Bob Chilcott: The Rose in the Middle of Winter: Carols by Bob Chilcott

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... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: 8573159
Label: Naxos
Length: 77 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

9th December 2013

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Chilcott: Song of the Crib

Work length5:39

$1.00

$1.20

Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: Les anges dans nos campagnes

Work length2:44

$1.00

$1.20

Richard Pearce (organ)
Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: The Advent Candle

Work length2:54

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Tanya Houghton (harp)
Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: The Rose in the Middle of Winter

Work length2:45

$1.00

$1.20

Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: The Heart-in-Waiting

Work length3:40

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Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: The Shepherds Sing

Work length3:37

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Tanya Houghton (harp), Laurie Ashworth (soprano), Josie Simmons (soprano saxophone)
Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: Shepherd's Carol

Work length3:25

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Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: On Christmas Night

Work length22:50

$8.00

$9.60

Laurie Ashworth (soprano), Alice James (flute), Tanya Houghton (harp), Richard Pearce (organ), Tim Elton (oboe)
Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

This is the truth (I)

Track length2:56

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Adam lay ybounden

Track length1:45

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A spotless Rose

Track length3:48

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The Cherry Tree Carol

Track length1:56

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O little town

Track length3:30

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Sweet was the song

Track length3:49

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Rejoice and be merry

Track length1:53

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This is the truth (II)

Track length3:13

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Chilcott: What sweeter music

Work length4:10

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Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: Mid-Winter (version for chorus, flute and harp)

Work length3:47

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Tanya Houghton (harp), Alice James (flute)
Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: The Bethlehem Star

Work length2:26

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Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Gruber, F: Silent Night

Work length3:45

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$1.20

Richard Pearce (organ)
Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: The night he was born

Work length5:21

$1.00

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Richard Pearce (organ)
Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: Gifts for the Child of Winter

Work length3:39

$1.00

$1.20

Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

Chilcott: Before the ice (O magnum mysterium)

Work length7:02

$2.00

$2.40

Commotio
Matthew Berry
Recorded: 5-7 April 2013
Recording Venue: Keble College Chapel, Oxford, UK

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Recording of the Week, Christmas Carols from Bob Chilcott and others

9th December 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.

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.

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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

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Recording of the Week, Christmas Carols from Bob Chilcott and others