Washington Master Chorale
Thomas Colohan, conductor
“A cornucopia of time-burnished carols, motets, folk ballads, shape–note hymns, and chants…”
WFMT Chicago
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1. Hodie, Christus natus est
Healey Willan (1880–1968)
2. little tree
Steve Heitzeg (b. 1959)
3. Bogoróditse Dyévo
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
4. Early Winter Tree
Russell Nadel (b. 1983)
5. A Babe is Born
William Matthias (1934–1992)
Three Nativity Carols
Stephen Paulus (1949–2014)
6. The Holly and the Ivy
7. This Endris Night
8. Wonder Tidings
9. The Three Kings
Healey Willan
10. Today the Virgin
John Tavener (1944–2013)
11. Hodie, Christus natus est from 3 Mottetti Latini 1982
Niels la Cour (b. 1944)
12. The First Nowell
arr. David Willcocks (1919–2015)
13. Wondrous Love
arr. John Jacob Niles (1892–1980)
14. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Anon
15. O Tannenbaum
Annon
16. A Christmas Carol
Charles Ives (1874—1954)
17. In the Bleak Midwinter
Gustav Holst (1874–1934), arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)
18. God rest you merry, Gentlemen
arr. David Willcocks
Press:
“The best classical Christmas recordings of 2017:…a cornucopia of time-burnished carols, motets, folk ballads, shape–note hymns, and chants…”
LISA FLYNN, WFMT Chicago