Wolcum Yule - Anonymous 4

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ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10
SOUND QUALITY: 10
(CLASSICSTODAY.com)

'...a sumptuous holiday feast...ethereal and unmatchable
sound...'
(Billboard)

'...The 4 sing everything in their trademark radiant and pure style. The real find in this program is Peter Maxwell Davies's 'Calendar of Kings', a 2002 setting of a mystical 1996 poem by George Mackay Brown. It, more than anything else here, displays the level of musicianship of the 4, who handle its intricacies with surety. Admirers of 20th Century choral music will also enjoy the all too brief 'Balulalow' of Richard Rodney Bennett. An attractive way to ring in the Yule season... '
(American Record Guide)

Also available on Super Audio CD: HMU 807325

Anonymous 4; Andrew Lawrence-King, harpa.


Trad

1. Awake, and join the cheerful choir


2. Good people all


3. The seven rejoices of Mary





4. The Lamb (John Tavener)





5. A Scots Lilt (anon)


6. Balulalow (Trad)


7. Balulalow (Richard Rodney Bennett)





Trad

8. The holly and the ivy


9. The Reel of Tullochgorum


10. I saw three ships





11. A Calendar of Kings (Peter Maxwell Davies)





Trad


12. Air: Lá fuar geimhreadh


13. An teicheadh go heigipt





14. A god, and yet a man? (Geoffrey Burgon)


15. Grene growith the holy (Henry VIII)





Trad


16. Wel, dyma'r borau gorau


17. The Cherry Tree Carol


18. Can wassel Wassail Song





19. A New Year Carol (Benjamin Britten)