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This holiday season 2015 release lives up to its title, but it's a specific kind of Very English Christmas that's on offer here, and how you'll feel about it is likely to depend on your reaction toward the repertory as a whole. Signum bills the album as a collection of carols "old and new," but this is not the usual type of English Christmas album with Renaissance standards mixed in with big Romantic, English pieces and a few contemporary cathedral choir works. Instead you get the cathedral choir pieces exclusively, going back only as far as Peter Warlock (1894-1930), who influenced many of his 20th century successors in this style. The run of five sparse yet lively Warlock pieces in the middle of the program is the strongest thing here, and the nimble voices of Nigel Short's Tenebrae are ideal interpreters. Aside from these there are composers who are not household names outside of Britain, and perhaps even not outside British choral circles. An attractive feature of the program is that there are several examples in which the same text is set by more than one composer. This draws you into the subtle, but not really wide-ranging, style of this music, mostly unaccompanied but lightly accompanied by organ in a few cases and with a more triumphant organ part in the finale, John Gardner's A Gallery Carol. Very nicely recorded, and recommended especially for devotees of choral music.
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Simon Preston, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist - Christopher Watson, MainArtist - Emilia Morton, MainArtist
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Simon Preston, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist
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John Gardner, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist
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Richard Lloyd, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist
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Christopher Robinson, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist
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Richard Hickox, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Grace Davidson, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Peter Warlock, Composer
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Peter Warlock, Composer
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Peter Warlock, Composer
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Peter Warlock, Composer - Grace Davidson, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Peter Warlock, Composer
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Philip Ledger, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Nicholas Madden, MainArtist
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Simon Preston, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist - Joanna Forbes-L'Estrange, MainArtist
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Philip Ledger, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Arnold Bax, Composer
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Paul Edwards, Composer - James Sherlock, MainArtist
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Jonathan Lane, Composer
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Richard Knight, Composer - James Sherlock, MainArtist - Stephen Kennedy, MainArtist
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Alec Redshaw, Composer
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John Gardner, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist - Katie Trethewey, MainArtist
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Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - Grace Davidson, MainArtist - Philip Radcliffe, Composer - Christopher Watson, MainArtist
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John Gardner, Composer - Nigel Short, Conductor - Tenebrae, MainArtist - James Sherlock, MainArtist
(C) 2015 Signum Records (P) 2015 Signum Records
Albumbeschreibung
This holiday season 2015 release lives up to its title, but it's a specific kind of Very English Christmas that's on offer here, and how you'll feel about it is likely to depend on your reaction toward the repertory as a whole. Signum bills the album as a collection of carols "old and new," but this is not the usual type of English Christmas album with Renaissance standards mixed in with big Romantic, English pieces and a few contemporary cathedral choir works. Instead you get the cathedral choir pieces exclusively, going back only as far as Peter Warlock (1894-1930), who influenced many of his 20th century successors in this style. The run of five sparse yet lively Warlock pieces in the middle of the program is the strongest thing here, and the nimble voices of Nigel Short's Tenebrae are ideal interpreters. Aside from these there are composers who are not household names outside of Britain, and perhaps even not outside British choral circles. An attractive feature of the program is that there are several examples in which the same text is set by more than one composer. This draws you into the subtle, but not really wide-ranging, style of this music, mostly unaccompanied but lightly accompanied by organ in a few cases and with a more triumphant organ part in the finale, John Gardner's A Gallery Carol. Very nicely recorded, and recommended especially for devotees of choral music.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:25
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Tenebrae Nigel Short
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Signum Records
- Genre: Klassiek
(C) 2015 Signum Records (P) 2015 Signum Records
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