Cantique de Noël
Catalogue no. DCD34202
Price: £13.00 (including postage & packaging)
This collection of French music for Christmas includes works from Berlioz to Debussy. It features a number of traditional French melodies which have been adapted over the years to become familiar Christmas songs in English; but on this disc they are heard in their original French arrangements, and accompanied by the French-style organ in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford.
'Fervent, engaging, heart on sleeve interpretations in excellently immediate recorded sound – vraiment superbe!' Choir & Organ magazine
| 1 | Cantique de Noël | Adolphe Adam |
| 2 | L'adieu des bergers à la sainte famille (from L'enfance du Christ) |
Hector Berlioz |
| 3 | O mon âme (from L'enfance du Christ) | Hector Berlioz |
| 4 | Il est né le divin enfant | arr. Gabriel Fauré |
| 5 | Noël (Chant des religieuses de Uhland) | Charles Gounod |
| 6 | Domine, ergo credidi (from Oratorio de Noël) | Camille Saint-Saëns |
| 7 | Alleluia (from Oratorio de Noël) | Camille Saint-Saëns |
| 8 | Nous voici dans la ville (from 40 noëls anciens) |
arr. Léon Roques |
| 9 | Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (from 40 noëls anciens) |
arr. Léon Roques |
| 10 | Quittez, pasteurs (from 40 noëls anciens) | arr. Léon Roques |
| 11 | Noël nouvelet (from 40 noëls anciens) | arr. Léon Roques |
| 12 | La vierge à la crèche |
César Franck arr. |
| 13 | Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons | Claude Debussy |
| 14 | Coeur de Jésus enfant | Alexandre Guilmant |
| 15 | La neige | Jules Massenet |
| 16 | C'est aujourd'hui (from Noël au village) | Fernand de la Tombelle |
| 17 | Dans cieux règne l'allégresse (from Noël au village) |
Fernand de la Tombelle |
| 18 | Noël d'enfants | arr. Gabriel Fauré |
| 19 | Portuguese Hymn (Adeste fideles) | arr. Charles Gounod |
