Dancing Day: Music for Christmas Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys

• Matthew Martin (1976 - ):
• 1Novo profusi gaudio03:37
• Patrick Hadley (1899-1973):
• 2I sing of a maiden02:55
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976): A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28:
• 3I. Procession01:32
• 4II. Wolcum Yole!01:24
• 5III. There is no Rose02:26
• 6IVa. That yongë child01:46
• 7IVb. Balulalow01:21
• 8V. As dew in Aprille01:02
• 9VI. This little Babe01:30
• 10VII. Interlude03:33
• 11VIII. In Freezing Winter Night03:50
• 12IX. Spring Carol01:15
• 13X. Adam lay i-bounden01:12
• 14XI. Recession01:37
• Benjamin Britten:
• 15A New Year Carol02:19
• Traditional Dutch arr. John Scott (1956 - ):
• 16King Jesus hath a garden03:21
• John Rutter (1945 - ): Dancing Day Part 1:
• 17Prelude03:36
• 18I. Angelus ad virginem01:55
• 19II. A virgin most pure05:05
• 20III. Personent hodie01:58
• Dancing Day Part 2:
• 21Interlude04:06
• 22IV. There is no rose01:54
• 23V. Coventry Carol03:54
• 24VI. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day03:04
• Traditional English arr. Philip Ledger (1937 - 2012):
• 25On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol)02:00
• William Mathias (1934 - 1992):
• 26Wassail Carol01:41
• Total Runtime01:03:53

Info for Dancing Day: Music for Christmas

Sent to press just days before his untimely death in August 2015, John Scott's last recording is Dancing Day, a programme of works for Christmas, made with his beloved Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys of Fifth Avenue, New York.

Recorded in the home of the choir in Manhattan, the recording is centred around two works for treble voices and harp performed annually by the boys of the choir under John's direction - Benjamin Britten's inimitable A Ceremony of Carols and John Rutter's companion piece Dancing Day.

Completing a compelling disc that features medieval texts and themes are further works for treble voices - Britten's A New Year Carol and Patrick Hadley's I sing of a maiden. The boys are joined by the men of the choir for works by Matthew Martin, Philip Ledger and William Mathias. Also included is John's own arrangement of the simple traditional Dutch carol King Jesus hath a garden, penned whilst organ scholar of St John's College, Cambridge

Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys
Fifth Avenue
New York Sara Cutler, harp
Benjamin Sheen, organ
Stephen Buzard, organ
John Scott, conductor

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