Performer: Somerville College Choir, Oxford, Luca Morgante
Conductor: Will Dawes
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Resonus Classics
Catalogue: RES10310
Release: 2022
Size: 1.05 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. McDowall: O Oriens
02. Betinis: Behind the Clouds
03. Semple: Drop Down, Ye Heavens
04. Decker: On This Day, Earth Shall Ring: II. Veni, veni Emmanuel
05. Frances-Hoad: There is no Rose
06. Briggs: A Tender Shoot
07. Cattley: Ivy, Chief of Trees
08. Bingham: The dawn of redeeming grace
09. Marsh: O magnum mysterium
10. Wallen: Peace on earth
11. Perinpanayagam: In Bethlehem Above
12. Rajasekar: Star of Rohini
13. Quartel: This Endris Night
14. Demessieux: Adeste Fidelis (12 Chorale Preludes)
15. Jones: Noel: Verbum caro factum est
16. Weir: My Guardian Angel
17. Wheeler: Ding Dong Diggety! (Arr. for choir by Janet Wheeler)
18. Nixon: The Holly and the Ivy (Arr. for choir and organ by June Nixon)
19. Reece-Trapp: Alleluia! A New Work is Come On Hand
20. McDowall: Gaude et laetare
Oxford’s Somerville College Choir under its director Will Dawes presents this compelling new programme of seasonal choral works solely by female composers from across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and including no fewer than eleven world premieres. This wide-ranging selection of repertoire reflects Somerville’s unique role as the only non-denominational college chapel at Oxford, as well as remaining true to its founding principle of enabling women. Together these works tell a different story of the nativity but also of the times we live in, when diversity and equality capture the spirit not only of Christ, but Christmas itself.