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Bob Chilcott: The Rose in the Middle of Winter
Carols by Bob Chilcott
Commotio, Matthew Berry
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
Chilcott share Rutter's facility with melody...An ex-chorister himself, he also sets words very naturally....Chilcott's music is often more demanding than Rutter's, but that's no problem for...
Bob Chilcott: The Rose in the Middle of Winter
Carols by Bob Chilcott
Commotio, Matthew Berry
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
Chilcott share Rutter's facility with melody...An ex-chorister himself, he also sets words very naturally....Chilcott's music is often more demanding than Rutter's, but that's no problem for...
About
Bob Chilcott has been described by The Observer as ‘a contemporary hero of British Choral Music’, and his music is commissioned and sung by choirs throughout the world. His Christmas pieces, a number of which are heard here in première recordings, reveal his enthusiasm for recently written texts, to which he responds with acute verbal sensitivity.
Commotio is one of the UK’s foremost chamber choirs, hailing from Oxford, where they have performed choral music of the 20th and 21st centuries since 1999.
The central piece of this album is the previously unrecorded carol sequence On Christmas Night, which shows how his ambition is to infuse new blood alongside more traditional melodies and for each to be enriched by it.
Bob Chilcott is one of Britain’s most popular and most-performed composers of choral music, and has enriched the contemporary repertoire immensely.
Contents and tracklist
- Richard Pearce
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Tanya Houghton
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Laurie Ashworth, Josie Simmons, Tanya Houghton
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Laurie Ashworth, Alice James, Tim Elton, Tanya Houghton, Richard Pearce
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Alice James, Tanya Houghton
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Richard Pearce
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
- Richard Pearce
- Commotio
- Matthew Berry
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Christmas Carols from Bob Chilcott and others
9th Dec 2013
Commotio bring their ‘clean, unfussy sound and pristine intonation’ to the former King’s Singer’s carols - plus Music for Advent from The Choir of Clare College Cambridge.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week9th December 2013
Christmas Issue 2013
Chilcott share Rutter's facility with melody...An ex-chorister himself, he also sets words very naturally....Chilcott's music is often more demanding than Rutter's, but that's no problem for the excellent singers of Commotio, expertly conducted by Matthew Berry.
16th December 2013
The music on this disc, which is unfailingly attractive, certainly communicates with the listener directly and strongly. That communication with the listener is undoubtedly enhanced by the performances of Commotio...I think this delightful disc will enhance the musical side of Christmas for a lot of people.
9th December 2013
an ideal showcase for Commotio’s clean, unfussy sound and pristine intonation...it all feels unmistakeably ‘Christmassy’ from the first phrase: Chilcott has a happy knack for a memorable melody, and his settings of often familiar texts feel so natural that they’ll feel like old favourites after just one hearing.
8th December 2013
A welcome present of fresh, tuneful carols here from Bob Chilcott, a master steeped in the genre...Sure to be a hit with singers everywhere will be his Song of the Crib, an instantly likable, warm and sweet setting of words by Charles Bennett
