Cantate Hodie: Sing Forth This Day!
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Performer: Peter BianchiComposer: Craig Courtney
Composer: Harold Darke
Composer: Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
Composer: Kieren MacMillan
Composer: Joseph M. Martin
Composer: Leo Nestor
Composer: Stephen Harrison Paulus
Composer: James Pierpont
Composer: Glenn L. Rudolph
Composer: Mack Wilberg
Conductor: Brady R. Allred
Performer: Handbells of Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church
Performer: Pittsurgh Symphony Brass
Performer: Neil Stahurski
Performer: Candace Erb
Performer: Gary Cooper
Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD
CD Release Date: 2002-10-08
Music Label: Clarion
Soundtracks:
- Joseph Willcox Jenkins: Cantate Hodie (Sing Forth This Day), Op. 197 - World Premiere Recording
- Harold Darke/arr. by Carol Barnett : In the Bleak Midwinter
- Settings by Joseph M. Martin: Two Movements for Advent:
- Settings by Joseph M. Martin: Two Movements for Advent:
- Mack Wilberg: Two Carols - Lullee, lullai, lullo, lullabye (O, Who Will Come and Listen This Night?) - World Premiere Recording
- Mack Wilberg: Two Carols - Gloria tibi domine (A Little Child There Is Ybore) - World Premiere Recording
- Setting by Leo Nestor: All My Heart This Night Rejoices
- Glenn L. Rudolph: The Dream Isaiah Saw - World Premiere Recording
- Setting by Leo Nestor: Silent Night
- Stephen Paulus: We Sing Thy Birth: So Hallow'd is the Time (William Shakespeare) - World Premiere Recording
- Stephen Paulus: We Sing Thy Birth: This Happy Morn (John Milton) - World Premiere Recording
- Stephen Paulus: We Sing Thy Birth: Sing, Hevin Imperial, Most of Hicht! (William Dunbar) - World Premiere Recording
- Kieren MacMillan: Wither's Carol - World Premiere Recording
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - A Partridge from 6th century Rome
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Two Turtle Doves from 15th century France
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Three French Hens from 16th century Italy
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Four Calling Birds from 17th century Italy
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Five Gold Rings from 18th century Germany
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Six Geese a-Laying from 18th century Austria
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Seven Swans a-Swimming from 19th century France
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Eight Maids a-Milking from 19th century Germany
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Nine Ladies Dancing from 19th century Austria
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Ten Lords a-Leaping from 19th century Italy
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Eleven Pipers Piping from 19th century Russia
- Craig Courtney: Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas - Twelve Drummers Drumming from 19th century United States of America
- Arr. by David Willcocks: Jingle, bells
Music reviews of Cantate Hodie: Sing Forth This Day!
Music Review: Bach Choir Pittsburgh: Good sound, Festive Music, Lively Occasion
Rating: 5 Stars
The moment you spin this disc in surround super audio sound, you are there in Pittsburgh, as multiple sound channels effectively re-create the venue, the Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, and its E.F. Skinner organ. You are probably quite happy to be celebrating the holidays with these singers and players.
Like a British set of traditional lessons and sung carols, this is an occasion of seasonal community celebration.
The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is joined by brass players from the local symphony orchestra. This band learned its chops and then some, not least under long-time music director William Steinberg. Strong musical foundations in Pittsburgh were further enhanced by a whole renowned host of additional guest conductors, and later music directors, passing through the likes of Andre Previn, Lorin Maazel, Marek Janowski, to the current leader Manfred Honek.
The opening number is a medley cantata of familiar Christmas carol favorites, arranged and set by composer Jenkins. Then comes Harold Darke's equally familiar modern carol, In The Bleak Midwinter. Other settings follow, leading up to contemporary composer outings, with three carols from Stephen Paulus and two carols from Mark Wilberg and one from Kieran MacMillan. Paulus set texts from Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Dunbar. Wilberg and MacMillan are working with even older holiday texts, though there is nothing sleepy or dusty about their settings of those older texts. None of this world premier holiday music mars or detracts from the familiar festivities and overall sense of occasion already set. The whole program leans towards a combination of familiar and new, but the happiness and welcome keep time with seasonal song and ritual down through the ages.
To wrap up, we get a really fun setting of the traditional Twelve Days Of Christmas, varied across quite different musical styles of previous periods in the history of western music - each accumulating and repeating verse edging towards a raucous finale, written more or less in the brass band style of John Philip Sousa, thanks to composer transcribers Brady Allred and Daniel Shaw. Then David Willcock's arrangement of Jingle Bells brings the concert to a bright close.
The brass excel in both their accompanist and solo bits, offering clear and apt music to match the largish choir's heft, finesse and vocal qualities.
Unless you hate Christmas, and the holiday season in general, or maybe if you are not all that taken with modernized harmonies in extension of the existing carols traditions - you will probably enjoy the warmth and quality of this holiday music SA-CD. Even a grinch or two might smile, maybe.
Description of Cantate Hodie: Sing Forth This Day!
THis SUPER AUDIO HYBRID CD is playable on ALL CD players but will reveal full, Five Channel Sound on SACD players!A connoisseur's Christmas! Clarion Records is thrilled to present one of the most exciting new seasonal CDs to come around in a LONG time! Featuring the artistry of the world acclaimed Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Brass, Cantate Hodie features an imaginative program of originals and arrangements that are sure to warm the heart and treat the ears! A sure-fire hit is the Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas arranged by Craig Courtney, and transcribed by Brady Allred & Daniel Shaw.
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