Four Songs of the Nativity for Satb and 5 Brass
Re-arrangement of the work originally for SATB choir and 8 brass
First Performance: Kettering Camerata together with the Camerata Brass, 7.30pm, at Fuller Baptist Church, Gold Street, Kettering, 4 December 2010.
The mediaeval joy in faith finds its best expression in lyrics on the Nativity and on the role of the Virgin Mary. The ideas of unique birth and everlasting triumph over death combine to remove all darkness, so that Hell is no more than a hazard which Our Lady helps us circumvent. Winter and long nights are forgotten in Her magical dance-song, and the Middle Ages’ burning sense of Sin itself is lost in ecstatic rejoicing.
Movements
- 1:
- Holy Mary, Mother Mild
- 2:
- Of A Rose, A Lovely Rose
- 3:
- Jesu, Son Most Sweet and Dear
- 4:
- Let Us Gather Hand in Hand
Recordings