Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers
CD+DVD
Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor) & Meredith Hall (soprano)
Apollo's Fire
This type of fusion is increasingly popular, and Apollo's Fire do it enthusiastically, if perhaps without the final degree of finessed musicality that other ensembles bring to this type of project
Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers
CD+DVD
Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor) & Meredith Hall (soprano)
Apollo's Fire
Purchase product
This type of fusion is increasingly popular, and Apollo's Fire do it enthusiastically, if perhaps without the final degree of finessed musicality that other ensembles bring to this type of project
About
Sacrum Mysterium, Apollo's Fire's popular Celtic Christmas programme, arrives on CD together with a bonus DVD.
Long before Christianity took hold in Scotland and Ireland, the ancient Celts celebrated the Winter Solstice and the coming of light and hope. Jeannette Sorrell's celebration of Celtic artistic traditions interweaves selections from medieval Vespers with ancient pagan carols and popular tunes from 17th-century Welsh and Scottish manuscripts. Joyous fiddle tunes and Irish dances burst forth against the vivid backdrop of the unfolding Christ story. The colourful sounds of antiphonal bagpipes, archlute, harp, percussion, fiddles and recorders are blended in musical arrangements by Sylvain Bergeron and Sorrell. The Montreal-based early-music ensemble La Nef joins Apollo's Fire for this collaboration featuring the radiant Canadian soprano Meredith Hall. The CD is complemented with a bonus DVD featuring several songs from the album.
Contents and tracklist
- Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron
- Jeannette Sorrell
- Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron
- Jeannette Sorrell
- Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron
- Jeannette Sorrell
- Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron
- Jeannette Sorrell
- Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron, Amanda Powell, Jesse Blumberg, Ashley Lingenhoel, Élise Guay
- Jeannette Sorrell
- Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron, Olivier Brault, Julie Andrijeski, Kathie Stewart, Tina Bergmann
- Jeannette Sorrell
- Apollo's Fire, Meredith Hall, Ensemble La Nef, Sylvain Bergeron
- Jeannette Sorrell
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Awards and reviews
Christmas 2012
This type of fusion is increasingly popular, and Apollo's Fire do it enthusiastically, if perhaps without the final degree of finessed musicality that other ensembles bring to this type of project
May 2014
Dennis and Radley could have brought more savour to the acerbically witty Italian text...But their singing is mellifluous, nimble and gracefully shaped, with Dennis nicely catching Amaryllis's mix of playful caprice and dismissive spirit.
November 2012
This is a very well thought-out and produced recording which is original in concept and has a variety of moods.
Early Music Today
This is an intriguing blend of Celtic medieval and folk music for Christmas and the winter solstice, sung and played with gusto in this US-Canadian collaboration...the instrumental contributions throughout this disc are highly colourful.
