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Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort
Various composers

Bevan Family Consort

Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212090923
Catnr: SIGCD 909
Release date: 18 October 2024
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212090923
Catalogue number
SIGCD 909
Release date
18 October 2024
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About the album

Following their first successful album on Signum Records, the Bevan Family Consort present a collection of Christmas Carols and compositions for Advent. The collection includes familiar works such as Darke’s setting of ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, which is presented here in a new arrangement by Francis Bevan and was as works newly transcribed for this album such as Palestrina’s ‘Missa sine nominee a5’ and Weelkes ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’. ‘Lute-book lullaby’ also features, composed by original Bevan Family Choir founder David Bevan. ★★★★ THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2023 “[A] lovingly curated selection of works for voices… All received performances of exquisite subtlety and clarity” – The Times

Artist(s)

Bevan Family Consort

15 cousins carrying on the family tradition of choral singing.
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15 cousins carrying on the family tradition of choral singing.

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Graham Ross (conductor)

Graham Ross is Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, co-founder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble, and in demand as a regular guest conductor. Recent collaborations have included LPO, LMP, OAE, BBC Singers, BBCCO, Aurora Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 25 he made his BBC Proms and Glyndebourne debuts, and he has conducted and recorded many world premières including James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Palestrina, Giles Swayne, Vaughan Williams, Imogen Holst, Nico Muhly, Brett Dean, Lydia Kakabadse and Matthew Martin. As a composer commissions have included BBCCO, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth...
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Graham Ross is Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, co-founder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble, and in demand as a regular guest conductor. Recent collaborations have included LPO, LMP, OAE, BBC Singers, BBCCO, Aurora Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 25 he made his BBC Proms and Glyndebourne debuts, and he has conducted and recorded many world premières including James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Palestrina, Giles Swayne, Vaughan Williams, Imogen Holst, Nico Muhly, Brett Dean, Lydia Kakabadse and Matthew Martin. As a composer commissions have included BBCCO, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, Park Lane Group, and Wigmore Hall. He is founder and Artistic Director of Singers Abroad, running annual courses for singers of all ages, and a Trustee and Patron of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. He is a regular contributor on BBC Radio, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Macau. He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge - where he first met the Bevans - and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London. He is delighted to have collaborated again with the Bevan Family Consort on this recording.

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01.
Alleluia. Veni Domine noli tardare
03:24
(Traditional) Bevan Family Consort
02.
Rorate cæli (Transcr. Francis Bevan)
02:12
(Jacob Handl) Bevan Family Consort
03.
In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Francis Bevan)
04:39
(Harold Darke) Bevan Family Consort
04.
Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Kyrie
04:10
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Bevan Family Consort
05.
The Holly and the Ivy (Arr. H. Walford Davies)
03:00
(Traditional) Bevan Family Consort
06.
Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Gloria
05:29
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Bevan Family Consort
07.
There is a Flower
03:27
(John Audelay, Stanley Vann) Bevan Family Consort
08.
Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Credo
09:51
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Bevan Family Consort
09.
The Holy Boy
03:04
(John Ireland) Bevan Family Consort
10.
Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Sanctus
04:49
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Bevan Family Consort
11.
Gloria in excelsis Deo (Transcr. Francis Bevan)
03:14
(Thomas Weelkes) Bevan Family Consort
12.
Missa sine nomine a5 (Transcr. Francis Bevan): Agnus Dei
04:16
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Bevan Family Consort
13.
There is no rose
02:28
(John Joubert) Bevan Family Consort
14.
Ave Maria ... virgo serena
04:21
(Traditional) Bevan Family Consort
15.
Lute-book Lullaby
02:27
(David Bevan) Bevan Family Consort
16.
Benedicamus Domino
01:23
(Peter Warlock) Bevan Family Consort
17.
The Virgin Unspotted
02:21
(Imogen Holst) Bevan Family Consort
18.
Here is the Little Door
03:12
(Francis Chesterton, Herbert Howells) Bevan Family Consort
19.
O magnum mysterium (Transcr. Francis Bevan)
03:23
(Tomas Luis de Victoria) Bevan Family Consort
20.
Jesu dulcis memoria
03:33
(Pierre Villette) Bevan Family Consort
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