Dormi Jesu: A Caius Christmas
Catalogue no: DCD34152
Price: £13.00 (including postage and packaging)
Originally commissioned by the BBC Music Magazine and used as the cover disc on the Christmas edition in 2011, this recording is a seasonal collection including carols by Caians Thomas Hewitt Jones and Peter Tranchell.
'Superb sound, and singing burgeoning with colour and confidence' BBC Music Magazine
'This is a disc of proper Christmas repertoire, and is particularly astute in its programming as it also includes Webern's Dormi, Jesu - a piece that rarely appears in Christmas collections. Gramophone
'A satisfying and fresh package' Allmusic.com
1 | Es ist ein Ros entsprungen | Michael Praetorius arr. Jan Sandstrom |
2 | A Patre unigenitus | Carl Rutti |
3 | The Holly and the Ivy | Matthew Owens |
4 | Here is the little door | Herbert Howells |
5 | Rocking Carol | trad. Czech arr. Edward Higginbottom |
6 | What child is this? | Thomas Hewitt Jones |
7 | Sussex Carol | trad. English arr. David Willcocks |
8 | Stille Nacht | Franz Xaver Gruber arr. Geoffrey Webber |
9 | In dulci jubilo | trad. German arr. Robert Lucas de Pearsall |
10 | If ye would hear the angels sing | Peter Tranchell |
11 | Hymne a la Vierge | Pierre Villette |
12 | Wassail Carol | William Mathias |
13 | Ave Maria | Robert Parsons |
14 | Dormi, Jesu | Anton Webern |
15 | Videntes stellam | Francis Poulenc |
16 | Make we joy now in this fest | William Walton |
17 | Hills of the North, rejoice | Martin Shaw arr. Geoffrey Webber |
18 | O magnum mysterium | Giovanni Gabrieli |
19 | Of the Father's heart begotten | trad. arr. Magnus Williamson |
20 | Resonet in laudibus | Sigfrid Karg-Elert |