A ceremony of carols [CD]

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 settings with and without organ, each of which in its own way testifies to the meticulous care Britten brought to these musical gems, most of them deriving from English folk tradition and heard alongside pieces by three older masters whose music had left its mark on the composer of Peter Grimes: John Ireland, Frank Bridge, and Gustav Holst.

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A ceremony of carols arranged for mixed choir and harp by Julius Harrison.

Compact disc.

Performers:

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge ; Tanya Houghton, harp ; Eleanor Carter, Ashley Chow, organ ; Graham Ross, conductor.

Contents:

Venite exultemus Domino (4:11) ; Te Deum in C (7:40) ; Jubilate Deo in C (2:30) ; Deus in adjutorium meum intende (4:37) ; A hymn to the Virgin (3:23) ; A hymn of St. Columba (2:01) ; Hymn to St. Peter, op. 56a (5:57) / Benjamin Britten -- The Holy Boy / John Ireland (2:50) -- Music, when soft voices die, H. 37 / Frank Bridge (3:26) -- This have I done for my true love, op. 34 no. 1, H. 128 / Gustav Holst (5:25) -- The sycamore tree / Benjamin Britten (1:30) -- The holly and the ivy / anonymous ; arr. Benjamin Britten (3:36) -- Sweet was the song the Virgin sung (2:45) ; A ceremony of carols, op. 28 (21:53) ; A New Year carol (2:17) / Benjamin Britten.

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Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with harp.

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ.

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices)

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