Welcome All Wonders! / Cathedral Choral Society

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	Ding! Dong! Merilly on High (arr. E. Nassor) - Ding! Dong! Merilly on High (arr. E. Nassor)
	Personet Hodie (arr. P. Snedecor) - Personet Hodie (arr. P. Snedecor)
	Adeste fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful) (arr. P. Halley) - Adeste fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful) (arr. P. Halley)
	Chanticleer - Chanticleer
	Lux Aurumque - Lux Aurumque
	3 Mystical Carols - 3 Mystical Carols: No. 3. Let us gather hand in hand
	A Child Is Born In Bethlehem - A Child Is Born In Bethlehem
	Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella (arr. K. Chapman) - Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella (arr. K. Chapman)
	Rejoice and Be Merry - Rejoice and Be Merry
	Adam Lay Ybounden - Adam Lay Ybounden
	Nova, Nova - Nova, Nova
	Good King Wenceslas (arr. L. Sowerby) - Good King Wenceslas (arr. L. Sowerby)
	The Holy Infant's Lullaby - The Holy Infant's Lullaby
	Welcome Yule - Welcome Yule
	Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child, Op. 25, No. 2, "Coventry Carol" - Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child, Op. 25, No. 2, "Coventry Carol"
	I Wonder as I Wander (arr. P. Snedecor) - I Wonder as I Wander (arr. P. Snedecor)
	Welcome All Wonders - Welcome All Wonders
	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. P. Halley) - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. P. Halley)
	Variations on Noel Nouvelet - Variations on Noel Nouvelet

Album Summary

Performers

• Eric Plutz (Organ)
• Paul Halley (Descant)
• Jeannie Eisenhour
• Melanie Steinkamp
• Rebecca Schendel
• Kathleen Sheu
• Jake Levin (Treble)
• Jon Bruno
• Deborah Sternberg
• Leslie Kruse
• Washington Symphonic Brass
• Edward Nassor (Carillon)
• Edward Nassor (Carillon)
• St. Ringers
• Washington Society

Composers

• Christmas Traditional
• Eric Whitacre (1970 - )
• John Biggs (1932 - )
• Kenneth Leighton (1929 - 1988)
• John Francis Wade (1711 - 1786)
• Conrad Susa (1935 - )
• Spanish Traditional
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Richard Wayne Dirksen (1921 - 2003)
• Leo Nestor (1948 - )
• Edwin Fissinger (1920 - 1990)
• Edward Nassor

Notes & Reviews:

This is an interesting mix of contemporary mixed-voice choir with organ and brass from the Cathedral Choral Society, the resident chorus of Washington National Cathedral. Features mostly contemporary pieces and arrangements of well-known Christmas works.

Notes & Reviews:

Personnel: Jake Levin (soprano, treble); Jeannette D. Warren, Margot T. Young, Kathleen Ying Shu Sheu, MaryKate Hotaling, Rebecca Christie, Portia Hargrove, Katelyn W. Kyser, Charlotte Jaeger, Jeannie Cummins Eisenhour, Jane Woodall, Rachel Barham, Phyllis Hannum, Catherine E. Ort Mabry, Nerissa Paglinauan, Linda Etheridge, Bridget Tunstall, Laura M. Connors, Susanna Beiser, Chris Markus, Janice L. Lockard, Mary Olch, Rebecca Schendel, Lynne Fitzhugh, Leslie Kruse, Laura F. Kieffer, Beth L. Law, Tarshwa Cooper, Clara Cohen (soprano); James M.E. Mixter, David Patterson , John Heaton, Matthew A. Reklau, David McGaw, Raymond Rhinehart, Woodie Fagan, Keith Anderson , Matthew Roberts, David L. Moulton, Dave Costanza, Christine H. Mulligan, James Turner, James Clay , James Newton (tenor); Charles Ervin, Walter Leathers, Ernest Abbott, Don Lassell, Hans Bjornson, Erik Stokstad, Andrew Thompson , George Cervantes, Brian Eriksen, Alfred Chiplin, Melvyn K. Prince, Chris Buechler, Eric Andersen, Kai Groennings, Bernhard D. Saxe, Stephen C. Roberts, Robert Woodall, Joe Bruno, Craig Reynolds, Harold Quayle, Paul Stokstad, Jonathan Lochhaas, Georg Dolzmann, Nikos Singelis, Steven B. Rich, James Kennedy, John Palmer, Joe Winters, David E. Williams (bass voice); Eric Plutz (organ, keyboards); Edward M. Nassor (carillon).

Recording information: National Cathedral, Washington D.C. (01/11/2004-01/14/2004).

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Works Details

Traditional, Christmas : Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)

• Performers: Edward Nassor (Carillon); Edward Nassor (Carillon)
• Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1588

Traditional, Christmas : Personent hodie (On this day Earth shall ring) (Piae Cantiones)

• Performers: St. Ringers; Washington Society
• Running Time: 3 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1582

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

• Performers: Eric Plutz (Organ); Washington Society; Paul Halley (Descant)
• Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1751

Dirksen, Richard Wayne : Chanticleer

• Performers: Washington Society; Eric Plutz (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Whitacre, Eric : Lux Aurumque

• Performers: Jeannie Eisenhour; Melanie Steinkamp; Rebecca Schendel; Washington Society
• Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Choral
• Written: 2000

Susa, Conrad : Let Us Gather Hand in Hand

• Performers: Washington Society; Eric Plutz (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Nestor, Leo : A Child Is Born :: Variations on "Puer natus in Bethlehem"

• Performers: Washington Society; Eric Plutz (Organ)
• Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

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

• Performer: Eric Plutz (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
• Written: 18th Century

Traditional, Christmas : Rejoice and Be Merry

• Performers: Washington Society; Eric Plutz (Organ); St. Ringers
• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : Adam lay ybounden, carol (English)

• Performer: Washington Society
• Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.

Biggs, John : Nova, Nova

• Performers: Eric Plutz (Organ); Kathleen Sheu; Washington Society
• Running Time: 4 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Traditional, Christmas : Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)

• Performers: Jake Levin (Treble); Eric Plutz (Organ); Washington Society; Jon Bruno
• Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1582

Traditional, Spanish : The Holy Infant's Lullaby (Text :: From the Hispanic mystery play, "Los Pastores")

• Performers: Washington Society; Eric Plutz (Organ)
• Running Time: 4 min. 59 sec.

Fissinger, Edwin : Welcome Yule

• Performers: Washington Society; Jon Bruno; Deborah Sternberg
• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Leighton, Kenneth : Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child (Text :: From the pageant of the shearmen and tailors, Coventry,

• Performers: Washington Society; Leslie Kruse
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

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

• Performer: Washington Symphonic Brass
• Running Time: 4 min. 25 sec.
• Written: by 1933

Dirksen, Richard Wayne : Welcome All Wonders, for soprano, chorus & organ

• Performers: Eric Plutz (Organ); Jeannie Eisenhour; Washington Society
• Running Time: 6 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

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

• Performers: Washington Society; Paul Halley (Descant); Eric Plutz (Organ)
• Notes: Composition written: 1840.
• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1840

Nassor, Edward : Variations on Noël Nouvelet

• Performers: Edward Nassor (Carillon); Edward Nassor (Carillon)
• Running Time: 4 min. 12 sec.