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Goodall - Winter Lullabies | Gift of Music CCLCDG1155

Goodall - Winter Lullabies

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Label: Gift of Music

Cat No: CCLCDG1155

Barcode: 0658592115529

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 27th October 2008

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Contents

Artists

Catrin Finch (harp)
Boys of Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford

Artists

Catrin Finch (harp)
Boys of Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford

About

An exciting major new commission from the pen of composer and TV star Howard Goodall, framed by famous, gentle, approachable music for winter and Christmas, sung by the heavenly boys' voices of Christ Church Cathedral Choir.

Winter Lullabies, for solo harp and boys' voices, comprises six loosely-interwoven movements, and despite Thomas Campion's jovial toast to the delights of winter with which it begins, the texts mainly centre on the hardship and the challenges of winter, particularly for mothers and their infants. The core of the work is a specially-written text in English and Gaelic, 'Crossing the border', by Irish poet Theo Dorgan.

Whilst the central theme of the cycle associates secular issues of homelessness, displacement and flight with the Christian nativity story, there is also a general celebration of motherhood and the different moods that might be embraced by a lullaby. With this in mind, the composer has even revisited Josef Mohr's familiar text 'Stille Nacht', attaching to it a more dance-like musical texture than the well-worn Franz Gruber original. Two anonymous lullabies, one joyful the other sorrowful, from very different continents and centuries, are juxtaposed in the second half of the cycle, and the whole piece concludes with 'Lullaby of Winter', to Goodall's own text, knitting together lyrical and musical ideas from the previous songs.

Winter Lullabies was commissioned by Christ Church Cathedral Choir and receives its world premiere with Catrin Finch on this CD. It was conceived with the richly robust, rhythmically energetic voices of Stephen Darlington's boy choristers very much in mind.

Track Listing:
1 Panis angelicus
: César Franck (1822-1890)
2 La salutation angelique - Ave Maria
: Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
3 The Lord is my shepherd
: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
4 Ave Maria Op.52 No.6
: Franz Schubert
5 En prière
: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
6 Cantique de Jean Racine
: Gabriel Fauré

Winter Lullabies
: Howard Goodall
7 Now when winter nights enlarge
8 Stille Nacht
9 Crossing the border
10 Duérmete mi niño
11 Sorrowful lullaby
12 Lullaby of winter

13 The harp resounds with wild refrain
: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) from Four Songs Op.17 No.1
14 Ombrai Mai Fu ('Handel's Largo')
: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
15 Ave verum
: Gabriel Fauré
16 Cantique de Noël
: Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)

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