A Ceremony of Carols

Album by Benjamin Britten & New London Children’s Choir & Ronald Corp

A Ceremony of Carols is a choral composition by English composer Benjamin Britten, composed in 1942. Scored primarily for treble voices and harp, it sets medieval English texts in a sequence of short movements that blend modal melodies, contrapuntal textures and 20th-century harmonic language, and occupies a notable place in Britten's choral output for its fusion of early-music influences with modern techniques.

About

  1. 1.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 1. Begone, dull care!
    1:03
  2. 2.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 2. A tragic story
    1:53
  3. 3.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 3. Cuckoo!
    1:42
  4. 4.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 4. "Ee-oh!"
    2:27
  5. 5.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 5. A New Year Carol
    2:14
  6. 6.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 6. I mun be married on Sunday
    1:17
  7. 7.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 7. There was a man of Newington
    0:35
  8. 8.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 8. Fishing song
    2:21
  9. 9.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 9. The useful plough
    2:30
  10. 10.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 10. Jazz-Man
    0:52
  11. 11.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 11. There was a monkey
    1:18
  12. 12.
    Friday Afternoons, op. 7: No. 12. Old Abram Brown
    4:23
  13. 13.
    Sweet Was the Song
    2:47
  14. 14.
    King Herod and the Cock
    1:24
  15. 15.
    The Oxen
    2:54
  16. 16.
    Fancie
    1:05
  17. 17.
    The Birds
    1:37
  18. 18.
    Three Two-Part Songs: No. 1. The Ride-by-nights
    0:58
  19. 19.
    Three Two-Part Songs: No. 2. The Rainbow
    2:54
  20. 20.
    Three Two-Part Songs: No. 3. The Ship of Rio
    1:33
  21. 21.
    A Wealden Trio: Christmas song of the women
    2:33
  22. 22.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Procession
    1:18
  23. 23.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Wolcum Yole!
    1:29
  24. 24.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: There is no Rose
    2:28
  25. 25.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: That yonge child
    1:35
  26. 26.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Balulalow
    1:23
  27. 27.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: As dew in Aprille
    1:00
  28. 28.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: This little Babe
    1:28
  29. 29.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Interlude: andante pastorale
    3:24
  30. 30.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: In Freezing Winter Night
    3:41
  31. 31.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Spring Carol
    1:14
  32. 32.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Adam lay i-bounden
    1:13
  33. 33.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: Recession
    1:20

Reviews

Similar Releases