{"product_id":"tewkesbury-abbey-christmas-carols-from-tewkesbury-abbey-various","title":"Tewkesbury Abbey- Christmas Carols from Tewkesbury Abbey \/ Various (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditionally carols were not necessarily confined to the Christmas season, but were dance-songs. The dancers of Kölbigk, indeed, found themselves in difficulties with the Church, condemned by an angry priest to dance for a whole year, as a punishment for their neglect of religious duties, carolling at an inappropriate time in the churchyard. Nevertheless, even in the Middle Ages, there were carols specifically for Christmas, the season with which nowadays these songs are most closely associated. It has become the fashion to use very considerable technical and musical skill in the arrangement of essentially simple and popular music for the kind of sophisticated performance to be found in the major English choral foundations, and on these arrangements composers annually use much ingenuity and artifice. The Tewkesbury Abbey carols open with The first Nowell, in an arrangement by Sir David Willcocks, a musician well known for his long association with King's College, Cambridge, and it's choir, and with the London Bach Choir. The series continues with another David Willcocks arrangement, this time of an old Basque carol, with well known words by S. Baring-Gould, Gabriel's Message. Other fine arrangements by David Willcocks include a version of the popular While shepherds watched their flocks, from Thomas East's 1592 publication, The Whole Booke of Psalmes with their Wonted Tunes, as they are sung in Churches. The Polish carol Infant holy, infant lowly is included, with the fifteenth century French Franciscan processional Come, o come Emmanuel. Two other French carols arranged by David Willcocks are Angels from the realms of glory and Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (Whence is that goodly fragrance flowings?), the latter sung here in French. A final arrangement by David Willcocks in the present collection is of the traditional English watchman's song God rest ye merry, gentlemen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe First Nowell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGabriel's Message\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Maiden Most Gentle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhile Shepherds Watched Their Flocks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfant Holy, Infant Lowly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSans Day Carol\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shepherds' Cradle-Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKarl Leuner: Come, O Come Emmanuel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Holly And The Ivy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shepherds' Farewell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristains Awake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Truth From Above\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAngels From The Realms Of Glory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuelle Est Cette Odeur Agreable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdam Lay Y-Bounden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAs With Gladness Men Of Old\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Saw A Maiden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGood King Wenceslas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Road To Bethlehem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGod Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46985432137949,"sku":"730099407724","price":138.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/127149.jpg?v=1762929261","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/zh-cn\/products\/tewkesbury-abbey-christmas-carols-from-tewkesbury-abbey-various","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}