Heavenly Songs

Name: Heavenly Songs
Brand: SWRmusic
SKU: SWR19015CD
Price: 16.99 EUR
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Artists: Creed, Marcus · Hartmann, Bernhard · Hilger, Judith · Holthaus, Reiner · Kaleschke, Johannes · Mayer, Hubert · Niederberger, Philip · Pfeifer, Julius · Stange, Maria · SWR Vocal Ensemble · Yudenkov, Alexander · Zimmer, Johanna

Description

Angelic choirs, lullabies, hymns to Mary – the themes of Christmas carols are similar in all countries of Europe. And yet every country, every region has its own distinctive tone. This is surely due not least to the fact that no festival is so closely connected with popular culture as Christmas and reaches so far back into the past. The selection of Christmas compositions presented here spans from the Middle Ages to the present day – from an unknown 15th-century composer of sacred music to Jan Sandström. Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols is certainly central here, as it is also based on old carols and is one of the most beautiful choral cycles on the theme of Christmas ever. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt also draws on the Middle Ages with his Magnificat antiphons – a magical musical language between the archaic and the modern. Francis Poulenc's Christmas motets come from a different sound world: he creates a mystical soundscape, which he illuminates with colors of great brilliance. Refined yet light and graceful are the Christmas song settings by Heinrich Kaminski, one of the great composers of German late Romanticism, who should definitely be rediscovered.

Number	Title	Playing time
1	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 1 Procession	00:01:30	listen
2	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 2 Wolcum Yole!	00:01:28	listen
3	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 3 There is no rose	00:02:49	listen
4	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 4 That yongë child	00:02:02	listen
5	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 4 Balulalow	00:01:28	listen
6	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 5 As dew in Aprille	00:01:02	listen
7	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 6 This little babe	00:01:22	listen
8	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 7 Interlude	00:04:13	listen
9	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 8 In freezing winter night	00:03:34	listen
10	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 9 Spring carol	00:01:18	listen
11	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 10 Adam lay i-bounden	00:01:09	listen
12	A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 8 (for women's choir and harp): No. 11 Recession	00:01:56	listen
13	Ther is no rose	00:03:53	listen
14	Verbum Patris humanatur	00:01:45	listen
15	Magnificat antiphons No. 1-7: No. 1 O Weisheit	00:01:27	listen
16	Magnificat antiphons No. 1-7: No. 2 O Adonai	00:02:08	listen
17	Magnificat antiphons No. 1-7: No. 3 O Sproß aus Isais Wurzel	00:01:01	listen
18	Magnificat antiphons No. 1-7: No. 4 O Schlüssel Davids	00:02:27	listen
19	Magnificat antiphons No. 1-7: No. 5 O Morgenstern	00:02:17	listen
20	Magnificat antiphons No. 1-7: No. 6 O König aller Völker	00:01:34	listen
21	Magnificat antiphons No. 1-7: No. 7 O Immanuel	00:03:17	listen
22	Three Christmas Song Settings No. 1-3: No. 1 Maria durch ein Dornwald ging	00:02:48	listen
23	Three Christmas Song Settings No. 1-3: No. 2 Laßt uns das Kindelein wiegen	00:02:33	listen
24	Three Christmas Song Settings No. 1-3: No. 3 Joseph, lieber Joseph mein	00:03:17	listen
25	Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël (4 Motetten zur Weihnachtszeit) FP 152: No. 1 O magnum mysterium	00:03:43	listen
26	Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël (4 Motetten zur Weihnachtszeit) FP 152: No. 2 Quem vidistis pastores dicite	00:02:49	listen
27	Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël (4 Motetten zur Weihnachtszeit) FP 152: No. 3 Videntes stellam	00:03:06	listen
28	Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël (4 Motetten zur Weihnachtszeit) FP 152: 4. Hodie Christus natus est	00:02:34	listen
29	Es ist ein Ros entsprungen	00:04:43	listen