Cantique de Noël, for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night")
L'Enfance du Christ, oratorio for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 3 basses, chorus & orchestra ("trilogie sacrée") H. 130 (Op. 25): L'adieu des bergers à la sainte famille
L'Enfance du Christ, oratorio for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 3 basses, chorus & orchestra ("trilogie sacrée") H. 130 (Op. 25): O mon âme
Il est né le divin enfant, harmonized carol for children's chorus & organ, harp, oboe, cello & contrabass or organ
Noël, for soprano, alto, female chorus & piano with organ ad lib., CG 184
Cantique de Noël, for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night")
L'Enfance du Christ, oratorio for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 3 basses, chorus & orchestra ("trilogie sacrée") H. 130 (Op. 25): L'adieu des bergers à la sainte famille
L'Enfance du Christ, oratorio for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 3 basses, chorus & orchestra ("trilogie sacrée") H. 130 (Op. 25): O mon âme
Il est né le divin enfant, harmonized carol for children's chorus & organ, harp, oboe, cello & contrabass or organ
Noël, for soprano, alto, female chorus & piano with organ ad lib., CG 184
Oratorio de Noël, for soloists, chorus, strings, harp & organ, Op. 12: Domine, ego credidi
Oratorio de Noël, for soloists, chorus, strings, harp & organ, Op. 12: Alleluia
Noëls Anciens (33) for organ: Nous voici dans la ville
Noëls Anciens (33) for organ: Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
Noëls Anciens (33) for organ: Quittez, pasteurs
Noëls Anciens (33) for organ: Noël nouvelet
Duos (6), for soprano, alto & piano, FWV 89: La vierge à la crèche
Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison, for voice & piano, CD 147 (L. 139)
C?ur de Jésus enfant, for soprano or tenor, chorus ad lib & organ
Chanson pour bercer la misère humaine: Le petit Jésus, en habits de niege, for voice & piano (from "Mélodies, Vol.5")
Noël au village, for male chorus & organ: C'est aujourd'hui
Noël au village, for male chorus & organ: Dans les cieux règne l'allégresse
Noël d'enfants (Les anges dans nos campagnes), for children's chorus & organ
O kommet ihr Gläubigen, carol (tune "Adeste fideles")
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, is not one of the more well-known English collegiate groups, but under director Geoffrey Webber it has carved out a niche, exploring unfamiliar repertories, often non-British. To take on the challenge of material central to the French late Romantic era, as the Choir and conductor Geoffrey Webber do here, may seem cheeky for an English group, but this makes it all the more impressive when they succeed. The program is beautifully constructed, with a mixture of organ and piano ...
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The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, is not one of the more well-known English collegiate groups, but under director Geoffrey Webber it has carved out a niche, exploring unfamiliar repertories, often non-British. To take on the challenge of material central to the French late Romantic era, as the Choir and conductor Geoffrey Webber do here, may seem cheeky for an English group, but this makes it all the more impressive when they succeed. The program is beautifully constructed, with a mixture of organ and piano accompaniments, and the album was recorded not at Gonville & Caius but at Exeter College, Oxford, because of the ringing French-style organ there. Several of these pieces have fed into the common stock of Christmas carols, giving the album the feel of discovering what made these tunes famous (including the final Noël d'enfants, otherwise known as Angels we have heard on high, arranged by Fauré, and the Portuguese Hymn (aka Adeste fideles, in a version by Gounod). Sample the 40 Noëls...
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