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Reviewer: Charles
Brewer
This is a most welcome release
of baroque Christmas music from both France and Nouvelle France (that is,
Quebec). Many of these tunes will be familiar from Charpentier’s Midnight
Mass or other instrumental arrangements of French noëls. What makes this new
release stand out is that it contains interesting arrangements for voices
and instruments, based on baroque originals, with the original texts (with
complete texts and translations in the booklet). A few of the arrangements
may sound a bit modern, such as the layers of soloist, choir, and
instruments in ‘Iesous Ahatonnia’, a traditional carol in Huron, first
recorded by French missionaries, but that is both quite creative and well
sung. The odd addition to the middle of the recording is a chamber version
of Corelli’s Christmas Concerto with recorders as the concertino, based on a
1725 arrangement printed in London.
Fresh sounds, excellent
performances, and interesting repertoire; this is a recording to return to
again and again. | |
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