The Holly and the Ivy: Carols from Clare College
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Composer: Christmas TraditionalComposer: John Rutter
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Harold Darke
Composer: Michael Praetorius
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Elizabeth Poston
Composer: George Ratcliffe Woodward
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conductor: John Rutter
Orchestra: Cambridge Clare College Orchestra
Performer: Mary Hitch
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-05-30
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- King Jesus hath a garden
- Up! Good Christian folk, and listen
- Gabriel's message
- Donkey Carol
- Wexford Carol
- Cradle Song
- Child in the Manger
- Mary's Lullaby
- Ding Dong! Merrily on high
- Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
- I saw a maiden
- In dulci jubilo
- In the bleak mid-winter
- I saw three ships
- The noble stem of Jesse
- Crown of Roses
- Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
- Omnis mundus jocundetur
- Traditional English Carols (8): no 8, Wassail Song
- The Holly and the Ivy
Free Music Notes for The Holly and the Ivy: Carols from Clare College
Free Music Review: Simply gorgeous
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this album through Columbia mail order, and it instantly became one of my favorite CDs in my collection of over 2000. When it was scratched beyond playability, I immediately re-purchased it. I have almost everything else John Rutter has put out, as well as the Dale Warland singers from the US.
The music is simply ethereal, and the songs are not the overplayed tunes we hear over and over and over.
My two complaints with the album are that some of the tracks are hard to hear because the singing is so quiet and the sound level is uneven between tracks, and some of the tracks have Rutter's cutesy, saccharine arrangements drowning out the singing (Donkey Carol is the protoypical, and one I frequently skip).
However, the album is so beautiful otherwise, with the Wexford Carol, and the nearly inaudible Jesus Christ The Apple Tree, and several other tracks, that I still have to give it a 5 star rating.
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