Vaughan Williams - Hodie, Fantasia on Christmas Carols | Naxos 8570439

Vaughan Williams - Hodie, Fantasia on Christmas Carols

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570439

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 29th October 2007

Contents

Artists

Janice Watson (soprano)
Peter Hoare (tenor)
Stephen Gadd (baritone)
Guildford Choral Society
St Catherine’s School Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Hilary Davan Wetton

Works

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Hodie (This Day), A Christmas Cantata

Artists

Janice Watson (soprano)
Peter Hoare (tenor)
Stephen Gadd (baritone)
Guildford Choral Society
St Catherine’s School Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Hilary Davan Wetton

About

Vaughan Williams’ Christmas Cantata Hodie (This Day) is a brilliant mosaic of musical styles set to poetry from the most diverse sources. Texts by Milton, Hardy, and George Herbert reflecting various Christmas experiences are bound together by a narration of the Gospel Nativity story sung in unison by a boys’ choir.

With its gripping blend of mysticism, heavenly glory and human hope, Hodie flows with a vitality and inventiveness that belie a work written in Vaughan Williams’s old age.

The Fantasia on Christmas Carols, which incorporates a number of traditional English carols, is notable for the obligato cello part and for the varied treatment of the choir, which provide an atmospheric choral-orchestral texture.

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