The Mystery of Christmas

Locations
Call Number: CD Christmas ORA Mystery
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Christmas ORA Mystery	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Christmas ORA Mystery	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact disc.
Program notes in English and French and texts in English and Latin, with French and English translations (35 pages) inserted in container.
Title from container.
Sung texts with English and French translations, and program notes in English and French in container.
O magnum mysterium / William Byrd (2:43) -- Venite, gaudete! / Adrian Peacock (2:23) -- O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel / Roderick Williams (7:08) -- Drop down, ye heavens, from above / Judith Weir (1:40) -- Videte miraculum / Thomas Tallis (9:55) -- Coventry carol / anonymous (medieval) (2:42) -- Coventry carol / anonymous ; arr. Richard Allain (3:52) -- Nova, nova / anonymous (medieval) (1:57) -- Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex Eva / James Macmillan (5:39) -- Suzi's carol / John Rutter (5:00) -- As I lay upon a night / Jamie W. Hall (3:13) -- There is no rose / anonymous (medieval) (3:22) -- There is no rose / Ben Rowarth (4:41) -- Sweet was the song / Thomas Hyde (2:02) -- Now may we singen / anonymous (medieval) (4:25) -- Now may we singen / Cecilia McDowall (3:29) -- Mary's lullaby (Silent night) / Fredrik Sixten (4:01) -- Gaudete / Steven Sametz (2:15) -- O magnum mysterium / Morten Lauridsen (6:00).
ORA Singers ; Suzi Digby, conductor ; with Roderick Williams, baritone (3rd work) ; Joby Burgess, percussion (10th work).

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A beautiful cycle submitted by terpsichore17 on August 16, 2019, 12:17pm These singers have a beautifully clear, ethereal sound. Their carefully-chosen pieces, both old, new, and new settings of the old, meditate on and reflect the mystery and wonder of the incarnation.

What’s particularly enjoyable is how they’ve doubled-up pieces: one setting of Coventry Carol is followed by another, even ghostlier version; one setting of There Is No Rose is followed by a different setting. This may sound merely repetitive, but because the music is different, it simply allows for the listener to consider the text in greater depth and, perhaps, from a different angle, by virtue of hearing it twice.

Most delightfully, since my player looped the CD, Morten Lauridsen’s setting of O Magnum Mysterium seamlessly joins up to Byrd’s setting on the first track: a perfect circle.