Sweet Was the Song: English Music for Christmas

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Album Summary

Composers

• Christmas Traditional
• Richard Rodney Bennett (Composer) (1936 - 2012)
• Kenneth Leighton (1929 - 1988)
• Elizabeth Poston (1905 - 1987)
• Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
• Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Anonymous, English
• William Walton (Composer) (1902 - 1983)

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Works Details

Traditional, Christmas : There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (English)

• Running Time: 5 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1420

Howells, Herbert : Carol-Anthems (3) for Chorus

• Running Time: 3 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1919

Britten, Benjamin : Hymn to the Virgin

• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1930

Bennett, Richard R. : Sweet was the song, for chorus

• Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Bennett, Richard R. : There is no rose, for chorus

• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Warlock, Peter : I Saw a Fair Maiden

• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1927

Anonymous, English : Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber (Harmonia Sacra. London, 1767)

• Running Time: 5 min. 50 sec.
• Written: 17th Century

Howells, Herbert : Here is the little door

• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1918

Warlock, Peter : Lullaby my Jesus

• Running Time: 3 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Bennett, Richard R. : That younge child, for chorus

• Running Time: 1 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Leighton, Kenneth : Carols (3), Op. 25

• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Bennett, Richard R. : Out of your sleep

• Running Time: 1 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas

Bennett, Richard R. : Susanni, for chorus

• Running Time: 1 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Warlock, Peter : Bethlehem Down

• Running Time: 4 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1927

Traditional, Christmas : I Wonder As I Wander (American)

• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Written: by 1933

Warlock, Peter : Benedicamus Domino

• Running Time: 1 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1918

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : The Blessed Son of God, for chorus (arranged from "Hodie," Christmas cantata)

• Running Time: 2 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1954

Traditional, Christmas : Coventry Carol (2) :: "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"

• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1498

Walton, William : What Cheer?, carol arrangement for chorus (Christmas Carols no 2)

• Running Time: 1 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1931

Poston, Elisabeth : Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

• Running Time: 3 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1967

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Wassail Song ("Wassail, wassail, all over the town"), carol for chorus ("Gloucestershire Wassail")

• Running Time: 2 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic