Wishes and Candles - American Music for Christmas

Gameson, Paul, The Ebor Singers

RES 10309

The Ebor Singers, with director Paul Gameson, returns to the label with an album of American Christmas music.

The contemporary American Christmas choral tradition is a remarkable confluence of stylistic confluences, sacred and secular, which reflect the country’s cultural vibrancy more so than other times of year.

Featuring works from composers including Morten, Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Stephen Paulus, Susan LaBarr, Abbie Betinis, Timothy C. Takach, Jake Runestad, Matthew Culloton, René Clausen, Alfred Burt, Dan Forrest and Melinda Dunphy, the ensemble is joined by harpist Rachel Dent and oboist Jane Wright.

Works:

• Betinis: Carol of the Stranger
• Burt, A: The Star Carol
• Clausen, R: O magnum mysterium
• Culloton: Balulalow (O my dear heart)
• Culloton: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Culloton: In dulci jubilo
• Culloton: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
• Custer, G: Balulalow
• Dunphy: O Oriens
• Forrest, D: The Work of Christmas
• Forrest, D: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
• LaBarr: The Angel Gabriel
• Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium
• Paulus: In the Moon of Wintertime
• Paulus: Silent Night
• Paulus: The Holly and the Ivy
• Paulus: Wishes and Candles
• Runestad: Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep
• Takach: Joseph
• Whitacre: Lux aurumque

CD x 1

Resonus Classics

6.12.2022

5060262793411