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Hodie - An English Christmas Collection

5/31/2005, 25 Tracks, 59:20

Featuring

  • Harry Christophers
  • Nicola Jenkin
  • Patricia Forbes
  • Christopher Royall
  • Neil MacKenzie
  • Simon Birchall
  • Libby Crabtree
  • Sally Dunkley
  • Sioned Williams
  • Robin Jeffrey
  • Ruth Dean
  • Margaret Phillips
  • William Lockhart
  • The Sixteen
  • Sir William Walton
  • Kenneth Leighton
  • Peter Racine Fricker
  • Edmund Rubbra
  • Benjamin Britten
  • John Tavener
  • Herbert Howells
  • Peter Hayward
  • Peter Warlock
  • John Gardner

Did you know?

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Compositional Technique

Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" was his first work written for boys' voices and the first to incorporate plainsong, using the antiphon 'Hodie' from the Vespers of the Nativity.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The recording sessions for this album took place at St Michael's Church Highgate in January 1990 and September 1992.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was produced by Peter Hayward and Mark Brown, with Mike Hatch as the engineer.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

William Walton, known for his 1st Symphony and 'Belshazzar's Feast', used a 'wrong note' technique in his carol setting, blending modal harmony with jazz-like ambiguities.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Benjamin Britten composed "A Ceremony of Carols" on his voyage back to England from America in 1942, after finding the words of medieval carols in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

John Tavener, composer of "The Lamb," became immersed in the culture of the Orthodox church around 1982, which subsequently informed all his music.

Source: Booklet

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