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The St. John's College Choir (men and boys) has enjoyed wide success with previous holiday releases, partly due to excellent engineering (Signum's work in the St. John's College Chapel here is exemplary), more due to the clarity of the choral singing, and most of all due to the fresh and coherent programming concepts offered by director Andrew Nethsingha. Here the concept is stated briefly in the booklet, along with a brief background on the mostly new music: Christmas music, annotator Charlotte Gardner notes, is inseparable from tradition, but increasingly the Christmas album serves to expose new music especially in the English choral tradition. So here you get a variety of short pieces (three-and-a-half minutes max), rooted in, but not hewing to, traditional carols, a few of them by well-known composers (John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Peter Warlock), but the majority are by names that will be new even to many English listeners. The overall mood is meditative, with just a few of the bumping-along, organ-accompanied sorts of work; much of the music is a cappella. Sample I Wonder as I Wander by the Swiss composer Carl Rutti: it's more than a setting of the American folk hymn, but not quite a fantasy of it. It might be termed a reflection on the hymn, and that formulation, one way or another, applies to many of the works on Christmas with St. John's, despite their brevity. A wonderful holiday release with a good measure of seriousness.
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Bob Chilcott, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Traditional, Composer - PUBLIC DOMAIN, MusicPublisher - Henry Walford Davies, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
William Mathias, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
McDowall, MusicPublisher - Cecilia McDowall, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Boris Ord, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Faber Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Philip Ledger, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Encore Publications, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Encore Publications, MusicPublisher - William Whitehead, Composer - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
John Rutter, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Traditional, Composer - PUBLIC DOMAIN, MusicPublisher - John Scott, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Carl Rutti, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
PUBLIC DOMAIN, MusicPublisher - Henry Walford Davies, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Traditional, Composer - Simon Preston, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - EMI Tunes Ltd, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Peter Cornelius, Composer - Ivor Atkins, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Traditional, Composer - Charles Wood, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
PUBLIC DOMAIN, MusicPublisher - Peter Warlock, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Michael Finnissy, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Andrew Carter, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Peter Tranchell, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Peter Marchbank, Composer - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Franz Gruber, Composer - Mark Blatchly, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Anthony Milner, Composer - Milner, MusicPublisher - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Novello & Co Ltd, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Elizabeth Poston, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Cambridge University Press, MusicPublisher - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
John Gardner, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor, MainArtist - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Joseph Wicks, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Album review
The St. John's College Choir (men and boys) has enjoyed wide success with previous holiday releases, partly due to excellent engineering (Signum's work in the St. John's College Chapel here is exemplary), more due to the clarity of the choral singing, and most of all due to the fresh and coherent programming concepts offered by director Andrew Nethsingha. Here the concept is stated briefly in the booklet, along with a brief background on the mostly new music: Christmas music, annotator Charlotte Gardner notes, is inseparable from tradition, but increasingly the Christmas album serves to expose new music especially in the English choral tradition. So here you get a variety of short pieces (three-and-a-half minutes max), rooted in, but not hewing to, traditional carols, a few of them by well-known composers (John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Peter Warlock), but the majority are by names that will be new even to many English listeners. The overall mood is meditative, with just a few of the bumping-along, organ-accompanied sorts of work; much of the music is a cappella. Sample I Wonder as I Wander by the Swiss composer Carl Rutti: it's more than a setting of the American folk hymn, but not quite a fantasy of it. It might be termed a reflection on the hymn, and that formulation, one way or another, applies to many of the works on Christmas with St. John's, despite their brevity. A wonderful holiday release with a good measure of seriousness.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:31
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Andrew Nethsingha Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge Joseph Wicks
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Signum Records
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
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