Vaughan Williams' Christmas Cantata Hodie is a brilliant mosaic of musical styles set to poetry from the most diverse sources. Texts by Milton, Hardy, and George Herbert reflecting various Christmas experiences are bound together by a narration.

Tracklist:

Fantasia On Christmas Carols
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: I. Prologue. Nowell! Nowell!
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: II. Narration. Now Is The Birth Of Jesus Christ
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: III. Song. It Was The Winter Wild
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: IV. Narration. And It Came To Pass In Those Days
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: V. Choral. The Blessed Son Of God
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: VI. Narration. And There Were In The Same Country
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: VII. Song. The Oxen
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: VIII. Narration. And The Shepherds Returned
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: IX. Pastoral. The Shepherds Sing
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: X. Narration. But Mary Kept All These Things
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: XI. Lullaby. Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sang
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: XII. Hymn. Bright Portals Of The Sky
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: XIII. Narration. Now When Jesus Was Born
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: XIV. The March Of The 3 Kings. From Kingdoms Of Wisdom
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: XV. Choral. No Sad Thought His Soul Affright
Hodie (This Day), Christmas Cantata: XVI. Epilogue. In The Beginning Was The Word

UPC: 747313043972
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 11.20.07
Format: CD

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