Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
and works by Ireland, Bridge and Holst
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross
Ross relishes the lustiness of ‘Wolcum Yole!’ without allowing scrappiness, and ‘There is no rose’ has a wealth of alluringly contoured dynamic detail. Tanya Houghton’s harp playing is unfailingly...
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
and works by Ireland, Bridge and Holst
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross
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Ross relishes the lustiness of ‘Wolcum Yole!’ without allowing scrappiness, and ‘There is no rose’ has a wealth of alluringly contoured dynamic detail. Tanya Houghton’s harp playing is unfailingly...
About
It’s Christmas. Graham Ross invites you to explore the highly individual conception of traditional carols offered by Twentieth Century British composers and, notably, the most eminent among them, Benjamin Britten.
Arranged around his famous Ceremony of Carols is a selection of wonderful choral pieces with or without organ, each of which testifies in its own way to the meticulous care Britten brought to these musical gems, most of them deriving from English folk tradition.
Contents and tracklist
- Ashley Chow
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Eleanor Carter
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Ashley Chow
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Eleanor Carter
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Eleanor Carter
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Tanya Houghton
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Tanya Houghton
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2020
Ross relishes the lustiness of ‘Wolcum Yole!’ without allowing scrappiness, and ‘There is no rose’ has a wealth of alluringly contoured dynamic detail. Tanya Houghton’s harp playing is unfailingly sensitive...Warm blend, fresh attack and a sense of keen vitality mark all the singing, and the sound is excellent.
November 2020
Shattering stereotypes of polite Oxbridge singing, there’s an exciting, no-holdsbarred conviction to the singing here. Whether it is shown to best advantage in the carefully polished precision of Britten’s Christmas sequence is another matter.
