Cheerful agnostic that he was, Ralph Vaughan Williams still loved Christmas, and especially Christmas carols. One of the first things he wrote as a child was a carol and one of the last things he wrote as a very old man was a carol, and in between he wrote more Christmas music than any other first-rank twentieth century composer.This 2008 Chandos disc does not include the best known of his Christmas works, Hodie, a nearly hour-long setting of the Christmas story, but it does include three of his best Christmas pieces. One ...
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Cheerful agnostic that he was, Ralph Vaughan Williams still loved Christmas, and especially Christmas carols. One of the first things he wrote as a child was a carol and one of the last things he wrote as a very old man was a carol, and in between he wrote more Christmas music than any other first-rank twentieth century composer.This 2008 Chandos disc does not include the best known of his Christmas works, Hodie, a nearly hour-long setting of the Christmas story, but it does include three of his best Christmas pieces. One is a world premiere: the 1926 On Christmas Night, a masque adopted from Dickens' A Christmas Carol. One is a world premiere in this form: the 1912 Fantasia on Christmas Carols in an arrangement for strings and organ. The last is just rarely recorded: The First Nowell, A Nativity Play. All three take traditional English Christmas carols as their basis and elaborate their form from there.All three receive excellent performances from the forces under Richard Hickox's direction. Those...
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