Britten / Holst / Lauridsen Candlelight Carols-Music For Chorus & Harp CD

As the third installment of "A Seraphic Fire Christmas", Candlelight Carols: Music for Chorus and Harp is a unique collaboration between the pure, crystalline harp and warm, resonant voices. + This remarkable recording evokes an angelic, wintry atmosphere within an intimate, candle-lit chapel. + With Candlelight Carols, Seraphic Fire masterfully interweaves original arrangements of traditional carols with modern masterpieces. + Seraphic Fire is regarded as one of the preeminent chamber ensembles in the United States. In 2012, two of their recordings, Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem and A Seraphic Fire Christmas, were nominated for GRAMMY½ awards. + Seraphic Fire was the only choral group in North or South America to be nominated, and the only classical ensemble in the world to receive nominations for two separate projects. + Led by Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Dupre? Quigley, Seraphic Fire brings some of the finest singers and instrumentalists from around the country to perform repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant and Baroque masterpieces to newly commissioned works.

1. Watching the Wheat / John Thomas (4:10) 2. What Sweeter Music? / John Rutter (4:28) 3. O Magnum Mysterium / Francis Poulenc (3:36) 4. In the Bleak Midwinter / Gustav Holst ; Arr. Abbie Betinis (5:52) 5. Angels We Have Heard on High / Arr. Patrick Dupre Quigley (2:18) 6. A Ceremony of Carols. Deo Gracias ; There Is No Rose ; Balulalow ; This Little Babe / Benjamin Britten (6:56) 7. Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep / Jake Runestad (4:23) 8. Still, Still, Still / Austrian Traditional, Arr. Norman Luboff (3:25) 9. O Nata Lux : From Lux Aeterna / Morten Laurdisen (4:06) 10. Quittez Pasteurs / French Traditional, Arr. John Rutter (2:27) 11. Huron Carol / Jesse Edgar Middleton ; Arr. Susan Labarr (5:06) 12. The Joy of Children : Patapan / Burgundian Traditional, Arr. Kirke Mechem (1:32) 13. Candlelight Carol / John Rutter (4:29)