Christmas Lullaby (original) (raw)
Christmas Lullaby is a popular sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a lullaby for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning "Clear in the darkness", three stanzas with the refrain "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary"). Rutter scored the piece for four vocal parts (SATB) and piano, adding other versions. He composed it on a 1989 commission from The Bach Choir for the celebration of the 70th birthday of their conductor David Willcocks. It was first performed at the choir's Christmas concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, an event that Rutter knew from being a member of the audience as a boy.
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| dbo:abstract | Christmas Lullaby is a popular sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a lullaby for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning "Clear in the darkness", three stanzas with the refrain "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary"). Rutter scored the piece for four vocal parts (SATB) and piano, adding other versions. He composed it on a 1989 commission from The Bach Choir for the celebration of the 70th birthday of their conductor David Willcocks. It was first performed at the choir's Christmas concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, an event that Rutter knew from being a member of the audience as a boy. The work was published by Oxford University Press in 1990. It was published in a German edition, Weihnachts-Wiegenlied, with a text translated by Alex Brendelmeier, by Bärenreiter in 1998. It became part of the John Rutter Anniversary Edition. Christmas Lullaby has been recorded several times, notably with the composer conducting the Cambridge Singers on an album The John Rutter Christmas Album. It was also sung by the chamber choir Polyphony with the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Stephen Layton. (en) |
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| dbp:caption | Maria mit dem Kinde, by Dagmar Anders, 1990 (en) |
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| dbp:name | Christmas Lullaby (en) |
| dbp:scoring | SATB choir and piano or organ or small orchestra (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Christmas Lullaby is a popular sacred choral composition by John Rutter, a lullaby for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning "Clear in the darkness", three stanzas with the refrain "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary"). Rutter scored the piece for four vocal parts (SATB) and piano, adding other versions. He composed it on a 1989 commission from The Bach Choir for the celebration of the 70th birthday of their conductor David Willcocks. It was first performed at the choir's Christmas concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, an event that Rutter knew from being a member of the audience as a boy. (en) |
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