Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: ALBCD050
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5060158190508
- Street Date: 10/22/21
- PreBook Date: 09/17/21
- Label: Albion Records »
- Genre: Holiday
- Run Time: 40 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2021
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: US,CA
Product Assets
Chapel Choir Of The Royal Hospital & Joshua Ryan - An Oxford Christmas
Arrangements from the Oxford Book of Carols by Vaughan Williams and two later carols published by OUP - 22 tracks, 10 first recordings
- List Price: $15.99
- Your Price: $15.99
- In Stock: 29
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This recording focuses on arrangements made by Vaughan Williams for The Oxford Book of Carols (1928), coupled with two later carols published by OUP. Many of the tunes are far from well-known and deserve a new audience. We think 10 of the 22 tracks are first recordings, but reserve the right to have overlooked one or two amidst the vast but very mixed heritage of recorded carols. The preface to The Oxford Book of Carols tells us that: 'Variety in the method of singing is even more important than with hymns, and the verses should never be sung straight through all in the same way.' In this spirit the choir's director, William Vann, has prepared the carols for recording with a mixture of accompanied, unaccompanied and solo verses. Few of these carols are likely to have been undertaken by a congregation; this recording by a choir of distinguished professional singers presents the carols at their best, supported by the Henry Willis organ of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, in half of the carols.
Press Quotes
'So an extra mince pie for the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, whose 'An Oxford Christmas' is a characteristically clear-headed salute to The Oxford Book of Carols via RVW's contributions to it'
—Andrew Mellor, Gramophone