Complete Vanguard Classics: Music For The Christmas Season

Complete Vanguard Classics: Music For The Christmas Season

Complete Vanguard Classics: Music For The Christmas Season
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Performer: Alfred Deller
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Music Label: MUSICAL CONCEPTS
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Pat-a-Pan (Burgundian)
  2. We Three Kings of Orient Are
  3. I Saw Three Ships
  4. Coventry Carol (2): 'Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child'
  5. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  6. Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)
  7. Once in Royal David's City
  8. Hajej, nynej, Jezishku (Rocking Carol) (Czech)
  9. The First Nowell (English)
  10. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
  11. Wither's Rocking Hymn ('Sweet baby, sleep! What ails my dear?'), carol for chorus
  12. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
  13. Wassail Song ('Here We Come A-Wassailing'), carol
  14. Dormi Jesu!
  15. The Boar's Head Carol
  16. Past Three O'clock, carol (English)
  17. Lullay my liking, for soprano & chorus, Op. 34/2, H. 129
  18. Adam Lay Ybounden
  19. Herrick's Carol, for voice & ensemble
  20. Angelus ad virginem (English)
  21. The Holly and the Ivy (English)
  22. Song of the Nuns of Chester ('The Chester Carol') (English)
  23. Winter-Rose, carol (English)
  24. In dulci jubilo, chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 368 (BC F110)
Music CD 2
  1. Deck the Halls (Welsh)
  2. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival)
  3. Lute-Book Lullaby
  4. Ye Shepherds, folk song
  5. Joy to the World (theme by Handel)
  6. Down in Yon Forest, carol (English)
  7. Blessed Be That Maid Marie (English)
  8. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming), for chorus
  9. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
  10. The Twelve Days of Christmas
  11. Wassail Song ('Here We Come A-Wassailing'), carol
  12. All my heart this night rejoices, hymn
  13. Joseph dearest, Joseph mine (Joseph, lieber Joseph mein), carol
  14. I Saw Three Ships
  15. How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (Children's Song of the Nativity) (Tune: Stowey) (English)
  16. The Birds
  17. The old yeare now away is fled (English)
  18. We Wish You a Merry Christmas (English)
Music CD 3
  1. Gymel
  2. Nowell, Nowell, Tidings True ('Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, this is the salutation')
  3. Sanctus
  4. Edi Beo Thu, Hevene Queene, carol (English)
  5. Qui Natus Est
  6. Burden and Carol, for consort
  7. Nova, Nova, Ave fit ex Eva
  8. Angelus ad virginem (English)
  9. Hail Mary Full of Grace (15th Century)
  10. In Die Nativitas
  11. There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (English)
  12. Kyrie, for 3 voices, MB 1
  13. Quid Petis, O Fili?, carol for 4 voices
  14. I Saw (English)
  15. Out Of Your Sleep (Seldon manuscript)
  16. Fauxbourdon, for ensemble
  17. Quam pulcra es, antiphon for 3 voices, MB 44
Music CD 4
  1. De Nativitate Domino
  2. Ave Maria
  3. Decet huius cunctis horis
  4. Hodie Christus natus est, for 4 voices
  5. Nesciens Mater
  6. Et in terra pax
  7. Crist and Sainte Marie
  8. Sancta Maria, non est tibi similis, respond & antiphon for 3 voices, MB 48 (probably by Binchois)
  9. O Maria virgo (isorythmic motet)
  10. Gloria
  11. Puer natus est nobis/Et filius, introit for 6 voices
  12. Foeno iacere
  13. Maria zart
  14. Beata progenies, for 3 voices
  15. Alleluya Psallat

Music reviews of Complete Vanguard Classics: Music For The Christmas Season

Music Review: The ne plus ultra of Christmas collections
Rating: 5 Stars

There are two kinds of Christmas recordings: the good ones (aimed at the few for whom Christmas is a holy day or at least a holiday of some significance) and the bad ones (aimed at everyone else). Of the good ones, there are those whose focus is musicological and antiquarian; such recordings are legion (relatively speaking). What remains are those whose true focus, however scholarly the approach of the performers, is the feast itself and its celebration. Of this select group this four-CD set may be the ne plus ultra.

Though all four CDs are precious, the first two are understandably the pick of the litter. Herein one will find presented virtually all the most justly loved Christmas carols and songs; some are a mere century old, others go back to the Middle Ages. Though some selections will inevitably be unfamiliar to listeners, all are truly inspired creations and will probably not long remain unfamiliar. One hears reflected in these carols the happiness and devotion that the commemoration of the birth of the Christ child has inspired for well-nigh two millennia.

The third and fourth CDs are somewhat more "adventurous"; that is, their relevance to Christmas present is somewhat tenuous. Because the instrumental accompaniment here has gone from a single lutenist (the great Desmond Dupré) to an ensemble of "period" instruments (viols, krummhorns, and all the rest of those now ubiquitous antiques, mostly under the direction of the once widely known specialist René Clemencic), it is most unlikely that these selections could or would be sung around the tree. This comment is not a complaint, however, merely a description.

Alfred Deller (1912-1979) and his consort (a group whose membership changed over the course of time, save for Deller himself and the great bass Maurice Bevan) sing these songs, carols, and motets with predictable beauty and sophistication. What is more, they sing with piety, joy, and reverence. These are the qualities that give this release enduring significance.

As has been true for Deller's other Vanguard recordings, this 4-CD set has come and gone, in one guise or another, about as often as the sun does on a windy and cloudy afternoon. When I purchased several copies of it, it wore this guise: A Celebration of Christmas: Carols through the Ages. Although it would be cheap at any price, it is, however, now substantially less expensive than it was previously. Get it while you can, just in case night falls for a while when this release, like its predecessors, also disappears.
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