Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Dove, Emma Johnson
Performer: Gloucester Cathedral Choir, Adrian Partington, Emma Johnson, John Lenehan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Nimbus
Catalogue: NI6431
Release: 2022
Size: 224 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Johnson: Songs of Celebration
01. I. Sing of a Maiden
02. II. He is Born the Divine Infant King
03. III. Precious Gift
04. IV. There is No Rose
Dove: The Pied Piper
05. I. Opening
06. II. Into the Street the Piper Stepped
07. III. Once More He Stepped into the Street
Johnson, Leontovych: Christmas Suite
08. I. Carol of Bells (arr. For Choir and Clarinet by Emma Johnson)
trad.: Christmas Suite
09. II. Coventry Carol (arr. For Choir and Clarinet by Emma Johnson)
Gruber: Christmas Suite
10. III. Silent Night (arr. For Choir and Clarinet by Emma Johnson)
11. Johnson: Variations on ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’
12. Bach: Jesu, bleibet meine Freude (from Cantata BWV147 ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’)
Nimbus Alliance is excited to release a stunning new project with featuring Emma Johnson, Britain’s most renowned clarinettist, with great international acclaim. This project features Emma’s performances in two very different ways, first with a collection of Songs of Celebration which contains a variety of fantastic pieces leading up to the Christmas period in collaboration with conductor Adrian Partington and the Choir of Gloucester Cathedral. The second part of this release is ‘The Pied Piper’, which creates a verbal and musical recreation of the original Pied Piper story, with Emma both playing and reciting the story in conjunction with the Choir of Gloucester Cathedral and John Lenehan accompanying on the piano. This telling of the Pied Pipers story is dripping with horror and tension recreating the dark atmosphere of the original story.