INSPIRING VOICES: NEW COLLEGE CHOIR, OXFORD, EDWARD HIGGINBOTTOM (2 CDS + 2 DVDS) EuroArts

Deluxe two DVD + two CD edition.

The New College Choir, Oxford, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for it’s distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries. This DVD edition includes the moving documentary Inspiring Voices about Edward Higginbottom’s last weeks as the Choirmaster of the New College Choir as well as a live concert and two CDs. Includes bonus DVD: In Concert with New College Choir, Oxford with works by Georg Friedrich Handel ∙ Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville ∙ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Region code
0
Release December 11, 2020
Total running time 163 mins
Details running time 163 mins (DVDs) / 138 mins (CDs)
Subtitles English, German, French, Dutch
No. of discs 4
Recording 2013-2018
Bonus Bonus DVD: In Concert with New College Choir, Oxford
with works by Georg Friedrich Handel ∙ Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville ∙ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Bonus CD:
Nativitas – A Christmas Journey
In Excelsis – English Choral Music from Taverner to Tavener




Repertoire
BONUS DVD:

Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville: Gloria Patri (from Venite exultemus)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ch’io mi scordi di te; Per questa bella mano; Piano Concerto in B flat (Allegro) (K.450)

Georg Friedrich Händel: Coronation Anthems (Zadok the Priest, HWV 258); Coronation Anthems (The King Shall Rejoice, HWV 260); Coronation Anthems (My Heart is Inditing, HWV 261)


CD

1 Boris Ord: Adam Lay Ybounden (Text; Anon., Arr. John Rutter)
2 Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina: Alma Redemptoris
3 Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria
4 Herbert Howells: A Spotless Rose (Text; Fourteenth-Century Carol)
5 John Joubert: There Is No Rose (Text: Fifteenth-Century English)
6 Michael Head: The Little Road to Bethlehem (Text: M. Rose)
7 Henry John Gauntlett: Once in Royal David’s City (Text: C. Alexander; Descant & Last Verse Harmonisation David Willcocks); Franz Gruber (1787-1863)
8 Stille Nacht (Text: W. Mohr, Arr. Andrew Carter);
9 Herbert Howells (1892-1983): Sing Lullaby (Text: F. Harvey)
10 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795): Gloria Sei Dir Gesungen Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme, Part III
11 Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): O Magnum Mysterium Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël
12 In Dulci Jubilo (Fourteenth-Century German Carol, Arr. R.L. Pearsall)
13 Georg Christian Schemelli (C.1676-1762): Jesulein SÜß (Arr. Johann Sebastian Bach)
14 Christopher Tye (1505-1572): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night (Descant By Edward Higginbottom)
15 Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Quem Vidistis Pastores Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël; Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep (Besançon Carol, Arr. Martin Shawl)
16 Adeste Fideles (Eighteenth-Century, Attrib. J.F. Wade; Descant and Last Verse Harmonisation David Willcocks)
17 Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Videntes Stellam Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël; Rocking Carol (Czech Traditional Carol, Arr. Edward Higginbottom)
18 Herbert Howells (1892-1983): Here Is the Little Door (Text: F. Chesterton)
19 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (Text: C. Wesley Et. Al., Descant and Last Verse Harmonisation David Willcocks)
20 Giles Swayne (B.1946): Magnificat; Richard Pygott (Attrib.) (C.1485-1549): Quid Petis, O Fili
21 John Taverner: The Lamb (Text: William Blake)
22 Jonathan Harvey: Come, Holy Ghost (Text: Bishop John Cosin, Based on Veni Creator Spiritus)
23 John Taverner: Gloria Mass “The Western Wynde”
24 John Tavener (B.1944): A Hymn to the Mother of God
25 Nicholas Ludford (C.1490-1557): Ave Cujus Conception
26 William Cornysh (D.1593): Woefully Arrayed
27 Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012): I Love the Lord (Text: Psalm 116: 1-4,7-9)
28 John Sheppard: Libera Nos; John Tavener (B.1944): God Is with Us; Thomas Tallis
29 Audivi Vocem de Caelo; John Tavener: The Tyger (Text: William Blake)