Holiday Delights #2451

Hour 1

STUART NICHOLSON:  Ding, don merrily on high –Tewkesbury Schola /Simon Bell; Carleton Etherington (1997 Jones/Tewkesbury Abbey, England) Regent 577 

HERBERT SUMSION:  3 Christmas Preludes (Coventry Carol; The holly and the ivy; Adeste fidelis) –June Nixon (1891 T. C. Lewis-1990 Harrison/St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia) St. Paul’s Cathedral 0499                                                      

ROXANNA PANUFNIK:  Angels Sing (4 Polish Carols) –London Oratory School Schola/Lee Ward; Kate Smith, harp; David Terry (2013 Harrison/Hampton Parish Church, London, England) Regent 293

ROBIN MILFORD:  Pastorale Dance, On Christmas night –Malcolm Cass (1911 Austin/Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME) Kotzschmar 1960

PIERRE COCHEREAU:  Variations on a Noël (reconstructed by François Lombard) –Stephen Tharp (1991 Ruffatti/Spivey Hall, Morrow, GA) PD Archive (r. 12/7/02)

Filler – SUMSION:  Adeste fidelis (see above)

Hour 2

PAUL MANZ:  Gabriel’s Message (The Angel Gabriel from heaven came)  –Jack Mitchener (2001 Fisk/Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH) Raven 936

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (arr. Vickery):  Hark, the herald angels sing –Robert Vickery (Welte-Möller/St. Mark’s Cathedral, Minneapolis, MN) Quintessence 2069

LEO SOWERBY: 2 Christmas Anthems (Cradle Hymn & Can you count the stars?) –Con Vivium Ensemble/Patricia Snyder; Ronald Stalford (Aeolian-Skinner/All Saints Episcopal Church, Worcester, MA) Albany 187

ALEXANDRE GUILMANT:  Noël brabançon (alla Haydn), Op. 60, Book 3, no. 5 –Kurt Luedders (Mustel harmonium) Hortus 044

MICHEL CORRETTE:  2 Noëls (Un jour Dieu se resolute; Tous les Bourgeois de Chastres) –Karen Beaumont (1966 Noehren/St. John’s Cathedral, Milwaukee, WI) Beaumont 2950

HELMUT WALCHA:  How brightly shines the morning star.  FLOR PEETERS:  The star proclaims the King is here –John Schwandt (1966 Schlicker/Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN) PD Archive (r. 10/24/19)

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR:  Variations on Puer natus est (iv.), fr Symphonie gothique (No. 9), Op. 70 –Edward Berryman (1965 Aeolian-Skinner/Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN) PD Archive (r. 1/16/72)

PAUL de MALEINGREAU:  Vigile de la Fete, fr Symphonie de noël, Op. 19 –Peter Van de Velde (1891 Schyven/Our Lady Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium) Aeolus 10621

Filler – MENDELSSOHN (see above)

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