Chanticleer sings Christmas
Chanticleer (vocal ensemble), Logan Shields (countertenor), Matthew Knickman (baritone), Adam Ward (countertenor), Gerrod Pagenkopf (countertenor), Andrew van Allsburg (tenor), Matthew Mazzola (tenor), Kory Reid (countertenor)
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Engineered Classical Album
Technically the singing is immaculate, though some of the arrangements (‘Away in a Manger’, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’) may be a little sugar-coated for some.
Chanticleer sings Christmas
Chanticleer (vocal ensemble), Logan Shields (countertenor), Matthew Knickman (baritone), Adam Ward (countertenor), Gerrod Pagenkopf (countertenor), Andrew van Allsburg (tenor), Matthew Mazzola (tenor), Kory Reid (countertenor)
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Engineered Classical Album
Technically the singing is immaculate, though some of the arrangements (‘Away in a Manger’, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’) may be a little sugar-coated for some.
About
The Christmas concerts of Chanticleer are an institution in the USA, and international tours and recordings have made the brilliant male-voice ensemble, based in San Francisco, familiar to audiences all over the world. As Gramophone has written, "Chanticleer, it seems, can sing just about anything," and Chanticleer sings Christmas bears that out, embracing traditional carols and gospel numbers, plainsong, European and Mexican music of the 16th and 17th centuries, and composers and arrangers of the present day.
Contents and tracklist
- Chanticleer, Logan Shields (countertenor), Matthew Knickman (baritone), Adam Ward (countertenor), Gerrod Pagenkopf (countertenor), Andrew van Allsburg (tenor), Matthew Mazzola (tenor), Kory Reid (countertenor)
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2020
Technically the singing is immaculate, though some of the arrangements (‘Away in a Manger’, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’) may be a little sugar-coated for some.
5th December 2020
Its folksy snow-scene cover hides a well-conceived programme, the choir just a dozen-strong but blended, clear, with a west coast zing.
28th November 2020
Setting a middle way between scholarly choral discovery and joyful seasonal sing-song...the 12 male singers of the long-lived San Francisco-based ensemble show off their versatility — and impressively penetrating soprano falsettists — in Renaissance treasures as well as Canadian, Spanish and German carols.
