Somerville College Choir, Oxford - The Dawn of Grace: Music for Christmas (2022)

Oxford’s Somerville College Choir under its director Will Dawes presents this compelling new programme of seasonal choral works solely by female composers from across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and including no fewer than eleven world premieres. This wide-ranging selection of repertoire reflects Somerville’s unique role as the only non-denominational college chapel at Oxford, as well as remaining true to its founding principle of enabling women. Together these works tell a different story of the nativity but also of the times we live in, when diversity and equality capture the spirit not only of Christ, but Christmas itself.

Tracklist
[04:00] 01. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - O Oriens
[04:02] 02. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Behind the Clouds
[02:12] 03. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Drop Down, Ye Heavens
[03:22] 04. Luca Morgante - On This Day, Earth Shall Ring: II. Veni, veni Emmanuel
[03:51] 05. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - There Is No Rose
[02:10] 06. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - A Tender Shoot
[03:36] 07. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Ivy, Chief of Trees
[04:44] 08. Luca Morgante - The Dawn of Redeeming Grace
[04:30] 09. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - O magnum mysterium
[03:45] 10. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Peace On Earth
[01:44] 11. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - In Bethlehem Above
[04:20] 12. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Star of Rohini
[03:50] 13. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - This Endris Night
[02:32] 14. Luca Morgante - Adeste fideles
[03:11] 15. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Noel: Verbum caro factum est
[02:23] 16. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - My Guardian Angel
[02:53] 17. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Ding Dong Diggety! (Arr. for choir by Janet Wheeler)
[03:04] 18. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - The Holly and the Ivy (Arr. for choir and organ by June Nixon)
[01:42] 19. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Alleluia! A New Work is Come On Hand
[03:44] 20. Somerville College Choir, Oxford - Gaude et laetare