"Christmas Carols from Salisbury Cathedral": Salisbury Cathedral 1964 (Christopher Dearnley)
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2017
- An LP recorded in Salisbury Cathedral and released on the Saga label (XID 5234). With the cathedral choir, directed by Christopher Dearnley, and Richard Lloyd (organ).
1. Once in royal David’s city (“Irby”)
2. A child this day (Traditional)
3. See amid the winter’s snow (John Goss)
4. A virgin most pure (Traditional)
5. Sleep, holy babe (John Dykes)
6. Silent night (Franz Gruber, arr Dearnley)
7. The first nowell (“The first nowell”)
8. God rest you merry gentlemen (“God rest you merry”)
9. A Legend (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
10. Virgin born, we bow before thee (Anon German 14th cent)
11. Sing Earth (Traditional)
12. Good Christian men rejoice (Anon German 14th cent)
13. Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones)
14. What child is this? (“Greensleeves”)
15. O come, all ye faithful (“Adeste fideles”)
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I remember this carol service as I was living near Salisbury in 1965, and sang in the school choir!
Christmas carols purify , and stabilize the soul
A beautiful choir, in a beautiful place. A lovely variety of carols and their interpretations by a clearly sensitive choirmaster. The diction is so clear, the feelings so resonant. Thank you!! Quiet and peaceful when needed, very joyful when needed. Absolutely lovely!
Grateful.
Old Sarum is one of my treasured Cathedral sites in England. I've cherished their choristers these many, many years hence.
Glorious - many, many thanks to all involved, and of course to AoRCM for the upload. In particular I loved the "dramatised" Wenceslas, and Greensleeves was wonderful.
great !!!!
Oh wow. This is the LP my parents played every Christmas when I was a child. An interesting sound in the congregational carols, and a foretaste of the Willcocks harmonies in the last verse of “Oh come...”
Interesting you say that about O Come...I've thought about it over the years as I've played it in various places. There are various ways of course that one can arrange the harmonies to that tune but in the end the one that Willcocks popularised with the first Carols for Choirs in the 60s is the only one that, for me, really works. It is the obvious way to go, when you think about it - the minor/major changes at the climax and the rising bass in the final line couldn't successfully use other harmony, at least to my ears. I don't think his descants have been bettered, either. Happy New Year to you and all for 2021!
Thank you for uploading this one I remember seeing it in the shops when I was a child but it was the famous MFP recording from Guildford (the one that actually got into the mainstream album chart!!) that held sway in our household and then it was the broadcasts from that wonderful church somewhere in East Anglia... I like the lively tempo for "The First Nowell" by the way Thank You Like!
PS I've just finished listening to the whole recording what a surprise in the last stanza of "What child is this" with the organ suddenly coming in!! And that arrangement of "O Come All Ye Faithful"; it didn't even need a descant?!!. Well, that one certainly runs both King's College and Guildford close! Thank You and a VERY happy Christmas to you all at AORCM!!
At first I thought this was Rhodesian! No worries this is beautiful, Happy Christmas!!!
Or Austrian? (Salzburg). Salisburgo.
00:00 once in Royal David's City
3:18 A child this day
5:58 See amid the winter's snow
11:39 A Virgin most pure
14:18 Sleep Holy Babe
19:39 silent night
23:02 The first nowell
25:05 God rest ye merry gentlemen
28:29 a legend
31:06 Virgin born we bow before Thee
34:58 Good Christian men rejoice
36:47 Good king wenceslas
39:10 What Child is this?
42:16 O Come all ye faithful
Thank you for taking the trouble to do this.
Lovely, thank you. Sad to say, you have by now more than reached the period when I bought these recordings at their first publication!
Tempus fugit!
As Virgil almost definitely didn't add, It does indeed!