The Dawn of Grace - Music for Christmas

Dawes, Will, Somerville College Choir, Oxford

RES 10310

Oxford’s Somerville College Choir under its director Will Dawes presents this compelling new programme of seasonal choral works solely by female composers from across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and including no fewer than eleven world premieres.

This wide-ranging selection of repertoire reflects Somerville’s unique role as the only non-denominational college chapel at Oxford, as well as remaining true its founding principle of enabling women.

Together these works tell a different story of the nativity but also of the times we live in, when diversity and equality capture the spirit not only of Christ, but Christmas itself.

Works:

• Betinis: Behind the Clouds
• Bingham, J: The dawn of redeeming grace
• Briggs, Kerensa: A Tender Shoot
• Cattley: Ivy, Chief of Trees
• Decker, P: On This Day, Earth Shall Ring: II. Veni, veni Emmanuel
• Demessieux: Adeste Fidelis (12 Chorale Preludes)
• Frances-Hoad: There is no Rose
• Jones, Tamsin: Noel: Verbum caro factum est
• Marsh, Joanna: O magnum mysterium
• McDowall, C: Gaude et laetare
• McDowall, C: O Oriens
• Perinpanayagam: In Bethlehem Above
• Quartel: This Endris Night
• Rajasekar: Star of Rohini
• Reece-Trapp: Alleluia! A New Work is Come On Hand
• Semple: Drop Down, Ye Heavens
• Wallen: Peace on earth
• Weir: My Guardian Angel

CD

Resonus Classics

6.12.2022

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