The Darkest Midnight: Songs of Winter and Christmas
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0189
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 2nd November 2018
Contents
Works
Dou way Robyn / Sancta MaterGaudete (arr. Suzzie Vango)
Nowell, tydynges trew
Fusion
When the Earth Stands Still
The River (arr. Jim Clements)
L'Enfant et les sortileges
A Nativity
Angelus ad virginem
Det lisle banet (Norwegian, arr. Tone Krohn)
Don oiche ud i mBeithil (Irish, arr. Suzzie Vango)
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (arr. M Praetorius/Sarah Tenant-Flowers)
In dulci jubilo (arr. Matthew Culloton)
Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (arr. Philip Lawson)
O Jesulein zart (arr. Winnie Bruckner)
Shchedryk (Hark how the bells) (Ukrainian, arr. Elizabeth Drury)
The darkest midnight in December (arr. Diamaid O Muirithe)
Balulalow
Artists
PapagenaWorks
Dou way Robyn / Sancta MaterGaudete (arr. Suzzie Vango)
Nowell, tydynges trew
Fusion
When the Earth Stands Still
The River (arr. Jim Clements)
L'Enfant et les sortileges
A Nativity
Angelus ad virginem
Det lisle banet (Norwegian, arr. Tone Krohn)
Don oiche ud i mBeithil (Irish, arr. Suzzie Vango)
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (arr. M Praetorius/Sarah Tenant-Flowers)
In dulci jubilo (arr. Matthew Culloton)
Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (arr. Philip Lawson)
O Jesulein zart (arr. Winnie Bruckner)
Shchedryk (Hark how the bells) (Ukrainian, arr. Elizabeth Drury)
The darkest midnight in December (arr. Diamaid O Muirithe)
Balulalow
Artists
PapagenaAbout
Described as “a stunning addition to the vocal music scene” and “la crème de la crème in the crowded a cappella space”, Papagena’s three sopranos (Elizabeth Drury, Abbi Temple, Suzzie Vango) and two altos (Suzie Purkis, Sarah Tenant-Flowers) look certain to add to their fast-growing reputation with this beautifully sung compendium.
Casting a dark glamour all of its own, the bleakness of winter has prompted some of the most bewitching, brittle and bright songs. Alongside traditional Christmas anthems can be found legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s The River in an achingly melancholic arrangement and American composer Don MacDonald, whose When the Earth Stands Still is movingly poignant and still, twilit and shining.
Celebratory songs marking the Christmas season – the exuberant In dulci Jubilo, burnished, glowing harmonies of Angelus ad virginem, sublimely serene Es ist ein Ros entsprungen and infectious Shchedryk/Hark How the Bells from Ukraine – are heard alongside lilting Irish songs from antiquity and the charming Scottish lullaby Balulalow. Songs from England, Germany, Norway and ‘Toi le coeur de la rose’ from Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges round off a recording that includes first performances of eight arrangements and is marked by sheer beauty of sound.
A recent visit to BBC Radio 3 saw presenter Sarah Walker remarking “the extraordinary voices of Papagena… went down a storm at our Maida Vale studios” while the arts review site The Prickle hailed the group as “a young, female Hilliard Ensemble”.
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