Catholic Christmas Classics / The Cathedral Singers

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Album Summary

Performers

• David Willcocks (Descant)
• John Tanis (Hand Bells)
• William Combs (Voice)
• Larry Long (Hand Bells)
• Lorelei McDermott (Soprano)
• Cary Lovett (Voice)

Conductor

• Proulx, Richard

Ensemble

• Metropolis Chamber Players

Composers

• Pietro Yon (1886 - 1943)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814)
• Christmas Traditional
• Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621)
• Adolphe Adam (1803 - 1856)
• John Francis Wade (1711 - 1786)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Franz Gruber (Composer) (1787 - 1863)
• Johann Schultz (1747 - 1800)
• Pietro Adolfo Bossi (1834 - 1896)
• James R. Murray (circa 1841 - 1905)

Notes & Reviews:

Features classic, well-known religious Christmas songs and hymns, all beautifully performed by The Cathedral Singers, a professional recording group from Chicago.

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Works Details

Mendelssohn, Felix : Festgesang "Hark! The herald angels sing"

• Performer: David Willcocks (Descant)
• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1840

Murray, James R. : Away in a Manger

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1877

Traditional, Christmas : Go Tell It on the Mountain, Christmas song (American)

• Performers: John Tanis (Hand Bells); William Combs (Voice); Larry Long (Hand Bells)
• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 8 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1900

Gruber, Franz : Silent Night

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1818

Traditional, Christmas : Angels We Have Heard on High

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 3 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1840

Yon, Pietro : Gesú bambino

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 4 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1917

Praetorious, Michael : Musae Sioniae

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 1600

Schultz, Johann : O Dear Little Children, carol for chorus

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1700

Handel, George Frideric : Der Messias :: For Unto Us a Child Is Born

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 4 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1741

Traditional, Christmas : Gabriel's Message (Basque)

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1582

Adam, Adolphe : Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night")

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 5 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1851

Traditional, Christmas : Fum, Fum, Fum (Catalan)

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 1 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1840

Bossi, Pietro Adolfo : Puer natus in Bethlehem, for chorus

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Reichardt, Johann Friedrich : Sleep, Holy Babe, for chorus

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Traditional, Christmas : Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella ("Un flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle")

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
• Written: 18th Century

Traditional, Christmas : A la rurru niño

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 4 min. 6 sec.

Traditional, Christmas : The Huron Indian Carol ("'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime"), carol (Quebecois)

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (W zlobie lezy)

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post-Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1921

Wade, John Francis : O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 4 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1751

Traditional, Christmas : Resonet in Laudibus (Piae Cantiones)

• Performers: Lorelei McDermott (Soprano); Cary Lovett (Voice)
• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Traditional, Christmas : What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1600

Traditional, Christmas : The First Nowell (English)

• Conductor: Richard Proulx
• Ensemble: Metropolis Chamber Players
• Notes: Ascension Lutheran Church, Riverside, IL (07/20/2003-07/22/2003)
• Running Time: 3 min. 55 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1823