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Background: A Christmas record with a difference! This jolly disc revives the little-known tradition of ‘gallery music’, suppressed by the Oxford Movement in early Victorian times because it was too cheerful. The title track, for instance, is sung to the tune of ‘On Ilkley Moor baht ’at’. Some of the tunes, and almost all of the texts, will be familiar, and all fifteen works vitally capture the enthusiasm of an age newly emerging from a century which had seen Puritanical rejection of the pomp of Christmas, a time, indeed, when ‘While shepherds watched’ had been the only Christmas hymn tolerated by the Church of England.

CATALOGUE NR: CDH55325
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion Helios
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75
RELEASE DATE: 29-Sep-2008

COMPOSER: Michael Beesly  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: While Shepherds Watched
TRACKS: While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Michael Beesly of Blewbury Oxfordshire). Let an anthem of praise (Anon arr. Caleb Ashworth of Daventry). While shepherds watched their flocks by night (John Christopher Smith arr. John Arnold of Great Warley Essex). Pastorale (Pieter Hellendaal). Hark! how all the welkin rings (Anon arr. Thomas Butts). Hush! my dear lie still and slumber (Anon arr. Thomas Butts). As shepherds watched their fleecy care (Joseph Key of Nuneaton). Hark! the herald angels sing (Samuel Arnold). While shepherds watched (Thomas Clark of Canterbury). Hark! the herald angels sing (Handel arr. Edward Miller of Doncaster). There were shepherds abiding in the field (Thomas Jarman of Clipstone Northants). Rondo on 'God rest you merry gentlemen' (Samuel Wesley). Angels from the realms of glory (William Matthews of Nottingham). Hymning seraphs wake the morning (Handel arr. Thomas Taylor). While shepherds watched their flocks by night (John Foster of High Green Yorkshire).
CONDUCTOR: Peter Holman
ARTISTS: Psalmody   Parley of Instruments    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Christmas Music from English Parish Churches and Chapels 1740-1830

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