Once were Christmas Angels - The Pure Sound of Boy Trebles

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Album Summary

Performers

• Peter White (Organ)
• James Lyle (Voice)
• Christopher Harvey (Voice)
• Michael Criswell (Treble)
• Paul Dutton (Treble)
• Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Robin Walker (Treble)
• Daniel Ludford-Thomas (Treble)
• David Elias (Voice)
• Owen Pugh (Voice)
• David Rees-Williams (Voice)
• Jeremy Bowyer (Treble)
• Ian Cooper (Voice)
• Peter Davey (Treble)
• Michael Mace (Voice)

Composers

• John Goss (Composer) (1800 - 1880)
• Traditional Spiritual
• Franz Gruber (Composer) (1787 - 1863)
• Christmas Traditional
• William James Kirkpatrick (1838 - 1921)
• Howard Blake (1938 - )
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Henry John Gauntlett (1805 - 1876)
• Kenneth Leighton (1929 - 1988)
• John Rutter (1945 - )
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
• Richard Runciman Terry (1865 - 1938)
• Michael Head (2 (Classical Composer)) (1900 - 1976)
• Edward Bairstow (1874 - 1946)

Notes & Reviews:

Something different & wonderfully enjoyable! The new Boy Trebles compilation awaited by collectors from the 25-year period covered by Abbey Label. It is much more intimate than a normal carols record and focuses on the purity of sound of the best boy trebles and will serve the thousands also in the USA who bought "The Better Land". This is an essential document of British Choir-boy performance style and those unforgettable pure voices captured over the length and breadth of the land by Harry Mudd, MBE.

"The boys heard here are, of course, among the vocal creme de la creme but is it any wonder that they all sing with such commitment and confidence?... This is probably not a disc to play through at one sitting. However, it will give a great deal of pleasure, I'm sure, and not just to aficionados of the treble voice." John Quinn - MusicWeb International, 13/07/2007

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Traditional, Christmas : The Holly and the Ivy (English)

• Performers: Peter White (Organ); James Lyle (Voice); Christopher Harvey (Voice)
• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1710

Traditional, Christmas : Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep

• Performer: Michael Criswell (Treble)
• Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Gauntlett, Henry John : Once in Royal David's City, carol

• Performer: Paul Dutton (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: circa 1850

Head, Michael : The Little Road to Bethlehem

• Performer: Paul Dutton (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

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

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 1 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1588

Traditional, Christmas : Quem pastores laudavere (Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410)

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : O Little Town of Bethlehem

• Performer: Paul Dutton (Treble)
• Running Time: 4 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1868

Traditional, Christmas : Christmas is coming

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 1 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Kirkpatrick, William J. : Away in a manger :: Cradle Song) (New English Hymnal 22)

• Performer: Michael Criswell (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1885

Traditional, Christmas : A Child This Day is Born (English)

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 2 min. 47 sec.

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

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : I Saw Three Ships, carol

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 1 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1666

Bairstow, Edward : The Blessed Virgin Mary's Cradle Song

• Performer: Robin Walker (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: circa 1892

Blake, Howard : The Snowman

• Performer: Daniel Ludford-Thomas (Treble)
• Running Time: 4 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1981

Rutter, John : Candlelight Carol

• Performer: Daniel Ludford-Thomas (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1984

Rutter, John : Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, carol for female chorus & harp (or piano) (from Dancing Day cycle)

• Performer: David Elias (Voice)
• Running Time: 2 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1974

Goss, John : See Amid the Winter's Snow, for chorus

• Performer: Owen Pugh (Voice)
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : King Jesus Hath A Garden (Dutch)

• Performer: David Rees-Williams (Voice)
• Running Time: 3 min. 51 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Handel, George Frideric : Rejoice, the Lord is King, HWV 286

• Performer: Jeremy Bowyer (Treble)
• Running Time: 1 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral
• Written: circa 1747

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Wither's Rocking Hymn ("Sweet baby, sleep! What ails my dear?"), carol for chorus

• Performer: Ian Cooper (Voice)
• Running Time: 1 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1928

Traditional Spiritual : All God's Children Got a Robe

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

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

• Performer: Paul Dutton (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
• Written: by 1933

Britten, Benjamin : A New Year Carol :: 5. New Year Carol

• Performer: Peter Davey (Treble)
• Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1935

Terry, Richard Runciman : Myn Lyking

• Performer: Michael Mace (Voice)
• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Gruber, Franz : Silent Night

• Performer: Andrew Wicks (Treble)
• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1818