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John Rutter- Suzi's Carol (Advent Calendar). Commissioned and performed by ORA Singers & Suzi Digby. Recorded at St Augustine’s Church, Kilburn, London, 23-28 January 2017, 7-12 August 2017.

Soloist: Emma Walshe (soprano)

From the album 'Advent Calendar'- released 24th December, 2017 with harmonia mundi.

"In common with many composers, I have often found the text for a new carol in the rich store of early English poetry, so much of which was inspired by the Christmas story and written with musical setting in mind - though in many cases the music is lost. Suzi's Carol was composed to a 15th-century anonymous text, A babe is born all of a may, found in the Sloane manuscript in the British Library. In modern times this text was memorably set to music in exuberant style by William Mathias, but I felt there was scope for a more introspective setting: given the brief that there was to be an accompaniment for percussion, I found a counterpart to the mood of the text in the characterful and perhaps slightly enigmatic tone-colour of marimba, with crotales (small pitched metal plates sounding like tiny bells) at the point of climax in the music. I have dedicated my setting to Suzi and her wonderful choir ORA Singers."- John Rutter


Text:

A babe is born all of a may,
To bring salvation unto us.
To him we singen both night and day;
Veni Creator Spiritus

At Bethlehem, that blessed place,
The child of bliss, born he was;
Him to serve, God give us grace,
O lux beata Trinitas.

There came three kings out of the east,
To worship the King that is so free,
With gold and myrrh and frankincense,
A solis ortus cardine.

The angels came down with one cry,
A fair song then sungen he
In the worship of that child:
Gloria tibi Domine

A babe is born all of a may,
To bring salvation unto us.
To him we singen both night and day.
Veni Creator Spiritus. Nowell.


Full album listing:

1. John Rutter - Suzi's Carol
2. Adrian Peacock- Venite Gaudete!
3. Jim Clements- Gabriel's Message
4. Sally Beamish - In the stillness
5. Howard Skempton - Adam Lay Y Bounden
6. Thomas Hewitt Jones - Lullay, my Liking
7. James Burton - Balulalow
8. Trad. arr. Richard Allain - Coventry Carol
9. Morten Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium
10. Gareth Treseder - Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
11. Will Todd - My Lord Has Come
12. James Bassi - Quem pastores laudavere
13. Steven Sametz - Gaudete!
14. Judith Weir - My Guardian Angel
15. Owain Park - Shepherd’s Cradle Song
16. Bob Chilcott - The Shepherd’s Carol
17. Jonathan Rathbone - The Oxen
18. Cecilia McDowall - Now May We Singen
19. Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque
20. Arvo Pärt - Bogoróditse Djévo
21. Trad. arr. Tobias A. Frank - Les anges dans nos campagnes
22. Holst arr. Ola Gjeilo - In the bleak midwinter
23. Fredrik Sixten - Mary’s Lullaby (Silent Night)
24. Debbie Wiseman - The Christmas Tree

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