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Festive music for the holiday season performed by an outstanding mixed chorus with pipe organ, harp, flute and bellringers! Recorded in the glorious cathedral acoustics of Saint Ignatius Church, San Francisco. "...Magical...the sound is impressively transparent." --Fanfare
Festive music for the holiday season performed by an outstanding mixed chorus with pipe organ, harp, flute and bellringers! Recorded in the glorious cathedral acoustics of Saint Ignatius Church, San Francisco. "...Magical...the sound is impressively transparent." --Fanfare Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Silent Night by Franz Xaver Gruber
Performer:
Marcella DeCray (Harp)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: Classical
Written: 1818; Austria
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 20 Secs.
Language: English
Notes: Arranged: Malcolm Sargent
Harp accompaniment composed by Marcella De Cray.
2.
Nativity Carol by John Rutter
Performer:
Matthew Walsh (Organ)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1963; England
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: English
3.
Come, dear children by Alfred S. Burt
Conductor:
William Ballard
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ringmasters
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1952; USA
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 1 Minutes 35 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Hawley Ades
4.
Cantiones sacrae, Op. 4: Cantate Domino, SWV 81 by Heinrich Schütz
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: Baroque
Written: 1625; Germany
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 50 Secs.
Language: Latin
5.
Missa "O magnum mysterium": Gloria by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1592; Spain
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
Language: Latin
6.
Gaudete omnes by Hieronymus Praetorius
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: Renaissance
Written: 1599; Germany
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 53 Secs.
Language: Latin
7.
Caroling, caroling by Alfred S. Burt
Conductor:
William Ballard
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ringmasters
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; USA
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 1 Minutes 22 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Hawley Ades
8.
Nativity by Richard Dirksen
Performer:
Katherine Trieste (Flute)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: English
9.
Christmas perspectives: Green growth from the holly by Roger Nixon
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1980; San Francisco, CA, U
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: English
10.
Christmas Carol by Kirk Mechem
Performer:
Marcella DeCray (Harp)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: English
11.
Sir Christčmas by William Mathias
Performer:
Matthew Walsh (Organ)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: Wales, UK
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 1 Minutes 20 Secs.
Language: English
12.
A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: Interlude by Benjamin Britten
Performer:
Marcella DeCray (Harp)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1942; England
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 30 Secs.
13.
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10 "Christmas Story": Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen by Hugo Distler
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1933; Germany
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: English
14.
Motets (4) pour le temps de Noël: no 1, O magnum mysterium by Francis Poulenc
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1951-1952; France
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: Latin
15.
Virga Jesse floruit in E minor, WAB 52 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: Romantic
Written: 1885; Vienna, Austria
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 20 Secs.
Language: Latin
16.
We'll dress this house by Alfred S. Burt
Conductor:
William Ballard
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ringmasters
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1954; USA
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 1 Minutes 30 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Hawley Ades
17.
What child is this? by Traditional
Performer:
Matthew Walsh (Organ),
James Meyer (Bass)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 55 Secs.
Language: English
Notes: Arranged: David Willcocks
18.
Noël nouvelet by Traditional
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Written: France
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 10 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Kenneth Malucelli
This selection juxtaposes the French carol "Noël Nouvelet" with "The First Noel."
19.
Adeste fideles "O come, all ye faithful" by John Francis Wade
Performer:
Matthew Walsh (Organ)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: Classical
Written: by 1782; England
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 2 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: English
Notes: Arranged: David Willcocks
20.
Deck the Halls by Traditional
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Written: Wales, UK
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 1 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: English
Notes: Arranged: Kenneth Malucelli
21.
We three kings by John Henry Hopkins Jr.
Performer:
Katherine Trieste (Flute),
Marcella DeCray (Harp)
Conductor:
Ralph Hooper
Orchestra/Ensemble:
San Francisco Choral Artists
Period: 20th Century
Written: England
Venue: St Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
Length: 3 Minutes 39 Secs.
Language: English
Notes: Arranged: Stephen Paulus
Sound Samples
Silent Night (Stille Nacht) (arr. M. Sargent)
We Three Kings of Orient Are (arr. S. Paulus)
Come, Dear Children (arr. H. Ades)
Cantiones sacrae, Op. 4: Cantate Domino canticum novum, SWV 81
Missa O magnum mysterium: Gloria
Caroling, Caroling (arr. H. Ades)
A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 7. Interlude
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo! How a Rose, E'er Blooming)
4 Motets pour le temps de Noel, FP 152: No. 1. O magnum mysterium
Virga jesse floruit, WAB 52
We'll Dress the House (arr. H. Ades)
What Child Is This? (arr. D. Willcocks)
Noel Nouvelet (arr. K. Malucelli)
O Come All Ye Faithful (arr. D. Willcocks)
Deck the Hall (arr. K. Malucelli)
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