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One Star
Carols for a new Millennium


The BBC Singers
directed by Stephen Cleobury


"astonishingly high standards of choral singing ... excellent performances and the organ contributions by Robert Quinney are all splendid ... Enthusiastically recommended ..."

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When an ensemble like the BBC Singers, renowned for its commitment to the music of our own time, sets out to record a Christmas CD you can be sure that the repertoire will include material rather different from the usual run of popular standards and arrangements!

One star at last includes eight new carols (six of them specially-commissioned by BBC Radio 3), several premiere recordings, and a selection of music - serious and light-hearted, contemplative and joyful - by some of the leading British, European and North American choral composers of the day.

 

 
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The BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury
Release date: 8th November 2005
Order code: SIGCD067
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1 Bo Holten (b. 1948) Nowell Sing We Now [3.56]
Steve Martland (b. 1959) Three Carols
2 From lands that see the sun arise [2.40]
3 Make we joy [2.36]
4 There is no Rose of such virtue [4.38]
5 Carl Rütti (b. 1949) I wonder as I wander [2.15]
6 Judith Weir (b. 1954) Illuminare, Jerusalem [2.28]
7 Judith Bingham (b. 1952) The Shepherd’s Gift [3.48]
8 Francis Grier (b. 1956) Corpus Christi Carol [3.44]
9 Thomas Adès (b. 1971) The Fayrfax Carol

 [4.31]
10 Conrad Susa (b. 1935) The Shepherds Sing [3.15]
11 Jean Belmont (b. 1939) Nativitas [2.33]
12 James MacMillan (b. 1959) Seinte Mari Moder Milde [7.12]
13 John Tavener (b. 1944) Today the Virgin [3.01]
14 Jerzy Kornowicz (b. 1959) Oczekiwanie (Waiting)

 [9.09]
15 Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936) Carol [3.42]
16 Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934) One star, at last [3.33]
17 John Harbison (b. 1938) O Magnum Mysterium [2.17]
18 Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968) Sleep, little Jesus, sleep [3.19]
19 Howard Goodall (b. 1958) Romance of the Angels [4.32]
20 John Harle (b. 1956) Mrs Beeton’s Christmas Plum Pudding

 [4.08]
     
  Total running time: [77.49]
   

 
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