The Vasari Singers’ annual carol concerts always provide a warming blend of traditional favourites and less well-known music from all periods and styles. Here, joyous and masterful 16th-century polyphony sits alongside eternally popular Victorian carols, and exquisitely crafted settings by Howells and Walford Davies join works as recent as Gabriel Jackson’s The Christ-child. Bob Chilcott magically superimposes traditional carols with entrancing new material, and no Vasari Christmas would be complete without some close harmony Swingle singing. The Vasari Singers have also recorded Gabriel Jackson’s Requiem (8.573049).
Chilcott, Bob
Traditional - Lyricist
On Christmas Night: I. This is the truth (I)
1 On Christmas Night: I. This is the truth (I) 03:24
Traditional
Bible - New Testament - Lyricist
Rathbone, Jonathan - Arranger
Gabriel's Message (arr. J. Rathbone for choir)
2 Gabriel's Message (arr. J. Rathbone) 01:45
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
Hodie Christus natus est
3 Hodie Christus natus est 03:46
Praetorius, Michael
Sandström, Jan - Arranger
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (arr. J. Sandstrom)
4 Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (arr. J. Sandstrom) 04:03
Howells, Herbert
Harvey, Frederick William - Lyricist
Sing Lullaby
5 Sing Lullaby 03:31
Villette, Pierre
Bouheret, Roland - Lyricist
Hymne a la Vierge, Op. 24
6 Hymne a la Vierge, Op. 24 03:58
Chilcott, Bob
Gruber, Franz Xaver - Lyricist
Ballet, William - Lyricist
On Christmas Night: VI. Sweet was the song
7 On Christmas Night: VI. Sweet was the song 04:15
Theodoricus Petri Nylandensis
Willcocks, David - Arranger
Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens - Lyricist
Of the Father's Heart Begotten (arr. D. Willcocks)
8 Of the Father's Heart Begotten (arr. D. Willcocks) 03:03
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Hodie Christus natus est a 10
9 Hodie Christus natus est a 10 04:17
Chilcott, Bob
Traditional - Lyricist
On Christmas Night: VII. Rejoice and be merry
10 On Christmas Night: VII. Rejoice and be merry 01:50
Davies, Henry Walford
Bible - New Testament - Lyricist
Brooks, Phillips - Lyricist
O little town of Bethlehem
11 O little town of Bethlehem 05:30
