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Nowel: Advent & Beyond

Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward

Nowel: Advent & Beyond

Nowel: Advent & Beyond

Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward

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Christmas comes in new and unexpected guises – like last leaf’s fall, in Rowan Williams’s poem Advent Calendar. Following three acclaimed Delphian recordings of Tudor music, Toby Ward and Ensemble Pro Victoria bring fresh, contemporary colours to the seasons of Advent and Christmas; the mood is quiet anticipation, guarded joy, sometimes even fear and uncertainty, as the Virgin – the spotless Rose at the still centre of it all – sings her son to sleep amidst death and persecution. Williams narrates the Nativity story, around which the choir weave Hugo Distler’s searching polyphonic variations; Piers Connor Kennedy’s Nowel el el for harp and just six men’s voices is an intimate companion piece – or contrast – to Britten’s famous carol cycle, and has its first recording here by the group for which it was written.

Contents and tracklist

Piers Connor Kennedy, Pier Connor Kennedy: Advent Calendar
Work length4:38
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: Isaiah 9: 2, 6–7
Work length0:33
Distler, H: Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 1, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Work length1:10
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: Luke 1: 26–38
Work length1:48
Distler, H: Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 2, Das Röslein, das ich meine
Work length1:30
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: Luke 1: 39–45
Work length0:44
Distler, H: Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 3, Meine Seele erhebt / Wir bitten dich
Work length1:58
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: Luke 2: 1–7
Work length0:48
Distler, H: Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 4, Das Blümelein, so kleine
Work length1:20
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: Luke 2: 8–16
Work length1:01
Distler, H: Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 5, Die Hirten zu der Stunden
Work length1:11
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: Matthew 2: 1–12
Work length1:30
Distler, H: Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 6, Lob, Ehr sei Gott, dem Vater
Work length1:59
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: Luke 2: 25–32
Work length0:52
Distler, H: Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 7, So singen wir all Amen
Work length1:09
Bible Verse, Pier Connor Kennedy, Hugo Distler, Herbert Howells, David McGregor, William Byrd, Philip Stopford, Michael Praetorius: John 3: 16
Work length0:18
Piers Connor Kennedy, Pier Connor Kennedy: Nowel el el: I. Procession O Emmanuel
Work length0:53
Kennedy, P C: Nowel el el
Work length28:42
II. That lovely lady sat and song
Track length2:52
III. Owt of your slepe aryse and wake
Track length1:44
IV. This flour is fayre and fresche of heue
Track length3:24
V. Puer nobis natus est
Track length2:30
VI. Nowel el el
Track length1:56
VII. O sisters too
Track length5:13
VIII. Of a rose, a lovely rose
Track length2:48
IX. When Cryst was born of Mary fre
Track length1:35
X. This rose is reed of colour bryght
Track length3:43
XI. A babe is borne of hye natewre
Track length2:00
XII. Recession: O Emmanuel
Track length0:57
Howells: A Spotless Rose
Work length3:09
David McGregor: O Oriens
Work length3:35
Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby
Work length3:24
Stopford: Lully, lulla, lullay
Work length4:24
Michael Praetorius, Melchior Vulpius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Work length4:45

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