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'Everything you need to know about every carol ever written' Choir & Organ
Music and texts of 201 carols for the Christmas season (many in more than one setting), each with copious notes on historical background and performance. An extensive general introduction gives an overview of the history of the carol, and there are a number of appendices dealing with specific areas of the repertory. The book's approach is an attempt to rediscover the native vitality of material that has sometimes been debased and sentimentalized, by means of `authentic' period settings and a concern for historically informed performance.…mehr

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'Everything you need to know about every carol ever written' Choir & Organ

Music and texts of 201 carols for the Christmas season (many in more than one setting), each with copious notes on historical background and performance. An extensive general introduction gives an overview of the history of the carol, and there are a number of appendices dealing with specific areas of the repertory. The book's approach is an attempt to rediscover the native vitality of material that has sometimes been debased and sentimentalized, by means of
`authentic' period settings and a concern for historically informed performance.
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Autorenporträt
Andrew Parrott, englischer Dirigent und Musikschriftsteller; Gründer und Leiter des Taverner Choir, Consort and Players, mit denen er für EMI (Virgin) und Sony zahlreiche Schallplatten eingespielt hat, darunter von J. S. Bach die "Hohe Messe h-moll", das "Magnificat", die "Johannes-Passion", das "Oster-Oratorium" sowie einige Kantaten.
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And everything you need to know about every carol ever written (and that is only a slight exaggeration) is to be found in The New Oxford Book of Carols published in 1992. I'm just surprised that BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs hasn't yet introduced Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott's extraordinary work of scholarly musicianship to its closing material: 'So, we'll give you the Bible, the complete works of Shakespeare, and The New Oxford Book of Carols, which other book . . . ? Jeremy Summerly, Choir & Organ, November 13