry Vaughan fascinated me immensely and therfore prompted me to think about a specific musical environment for the piece, best suited for merging the music into this wonderful poetic landscape. This poetry brings about a strong mixture of the Evangelical mystery of Christ's Nativity, mystically evoked by Nature, and at the same time reveals the optimism and drama of an ordinary individual that any human being can easily identify with.
SKU: MN.70-106
UPC: 688670701061. English.
Movement VI from the Suite on the NativityBased on 14th and 15th century German carol tunes for SATB chorus, SA voices (children's chorus) and chamber orchestra (Fute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet in C, Harp, Timpani, Chimes, Glockenspiel, Triangle, and Strings) in six movements. Performance time of entire suite approximately 15 minutes.
SKU: MN.70-104
UPC: 688670701047. English.
Movement IV from the Suite on the NativityBased on 14th and 15th century German carol tunes for SATB chorus, SA voices (children's chorus) and chamber orchestra (Fute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet in C, Harp, Timpani, Chimes, Glockenspiel, Triangle, and Strings) in six movements. Performance time of entire suite approximately 15 minutes.
SKU: MN.70-105
UPC: 688670701054. German.
Movement V from the Suite on the NativityBased on 14th and 15th century German carol tunes for SATB chorus, SA voices (children's chorus) and chamber orchestra (Fute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet in C, Harp, Timpani, Chimes, Glockenspiel, Triangle, and Strings) in six movements. Performance time of entire suite approximately 15 minutes.
SKU: MN.70-102
UPC: 688670701023. English.
Movement II from the Suite on the NativityBased on 14th and 15th century German carol tunes for SATB chorus, SA voices (children's chorus) and chamber orchestra (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet in C, Harp, Timpani, Chimes, Glockenspiel, Triangle, and Strings) in six movements. Performance time of entire suite approximately 15 minutes.
SKU: AY.FRD17
ISBN 9790302114581.
A short suite for solo organ, adapted by the composer from his Songs of the Nativity, Op. 13. Consists of four selections: That Hallowed Season, At the Creche, Cuckoo, and Now Begin on Christmas Day.
SKU: GI.G-6268
UPC: 785147626800. English. Text Source: Psalm 139 Part I, The Psalms of David, 1719. Text by Isaac Watts. Scripture: Psalm 139.
This edition may be performed as a suite of five pieces: In All My Vast Concerns with Thee, Ye Followers of the Prince of Peace, Bright Morning Stars, The Promised Land, and Now Brethren, though We Part.
SKU: PL.9210
Randall Giles' setting of this famous text from the II Vespers of the Nativity of Our Lord has great strength as a work for four-part men's chorus. Giles has written a descant for soprano, lending an angelic presence to the texture. An oboe or flute may also be used for the descant to create a different translucent color.
SKU: ST.W217
ISBN 9790220221941.
An expert choral director as well as a highly regarded composer, Ronald Corp has written unaccompanied SATB settings of three famous medieval carol texts, Myn Lyking, The Virgin's Cradle Hymn (Dormi Jesu) and Quem Pastores Laudavere. The idiom is modern yet accessible, with an ear for stylish harmony that includes both modal progressions and colourful added chords, embroidered in some rich yet untaxing divisi writing. The carols may be performed as separate items or as a group, the first two being cradle songs for the Nativity, the third also suited to the celebration of Epiphany on 6 Janaury. Ronald Corp is Founder and Artistic Director of the New London Orchestra and New London Children's Choir, and Musical Director of the London Chorus and Highgate Choral Society.
