CD REVIEW
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DULCI JUBILO - London Brass
Warner Classics
9029577021 (57.42)
If you are looking
for a purely orchestral Christmas
CD here is another new lower
price re-issue.
Brass instruments
are somehow synonymous with
Christmas (think Salvation Army)
– it is said that trumpets
have long been the epitome of
Divine power – and this is a
ten piece ensemble of top-flight
musicians from a number of London
orchestras.
The album
comprises 18 tracks featuring
both baroque hits and a journey
through the Christmastide music
of various European countries.
These include the German
traditional album title, Ding,
Dong Merrily on high (16th
century French), Veni, veni,
Emmanuel (15th cent.
French), Quem pastores
laudavere - Preludium and Fugue
(14th cent. German), John
Rutter’s The
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol, Infant
holy, Infant lowly (Polish
trad.), Coventry Carol
and John Stanley’s
Trumpet Tune (both 16th
cent. English), Gabriel’s
Message (Basque trad.), It
came upon the midnight clear
(19th cent.), The first
Nowell (English trad.), and
works by Handel and Vivaldi.
Roger Harvey
directs 16 tracks, arranges 13,
and plays trombone on two.
© 2017
Peter Burt.
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