Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns and Carols / Robert Shaw - Telarc - TLC 80377 -

All of these carols are heard in delightful arrangements by Alic Parker and Robert Shaw. The arrangements date from the early 1950s and the popular concerts and recordings of the Robert Shaw Chorale. The Choral's sound in these recent recordings is strikingly professional: perfect intonation, lovely tone qualities, and beautiful expression.

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Traditional : God rest ye merry, gentlemen

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 18 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Angels we have heard on high

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Anonymous : O come, O come, Emanuel

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : How Unto Bethlehem?

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 17 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Boar's Head Carol

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : O Tannenbaum

Performer: Tim Stalter (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 1 sec.
Form: Christmas
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Masters in this hall

Performers: Victor Ledbetter (Baritone); Donna Carter (Soprano)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 9 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Christmas
Written: 16th Century
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Kirkpatrick, William J. : Away in a manger

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 37 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Good Christian men, rejoice

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 22 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : The Holly and the Ivy

Performer: Frank Timmerman (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Good King Wenceslas

Performers: Katherine Murray (Mezzo Soprano); Victor Ledbetter (Baritone)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Wassail Song

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 18 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Christmas
Written: 16th Century
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 21 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Fum, fum, fum

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Mary had a baby

Performer: Christopher Cock (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 16 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Hacia Belén va un borrico

Performer: Victor Ledbetter (Baritone)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: Spanish
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Christ was born on Christmas Day

Performers: Katherine Murray (Mezzo Soprano); Victor Ledbetter (Baritone)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 47 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : March of the Kings

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 14 sec.
Form: March
Language: French
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child "Coventry Carol"

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Christmas
Written: 16th Century
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Deck the hall

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 7 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Cherry Tree Carol

Performer: Christopher Cock (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 4 min. 2 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Hopkins, John Henry : We three kings

Performers: Victor Ledbetter (Baritone); Ronald Burrichter (Tenor); Wayne Baughman (Bass)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Saboly, Nicolas : Touro-louro-louro

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Christmas
Written: 17th Century
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : So blest a sight

Performer: Donna Carter (Soprano)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : I saw three ships

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 27 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : What child is this?

Performers: Christopher Cock (Tenor); Victor Ledbetter (Baritone)
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Christmas
Written: 16th Century
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Susanni

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 1 min. 17 sec.
Form: Christmas
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Holst, Gustav : In the bleak mid-winter

Conductor: Robert Shaw
Ensemble: Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Christmas
Written: by 1906
Language: English
Studio/Live: Studio

Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns and Carols / Robert Shaw

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