Christmas with Chanticleer and Dawn Upshaw

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Album Summary

Performers

• Chanticleer
• Dawn Upshaw
• David Marshall (Baritone)
• Kevin Baum (Tenor)
• Matthew Alber (Treble)
• Joseph Jennings (Rattle)

Composers

• Hugo Distler (Conductor/Organ) (1908 - 1942)
• Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (Composer) (1963 - )
• Joseph Jennings (1954 - )
• Christmas Traditional
• Thomas Bold (1952 - )
• Welsh Traditional
• Franz Gruber (Composer) (1787 - 1863)
• John Tavener (Composer) (1944 - )
• Healey Willan (1880 - 1968)
• R. Fisher Boyce

Notes & Reviews:

One can't emphasize enough the beauty and sumptuous blend the choir achieves on almost every piece--and the seasoned performance style that brings each selection to its fullest expression.

Notes & Reviews:

Personnel: Kevin Baum (tenor saxophone).

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Works Details

Traditional, Christmas : This is the truth sent from above (English)

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 4 min. 41 sec.

Tavener, John : A Christmas Round, for chorus

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 1 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1990

Tavener, John : Today the Virgin, for chorus

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1989

Distler, Hugo : Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 1 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Traditional, Christmas : Noël nouvelet, carol (French)

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 16th Century

Bold, Thomas : A Lullaby (to the tune of Kirkpatick's Away in a Manger)

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 3 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Traditional, Christmas : The First Nowell (English)

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 3 min. 20 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1823

Willan, Healey : The Three Kings

• Performers: David Marshall (Baritone); Chanticleer; Kevin Baum (Tenor); Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Mantyarvi, Jaakko : Die Stimme des Kindes, for 8 part men's chorus

• Performers: Chanticleer; Kevin Baum (Tenor); Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 5 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Welsh Traditional : Suo Gân (Lullaby), song

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Traditional, Christmas : Esta noche nace un Niño (Spanish)

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.

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

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 3 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1498

Boyce, R. Fisher : Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, revivalist hymn

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Notes: This work was written in collaboration with Adger M. Pace.
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Form: Choral

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

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 4 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas

Jennings, Joseph : Mary and the Baby Medley

• Performers: Matthew Alber (Treble); Chanticleer; Joseph Jennings (Rattle); Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 7 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Gruber, Franz : Silent Night

• Performers: Chanticleer; Dawn Upshaw
• Running Time: 4 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1818