jazzy_dave (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jazzy_dave) wrote2014-12-16 11:56 am
jazzy_dave) wrote2014-12-16 11:56 am
Entry tags:
Fantasia on Xmas Carols
Here is another piece of Xmas music based on old folk songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams called Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a 1912 work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. First performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral, the work is a single movement of roughly twelve minutes which consists of the English folk carols "The truth sent from above", "Come all you worthy gentlemen" and "On Christmas night all Christians sing" (i.e. the Sussex Carol), all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp a few years earlier.
Choir of Guildford Cathedral
Barry Rose, Master of the Choristers/Conductor
John Barrow, Baritone
Pro Arte Orchestra
An EMI Recording (1966)
Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a 1912 work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. First performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral, the work is a single movement of roughly twelve minutes which consists of the English folk carols "The truth sent from above", "Come all you worthy gentlemen" and "On Christmas night all Christians sing" (i.e. the Sussex Carol), all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp a few years earlier.
Choir of Guildford Cathedral
Barry Rose, Master of the Choristers/Conductor
John Barrow, Baritone
Pro Arte Orchestra
An EMI Recording (1966)