Jurowski conducts Vaughan Williams, Bach & Mendelssohn

CD: Jurowski conducts Vaughan Williams, Bach & Mendelssohn

Vaughan Williams The First Nowell
J S Bach Cantata No. 63 (Christen, ätzet diesen Tag)
Mendelssohn Vom Himmel hoch

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Lisa Milne soprano
Ruxandra Donose mezzo-soprano
Andrew Staples tenor
Christopher Maltman baritone
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir

The festival of Christmas is rich in music for worship and for concert performance, much of it rooted in seasonal hymns or traditional melodies. This recording of festive choral music includes one of Bach’s richly scored cantatas and Mendelssohn’s Christmas song Vom Himmel hoch which was inspired by his admiration for the music of Bach. Vaughan Williams’s nativity play The First Nowell incorporates arrangements of many traditional English carols.

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