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| | A Christmas Festival | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Collegium | | Release Date : | | 2008-10-14 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
2. Gaudete Christus est natus (Piae Cantiones 1582)
3. The Shepherd's Carol, for chorus
4. Nos galan (New Year's Eve), carol (Welsh)
5. I Wonder As I Wander (American)
6. Ave Maria, for chorus & orchestra
7. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English)
8. Rejoice and Be Merry, for chorus & orchestra
9. El Noi de la Mare, carol (Catalan)
10. A Christmas Overture, for orchestra
11. Born on a New Day (after You Are A New Day)
12. Magical Kingdom, for children's chorus & orchestra
13. Mary's Little Boy Child, song
14. Esta noche nace un Niño (Spanish)
15. Norwegian Sleigh Ride, RT ix/3
16. De Virgin Mary had a baby boy
17. New Year, for chorus & orchestra
18. I Wish You Christmas, for children's chorus, mixed chorus & orchestra
19. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival)
20. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the film Meet Me in St. Louis)
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Love the CD! Where's the songbook?
Submitted on: 2009-11-02 |
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John Rutter's musical arrangements are so special! The fanfare to Adeste Fideles is amazing! I also loved the New Year song.
Now, where can I buy the songbook for a choir? |
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 A little more muscular
Submitted on: 2009-10-29 |
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John Rutter is an amazing composer. I've had the privilege of singing many of his arrangements, and I've also had the privilege of spending five years singing under the composer who has recently supplanted him as the bestselling choral arranger in the world, Mack Wilberg.
There is one flaw that I have noticed in the Cambridge Singers Christmas CDs. Rutter loves American Spirituals and jazz, and often includes arrangements of pieces like "Go Tell it On the Mountain." The problem is, 28 voices trained in the British/European cathedral style of singing just aren't muscular enough to really pull of the spirituals. With the addition of a second choir here, the spirituals work better.
This is not a bad entrant into the Rutter canon. |
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A Master Piece
Submitted on: 2009-01-14 |
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| One of the best CD's for John Rutter. I just can't enjoy the Christmas season without listening to the music of John Rutter. |
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 More "mainstream" Christmas fare
Submitted on: 2008-12-25 |
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| I have all of Rutter's Christmas CD's and have admired the Cambridge Singers for years. This Christmas compilation does not meet the same standard as Rutter's earlier holiday collections. Although his arrangements are varied and interesting, it appears that Rutter, sucked into the mainstream of secular-style Christmas music, has sold out in order to reach a wider audience. With full-vibrato-ed voices, the women soloists sound more like pop singers. The purity and clarity of tone he strove to achieve in the 80'sand 90's have been disregarded in favor of a more glitzy, thin sound. I hope that someday he will return to the more elegant and ethereal quality of choral music that he is so capable of producing. |
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I first heard it on NPR the day it was released
Submitted on: 2008-12-19 |
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| It was electrifying yet awe inspiring, as if it was composed for this history making year we have had with a fresh immediacy, the effect being as I imagine the angels had appearing to the shepherds unaware, and I had when I first heard of the dark horse candidate Obama's rise. I knew I had to have this John Rutter Christmas music on hearing an excerpt on NPR, and before the piece had finished, I rang our church's choir master and told him to turn it on. The phone rang as soon as it was over, and I simply answered it saying, "Wasn't that sublime!?!" Our children's choir in Charleston, SC at St. Philips studies choral music every 3 yrs at Canterbury Cathedral in England, and God willing, we will go this summer. Rutter's music is the best. |
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