Silent Night
Silent Night
This holiday CD features holiday choral music from England, France, and Germany, plus readings from soldiers who lived through the Christmas Truce of WWI. Silent Night was recorded live in 2018 at Bastyr University Chapel, and marked 100 years since the end of the “war to end all wars.” Treat yourself to this musical celebration of an inspiring peace during wartime.
Track Listing
La Guerre (“The battle”, part 2) - Clément Jannequin (1485–1558, France)
Yver (“Winter” from Trois chansons) - Claude Debussy (1862–1918, France)
Reading – It’s an unending Hell…
Reading – The coldest winter…
Christmas Eve - Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962, England) (Soundcloud)
Hymn of the nativity - Kenneth Leighton (1929–88, England)
Reading – This has been the most wonderful Christmas…
Reading – All down our line of trenches…
Stille Nacht (“Silent night”) - Franz Gruber (1787–1863, Austria) (Soundcloud)
Reading – We are having the most extraordinary Christmas…
Wassail Song - Traditional English carol, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Reading – They were met…
Still, still, still - Traditional German carol, arr. Karen P. Thomas (YouTube preview)
Reading – Really, you would hardly have thought we were at war
Maria Wiegenlied (“Mary’s lullaby”) - Max Reger (1873–1916, Germany)
Reading – On Christmas Day…
Here is the little door - Herbert Howells (1892–1983, England) (Soundcloud)
Bethlehem Down - Peter Warlock (1894–1930, England)
Puer natus (“A child is born”) - Michael Praetorius (1571–1621, Germany)
Reading – Dear Mother…
Videntes stellam (“They saw a star”) - Francis Poulenc (1899–1963, France)
Listen, God is calling us to peace - David Christopher Horton (b. 1986, US)
Reading – When the Christmas bells sounded…
Weihnachten (“Christmas”) - Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47, Germany) (YouTube preview)
Hodie (“This day”) - Francis Poulenc (1899–1963, France) (YouTube preview)
Reading – On November 11, 1918…
Alleluya, a new work - Peter Wishart (1921–84, England) (YouTube preview) (Soundcloud)