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CHRISTMAS CHORAL MUSIC - A Winter's Light (Vasari Singers, Ford, Backhouse)

Composer(s):
Artist(s) Vasari Singers, Choir • Backhouse, Jeremy, Conductor • Ford, Martin, organ
Period(s) 20th CenturyBaroque (1600-1750)ContemporaryRenaissance (1400-1600)Romantic
Genre Classical Music
Category Choral - SacredChoral - Secular
Catalogue 8.573030
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 9.99
 

 
FLAC
USD 7.99
 

 
MP3
USD 6.99
 

 


The Vasari Singers’ annual carol concerts always provide a warming blend of traditional favourites and less well-known music from all periods and styles. Here, joyous and masterful 16th-century polyphony sits alongside eternally popular Victorian carols, and exquisitely crafted settings by Howells and Walford Davies join works as recent as Gabriel Jackson’s The Christ-child. Bob Chilcott magically superimposes traditional carols with entrancing new material, and no Vasari Christmas would be complete without some close harmony Swingle singing. The Vasari Singers have also recorded Gabriel Jackson’s Requiem (8.573049).


   



Mesmerizing. Magnificent. Heavenly.
Review By DL93385,December 2012

I adore this disc. It is instantly my favorite Christmas music of the year.



Review By BBC Music Magazine,December 2012

Jonathan Rathbone’s energetically bouncing arrangement of Gabriel’s message is a good place to sample the Vasari Singers’ warmly engaged performances, and they impress also in the tricky, undulating chant figurations at the beginning of Howells’s Sing Lullaby. © 2012 BBC Music Magazine

Review By William Hedley, International Record Review,December 2012

The arrangements are sensational and one is in awe before a choir that can turn in magnificent performances of the most serious and taxing works ain the repertoire, yet is able to turn its collective hand, with slickness that defies description, to entertaining showstoppers such as [the Swingle Singers close harmony arrangements]. © 2012 International Record Review

Review By Brian Wilson - Download News 2012/22, MusicWeb International,November 2012

…the emphasis here is on music written or arranged by contemporary composers…Extracts from Bob Chilcott’s On Christmas Night have the lion’s share, attractive music, but for me the highlight is a peaceful and ethereal arrangement by Jan Sandström of the Prætorius setting of Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen. Even traditionalists can’t complain about the arrangement…There’s plenty of variety, too, with the more solemn mood giving way to secular fun at the end. With the Vasari Singers delivering it all and Naxos providing a good recording this will be regularly on my menu this Christmas. © 2012 MusicWeb International

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