Songs of Angels: Christmas Hymns & Carols

by Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chamber Singers

Overview

Robert Shaw's Songs of Angels: Christmas Hymn is an easy listening collection of classic carols and hymns. There are no contemporary songs -- it is supposed to capture the spirit of an olde-tyme Christmas. Since Shaw's arrangements are a little syrupy and mainstream, it doesn't quite reach its goal, but it's nevertheless a fairly entertaining listen that would work nicely as holiday background music. ~ Rodney Batdorf

Product Details

Release Date:	10/18/1994
Label:	Telarc Distribution
UPC:	0089408037726

Tracks

1. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
2. Angels We Have Heard on High
3. O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, emmanuel), carol
4. How Unto Bethlehem? (Italian)
5. The Boar's Head Carol
6. O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) (German)
7. Masters in This Hall
8. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English)
9. Away in a Manger
10. Good Christian Men, Rejoice
11. The Holly and the Ivy (English)
12. Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)
13. Wassail Song ("Here We Come A-Wassailing"), carol
14. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella ("Un flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle")
15. Fum, Fum, Fum (Catalan)
16. Mary Had A Baby
17. Hacia Bel¿¿n va un burro (Spanish)
18. Christ was born on Christmas day (German)
19. March of the Kings (French)
20. Coventry Carol (2): "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"
21. Deck the Halls (Welsh)
22. The Cherry Tree Carol
23. We Three Kings of Orient Are
24. Touro-Louro-Louro (Proven¿¿al carol)
25. So Blest A Sight (English)
26. I Saw Three Ships
27. What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
28. Susani (German)
29. In the Bleak Midwinter, for chorus & organ, H. 73

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Robert Shaw Chamber Singers   Primary Artist,Choir/Chorus
Robert Shaw   Primary Artist,Conductor,Ensemble,Director
Timothy Stalter   Primary Artist,Tenor (Vocal)
Wayne Baughman   Primary Artist,Bass (Vocal),Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Katherine Murray   Primary Artist,Alto (Vocals),Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Christopher Cock   Primary Artist,Tenor (Vocal)
Victor Ledbetter   Primary Artist,Baritone (Vocal),Baritone (Vocal)
Frank Timmerman   Primary Artist,Tenor (Vocal)
Donna Carter   Primary Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Ronald Burrichter   Primary Artist,Tenor (Vocal)
Nancy Llamazales   Alto (Vocals)
Mark Tschupp   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
James Marshall   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Rebekah Kinsey   Soprano (Vocal)
Charles Sprawls   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Delane Floyd   Alto (Vocals)
Lisa Hilliard   Soprano (Vocal)
Grace Edwards   Soprano (Vocal)
Soles Nannette   Alto (Vocals)
Robert Lower   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Caroline Shaw   Soprano (Vocal)
Karen Self   Soprano (Vocal)
Tom Granum   Tenor (Vocal)
Nola Frink   Alto (Vocals)
John Cooledge   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Heather Beard   Alto (Vocals)
Pamela Elrod   Alto (Vocals)
Jeffery Baxter   Tenor (Vocal)
Phoebe Snow   Soprano (Vocal)
Keith Lee   Tenor (Vocal)
David Blalock   Tenor (Vocal)
Michael Henry   Tenor (Vocal)
Jeff Baxter   Tenor (Vocal)
Anne Louise White   Soprano (Vocal)
Steve Jones   Bass (Vocal)
Carolyn Davis   Soprano (Vocal)
Voctor Ledbetter   Baritone (Vocal)
Tom Grantham   Tenor (Vocal)
Gerald Tedford   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Forrest Guittar   Tenor (Vocal)
Wayne Bailey   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Monte Nichols   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Jame Potter   Alto (Vocals)
Cheryl Lower   Soprano (Vocal)
Arietha Lockhart   Soprano (Vocal)
Rachel Stewart   Soprano (Vocal)
Lynn Craig   Alto (Vocals)
Charles Hamilton   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Timothy Swain   Tenor (Vocal)
Linda Sharp   Alto (Vocals)
Doris Granum   Soprano (Vocal)
Brent Weaver   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Jolle Greenleaf   Soprano (Vocal)
Steven Dale Jones   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Harold E. Kupper   Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Mike Henry   Tenor (Vocal)
Tim Stalter   Tenor (Vocal)
Ann Howard Jones   Alto (Vocals)

Technical Credits

Alice Parker   Arranger
Robert Shaw   Arranger,Composer,Lyricist
Robert Croo   Composer
Nick Jones   Liner Notes,Liner Notes
Michael Bishop   Technical Assistance
William Chatterton Dix   Composer,Lyricist
Christina Rossetti   Poetry,Composer
Elaine Martone   Production Supervisor
John Henry Hopkins, Jr.   Composer,Lyricist
Robert Woods   Producer
Scott Burgess   Editing
Susan Cybulski   Cover Design,Art Direction
William Sandys   Composer
Nicolas Saboly   Composer
John Mason Neale   Composer
Anilda Carrasquillo   Art Direction
Wayne Norman   Composer,Translation
J.M. Neale   Lyricist
Traditional   Composer
Gustav Holst   Composer
Jack Renner   Engineer
William "Willy Gunz" Morris   Composer
Kajo Paukert   Technical Assistance
Gaudenzio Ferrari   Cover Art,Cover Photo,Photography