The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford & Stephen Farr – This Christmas Night (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Resonus Classics is proud to release an album featuring world premiere recordings of contemporary Christmas carols from the latter half of the twentieth-century and the beginning of the twenty-first, performed by The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford under the direction of Stephen Farr.

The album includes a world premiere recording by Hafliði Hallgrímsson entitled Joseph and the Angel, which was written specially for this album. Also included are several world premiere recordings by leading composers including Peter Maxwell Davies, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Richard Allain, Matthew Martin, Gabriel Jackson, Judith Bingham, Cecilia McDowall and Thomas Hyde.

Other works include Anthony Piccolo’s I look from afar, John McCabe’s Mary laid her child, Malcolm Williamson’s This Christmas Night, Geoffrey Bush’s ‘Twas in the year that King Uzziah died, Elisabeth Lutyens’s Nativity, Edmund Rubbra’s Let us securely enter and two works by Kenneth Leighton, O leave your sheep and Veni Redemptor – A Celebration.

Tracklist:
01. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – Joseph and the Angel (03:43)
02. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – I Look from Afar (06:19)
03. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – Sweet was the Song (02:07)
04. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Christmas Night (02:45)
05. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – Mary Laid her Child (02:21)
06. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Edward Turner – This Christmas Night (03:06)
07. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Edward Turner – I Sing of a Maiden (02:28)
08. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Suite on Plainchant Themes, Op. 12: I. Improvisation on Puer natus (05:16)
09. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Edward Turner – Tu creasti domine (04:02)
10. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – Balulalow (01:50)
11. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Claremont Carol (04:08)
12. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – There Is no Rose (02:39)
13. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Edward Turner – Hush! My Dear (03:30)
14. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – Fleecy Care Carol, Op. 256, No. 7 (02:58)
15. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – Of a Rose (02:48)
16. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Twas in the Year that King Uzziah Died (arr. G. Bush) (03:05)
17. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Nativity (05:55)
18. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – Entrez-y tous en surete, Op. 93: Let Us Securely Enter (02:18)
19. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Edward Turner – O Leave Your Sheep (04:14)
20. The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Veni redemptor, Op. 93 (10:16)