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AMERICAN COLONIAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC - Berkeley Chamber Singers, Alden Gilchrist

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FROM THE MUSICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY

AMERICAN COLONIAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC - Berkeley Chamber Singers, Alden Gilchrist

Berkeley Chamber Singers
Alden Gilchrist, director

"With characteristic clarity, impeccable taste, Alden Gilchrist's Berkeley Chamber Singers have produced a valuable portrait of America's early Christmas music. The Colonial's music was on a par with their other arts, comparably clean and direct in design, with idiom and form often strikingly independent. This disc gives us a delightful cross-section of a musical past too long neglected and a fine spun addition to our living Christmas tradition.'' --San Francisco Chronicle

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1 JOSIAH FLAGG: Hallelujah 00:26

2 OLD INDIAN HYMN (TUNE): My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord 01:09
3 JOHN ANTES: Christ the Lord, The Lord Most Glorious (Moravian Chorale) 01:31
4 ANONYMOUS: Song of the Angels 02:31

 

SIX ANTHEMS BY WILLIAM BILLINGS
5 Dedham (Rejoice ye shining worlds) 01:24
6 Hark! Hear You Not a Cheerful Voice (An Anthem for Christmas) 06:39
7 A Virgin unspotted 02:37
8 Boston and Shiloh (Methinks I See a Heavenly Host) 01:29
9 When Jesus Wept 01:37
10 What Wondrous Love Is This 03:12


11 OLIVER HOLDEN: Coronation (All Hail The Power) 02:31
12 JOHN PALMA: While The Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Christmas Hymn) 01:07
13 WILLIAM TANS'UR: An Hymn: On Christ's Nativity (Behold! The Grace Appears) 02:55
14 JOSEPH STEVENSON: Behold I Bring You Glad Tidings (An Anthem Out of the 2nd Chapter of Luke) 04:23
15 SAMUEL HOLYOKE: Arnheim (Now For a Tune of Lofty Praise) 01:15
16 ABRAHAM WOOD: Worcester (How Beauteous Are Their Feet) 01:43
17 CHARLES THEODORE PACHELBEL: Magnificat 05:55

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