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“marvelous”
“…your must-have Christmas CD for 2024! Along with the excellent recorded sound, capturing all the grandeur of the space, the immaculate performances and sparkling repertoire will delight and inspire you, filling your yuletide with seasonal joy.”
Murray Somerville, The American Organist
“eloquently encapsulating the season’s drama, joyfulness and beauty”
Michael Quinn, Choir & Organ
“incredible solos and intimate gestures that flow with beauty…a triumphant climate of meticulous singing [with] strong attention to tone and execution.”
“much joy and gloriousness as the choir and organ make an instant and lasting impression.”
Tom Haugen, Take Effect
“The choir's commitment to inclusivity and community is borne out by selections featuring new arrangements and songs by women, composers of colour, and American and non-American composers (Perinpanayagam hailing from Britain, for example), the result a recording that's timely in mindset and sensibility. At the same time, certain time-honoured traditions remain firmly in place, namely the precision of the choir's singing and the jubilant tone of the material they deliver…”
“…As the Rector, the Rev. Morgan S. Allen, states in his introduction to the release, the album's music ‘expresses who we in this Church have been and who the incarnate God hopes we and the whole world will become.’ The latter value has never been more critical when acceptance and tolerance are so necessary towards realizing the ideal of a world community. At twenty songs and eighty minutes, the release is not only a comprehensive collection but offers a superb soundtrack for any festive gathering.”
Ron Schepper, Textura
The Composers
The Great Glad Tidings Tell: Carols from Copley Square
The Choir of Trinity Church Boston, dir. Colin Lynch
Album Release: December 13, 2024
Catalogue #: APL22374
Label: Acis
Track count: 20
Total Time: 79’15”
UPC: 198937154221 (digital)
UPC: 198999122374 (CD)
Angels We Have Heard on High, arr. Jerrick Cavagnaro (b. 1996)
2. Coventry Carol, arr. B.E. Boykin (b. 1989)
3. Masters in this Hall, arr. Cavagnaro
4. What Child is This? Thomas Hewitt Jones (b. 1984)
5. Audete, Gaudete, arr. Ward Swingle (1927–2015)
6. Have you Seen the Baby Jesus? Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962)
7. O Little Town of Bethlehem, arr. Richard Webster (b. 1952)
8. There is No Rose, Jessica Nelson (b. 1983)
9. The Holly and the Ivy, Stuart Thompson (b. 1970)
10. In Bethlehem Above, Yshani Perinpanayagam (b. 1983)
11. O Come, all ye Faithful, arr. Webster
12. Що то за предиво в світі новина, (What is this great wonder of the world?) arr. Andriy Hnatyshyn (1906–1995)
13. Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day, James Burton (b. 1974)
14. Ave Maria, Robert Parsons (c. 1535–1572)
15. The Magi’s Dream, James Whitbourn (1963–2024)
16. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, arr. Webster/Craig Phillips (b. 1961)
17. The Holy Boy, John Ireland (1879–1962)
18. The Oxen, Jessica French (b. 1984)
19. The First Nowell, arr. Paul Halley (b. 1952)
20. Toccata-Gigue on the Sussex Carol, George Baker (b. 1951)
Total Time: 79:15
Recorded at Trinity Church in the City of Boston, May 28–31, 2024
Links: The Choir of Trinity Church Boston | Colin Lynch, conductor | Jerrick Cavagnaro, organ |
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