Davies: One star, at last; Tavener, etc / Cleobury, Quinney

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Album Summary

Performers

• Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Micaela Haslam (Soprano)
• Kim Porter (Alto)
• Pamela Priestley-Smith
• Carolyn Foulkes (Soprano)
• Robert Johnston (Tenor)
• Margaret Feaviour (Soprano)
• Neil MacKenzie (Tenor)
• Jennifer Adams-Barbaro
• Eleanor Bron (Spoken Vocals)

Conductor

• Cleobury, Stephen

Ensemble

• BBC Singers

Composers

• Francis Grier (1955 - )
• Jean Belmont Ford (1939 - )
• Jerzy Kornowicz (1959 - )
• John Harbison (1938 - )
• John Harle (1956 - )
• Bo Holten (Composer/Conductor) (1948 - )
• Judith Weir (1954 - )
• Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - )
• James MacMillan (Composer/Conductor) (1959 - )
• Richard Rodney Bennett (Composer) (1936 - 2012)
• Roxanna Panufnik (1968 - )
• Steve Martland (1959 - )
• Judith Bingham (1952 - 1986)
• Conrad Susa (1935 - )
• John Tavener (Composer) (1944 - )
• Peter Maxwell Davies (1934 - )
• Howard Goodall (1958 - )
• Carl Rütti (1949 - )

Notes & Reviews:

This Christmas CD includes eight new carols several premiere recordings, and a selection of music serious and light-hearted, contemplative and joyful by some of the leading British, European and North American choral composers of the day. Composers include Martland, Weir, Ades, MacMillan, Tavener, Kornowicz, Rodney Bennet and Harle, and features World Premiere Recordings!

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Holten, Bo : Nowell sing we now

• Performers: Robert Quinney (Organ); Micaela Haslam (Soprano)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Martland, Steve : Carols (3), for chorus

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 9 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Carl Rütti (1949 - ) : I Wonder as I Wander, for choir & organ

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Weir, Judith : Illuminare, Jerusalem

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1985

Bingham, Judith : The Shepherd's Gift, for chorus & organ

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Grier, Francis : Corpus Christi Carol, for chorus & organ

• Performers: Kim Porter (Alto); Pamela Priestley-Smith; Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Thomas Adès (Conductor/Composer) (1971 - ) : The Fayrfax Carol

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 4 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1997

Susa, Conrad : The Shepherds Sing, for chorus & organ

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Ford, Jean Belmont : Nativitas, for choir

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 2 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

MacMillan, James : Seinte Mari moder milde

• Performers: Robert Quinney (Organ); Carolyn Foulkes (Soprano); Robert Johnston (Tenor); Margaret Feaviour (Soprano)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 7 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Tavener, John : Today the Virgin, for chorus

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 2 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1989

Kornowicz, Jerzy : Oczekiwanie (Waiting), for chorus

• Performers: Margaret Feaviour (Soprano); Neil MacKenzie (Tenor); Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 9 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Bennett, Richard R. : Carol ("Deep in the Fading Leaves of Night"), for chorus

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Maxwell Davies, Peter : One star, at last

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 3 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1984

Harbison, John : O Magnum Mysterium, for chorus (short setting)

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 2 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1991

Panufnik, Roxanna : Sleep, Little Jesus, Sleep, for chorus

• Performers: Jennifer Adams-Barbaro; Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Goodall, Howard : Romance of the Angels, for chorus & organ

• Performer: Robert Quinney (Organ)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Harle, John : Mrs Beeton's Christmas Plum Pudding, for chorus

• Performers: Robert Quinney (Organ); Eleanor Bron (Spoken Vocals)
• Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Notes: Temple Church, London / Maida Vale Studio 3 (06/29/2000-06/30/2000)
• Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas