Madrigalia Live at Christmas
Roger Wilhelm, music director
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What? Another Madrigalia Christmas recording? Our first holiday recording in 1996 featured music by American composers. The second, in 2000, focused on music for harp and voice. This year, in the process of deciding on a new CD, we discovered that over the past several years we have performed a lot of wonderful Christmas music that is rarely heard live or on recordings. So, we put together in a CD the best “live” recorded performances of our Christmas concerts - carol arrangements, motets, folk and popular tunes and even a P. D. Q. Bach piece thrown in!
The music of this recording features a variety of sonorities as well as Madrigalia’s signature a cappella style. Several pieces are arranged for piano four-hands as well as solo piano. There are also pieces that use harp and bell choir accompaniments. All selections on this CD were recorded live at St. Anne Church in Rochester, New York. Madrigalia hopes that it will be a festive holiday collection for families everywhere.
Content
| Tomorrow shall be my dancing day | Howard Helvey |
| Coventry Carol | Howard Helvey |
| The holly bears a berry | Howard Helvey |
| Sing lullaby | Howard Helvey |
| On Christmas night all Christians sing | Howard Helvey |
| Wassail Christmastide! | David Charlesworth |
| This Child, This King | Daniel Gawthorp |
| Good Ale | John Rutter |
| What Sweeter Music | John Rutter |
| At Christmas Be Merry | Libby Larson |
| Joy Shall Be Yours in the Morning | Z. Randall Stroope |
| The shepherds all are waking | Libby Larson |
| Good King Kong Looked Out | P.D.Q. Bach |
| Lullay Mine Liking | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| Christmas Wonderland | Roger Wilhelm |
| Nie piej, kurku, nie piej | Henryk Milolaj Gorecki |
| My Dancing Day | Crawford Thoburn |
| Noel Nouvelet | Cary Ratcliff |
| Adoration of the Wise Men | Crawford Thoburn |
| Deck the Hall | Mark Hayes |
| Lullay Lord Jesus | George Thalben-Ball |
| Jingle Bells | David Blackwell |
| Silent Night | Roger Wilhelm |
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