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The BBC has said that this release might be named Quite Simply the Best Christmas Album Ever. Even though it is a reissue, certainly it was at the top of the crop of a group of very strong British releases in 2014, a year when a great many conductors and ensembles shook off long-established formulas and explored fresh ways of looking at Christmas music. No such effort in a long time, however, has been as genuinely novel and at the same time filled with simple beauty as this one by the Taverner Consort & Choir under director Andrew Parrott. Annotator Eric van Tassel points to the themes in broad outlook: the role of Mary, and "the way Christmas music, as far back as the Middle Ages, married the 'high art' of educated people with the spontaneous creativity of ordinary folk Christmas music is the original 'crossover.'" But it's the closer application of this second principle that's really ingenious. Parrott, backed by a suitably limpid sound from his choristers, weaves together music that hasn't been connected before, in a Christmas album or anywhere else. One element is American folk song, as notated by folklorist and composer John Jacob Niles. American vernacular music is often a bugaboo for English choirs, but Parrott sweats the diction details and produces a sound that, without being eerily precise in accent, reflects the contours of the American language. These pieces are paired with English, Irish, and Welsh traditional songs, along the way giving familiar songs a new (or, more accurately, old) twist. The medieval melody and polyphony that was the ultimate source of these "folk" tunes is included in its usual place. Finally Parrott sets all these against the work of British composers of the 20th century who in one way or another explored the simplicities of folk and medieval material. These range from Vaughan Williams to the entirely different Peter Maxwell Davies, and the result is a program that truly unites the "classical" and the "popular" into the indissoluble whole they should be.
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Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Natanya Hadda, Alto - Charles Burney, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Gill Ross, Soprano - Charles Wesley, Lyricist - Lucy Carolan, Organ - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Welsh Traditional, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Edward Jones, Arranger - Frances Kelly, Harp
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Emily van Evera, Soprano - John Jacob Niles, Composer - Paul O'Shaughnessy, Fiddle - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Caroline Trevor, Alto - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Tessa Bonner, Soprano - Emily van Evera, Soprano
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Janet Lax, Soprano - Gustav Holst, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Caroline Balding, Violin
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer - Frances Kelly, Harp
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Libby Crabtree, Soprano - Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Emily van Evera, Soprano - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Caroline Trevor, Alto - Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Emily van Evera, Soprano - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Emily van Evera, Soprano - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Emily van Evera, Soprano - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Tessa Bonner, Soprano - Frances Kelly, Harp
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Emily van Evera, Associated Performer, Main Artist, Soprano - Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - John Jacob Niles, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Traditional, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Paul O'Shaughnessy, Fiddle - Gill Redmond, Cello - William Lyons, Flute
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Caroline Trevor, Alto - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Emily van Evera, Soprano - Tessa Bonner, Soprano
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - English Traditional, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Paul O'Shaughnessy, Fiddle - Gill Redmond, Cello - William Lyons, Flute
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Irish traditional, Composer - Paul O'Shaughnessy, Fiddle - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - John Jacob Niles, Composer - Mary Nichols (Guitar), Alto - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Emily Van Evera (Guitar), Soprano - Graeme Taylor, Guitar
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Irish traditional, Composer - Paul O'Shaughnessy, Fiddle - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Teresa Shaw, Alto - Gustav Holst, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Janet Lax, Soprano - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer - Frances Kelly, Harp
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Andrew Parrott, Associated Performer, Conductor, Main Artist - members of the New London Chamber Choir, Associated Performer, Main Artist - members of the Henrietta Barnett School Choir, Associated Performer, Main Artist - John Hadden, Producer - Martin Madan, Composer - Malcolm Bruno, Executive Producer - Lucy Carolan, Organ - Charles Wesley, Lyricist - John Cennick, Lyricist - Taverner Choir, Associated Performer
(P) 1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Albumbeschreibung
The BBC has said that this release might be named Quite Simply the Best Christmas Album Ever. Even though it is a reissue, certainly it was at the top of the crop of a group of very strong British releases in 2014, a year when a great many conductors and ensembles shook off long-established formulas and explored fresh ways of looking at Christmas music. No such effort in a long time, however, has been as genuinely novel and at the same time filled with simple beauty as this one by the Taverner Consort & Choir under director Andrew Parrott. Annotator Eric van Tassel points to the themes in broad outlook: the role of Mary, and "the way Christmas music, as far back as the Middle Ages, married the 'high art' of educated people with the spontaneous creativity of ordinary folk Christmas music is the original 'crossover.'" But it's the closer application of this second principle that's really ingenious. Parrott, backed by a suitably limpid sound from his choristers, weaves together music that hasn't been connected before, in a Christmas album or anywhere else. One element is American folk song, as notated by folklorist and composer John Jacob Niles. American vernacular music is often a bugaboo for English choirs, but Parrott sweats the diction details and produces a sound that, without being eerily precise in accent, reflects the contours of the American language. These pieces are paired with English, Irish, and Welsh traditional songs, along the way giving familiar songs a new (or, more accurately, old) twist. The medieval melody and polyphony that was the ultimate source of these "folk" tunes is included in its usual place. Finally Parrott sets all these against the work of British composers of the 20th century who in one way or another explored the simplicities of folk and medieval material. These range from Vaughan Williams to the entirely different Peter Maxwell Davies, and the result is a program that truly unites the "classical" and the "popular" into the indissoluble whole they should be.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:14
- Main artists: Andrew Parrott New London Chamber Choir Taverner Consort & Players Henrietta Barnett School Choir
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Klassiek
1998 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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