Hilary Davan Wetton - Hodie (Christmas Cantata) / Fantasia on Christmas (CD)

Details: Vaughan Williams' Christmas Cantata Hodie is a brilliant mosaic of musical styles set to poetry from the most diverse sources. Texts by Milton, Hardy, and George Herbert reflecting various Christmas experiences are bound together by a narration.

Tracklist:

1. Prologue: Nowell! Nowell!
2. Narration: Now Is the Birth of Jesus Christ
3. Song: It Was the Winter Wild
4. Narration: And It Came to Pass in Those Days
5. Choral: The Blessed Son of God
6. Narration: And There Were in the Same Country
7. Song: The Oxen
8. Narration: And the Shepherds Returned
9. Pastoral: The Shepherds Sing
10. Narration: But Mary Kept All These Things
11. Lullaby: Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sang
12. Hymn: Bright Portals of the Sky
13. Narration: Now When Jesus Was Born
14. The March of the Three Kings: From Kingdoms of Wisdom
15. Choral: No Sad Thought His Soul Affright
16. Epilogue: In the Beginning Was the Word