Bednall: Welcome All Wonders, A Christmas Cantata

Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford, Clarke, Manley / Rees

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212033524

Catalog number: SIGCD 335
Releasedate: 01-09-13

http://www.signumrecords.com/products/booklets/SIGCD335booklet.pdf

Welcome all Wonders: A Christmas Cantata is a large-scale work for choir, organ, and trumpet spanning 15 movements. It celebrates the Christmas story through an imaginative selection and juxtaposition of poetry and liturgical texts, and provides a multifaceted telling of the familiar narrative. The celebratory aspects of Christmas are tainted by darker themes that are inherent to the story but are easily overlooked, culminating in an enlightened and engaging work that explores the Christmas story in a profound manner. The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford is among the finest and most active university choirs in the UK. Its wide-ranging repertory includes a rich array of Renaissance and Baroque music and contemporary works.

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