Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hodie - A Chistmas Cantata
Hodie - A Chistmas Cantata
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- +Fantasia on Christmas Carols
- Künstler: Janice Watson, Peter Hoare, Stephen Gadd, Guildford Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
- Label: Naxos, DDD, 2007
- Bestellnummer: 7010644
- Erscheinungstermin: 29.10.2007
Vaughan Williams's Christmas Cantata Hodie (This Day) is a brilliant mosaic of musical styles set to poetry from the most diverse sources. Texts by Milton, Hardy, and George Herbert reflecting various Christmas experiences are bound together by a narration of the Gospel Nativity story sung in unison by a boys' choir. With its gripping blend of mysticism, heavenly glory and human hope, Hodie flows with a vitality and inventiveness that belie a work written in Vaughan Williams's old age. The Fantasia on Christmas Carols, which incorporates a number of traditional English carols, is notable for the obbligato cello part and for the varied treatment of the choir, which provide an atmospheric choral-orchestral texture.
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Fantasia on Christmas Carols
- 2 Hodie (This Day): Prologue: Nowell! Nowell!
- 3 Hodie (This Day): Narration: Now is the birth of Jesus Christ
- 4 Hodie (This Day): Song: It was the winter wild
- 5 Hodie (This Day): Narration: And it came to pass in those days
- 6 Hodie (This Day): Choral: The blessed son of God
- 7 Hodie (This Day): Narration: And there were in the same country
- 8 Hodie (This Day): Song: The Oxen
- 9 Hodie (This Day): Narration: And the shepherds returned
- 10 Hodie (This Day): Pastoral: The shepherds sing
- 11 Hodie (This Day): Narration: But Mary kept all these things
- 12 Hodie (This Day): Lullaby: Sweet was the song the Virgin sang
- 13 Hodie (This Day): Hymn: Bright portals of the sky
- 14 Hodie (This Day): Narration: Now when Jesus was born
- 15 Hodie (This Day): The March of the 3 Kings: From kingdoms of wisdom
- 16 Hodie (This Day): Choral: No sad thought his soul affright
- 17 Hodie (This Day): Epilogue: In the beginning was the Word
