Rebecca Lea, Caroline Jaya-Ratnam - The New Winter Songbook (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Dust of Snow
02. North
03. On White Meadows
04. Sundowning
05. Winter Spell
06. Frost Fair
07. The Darkest Midnight (Version for Voice & Piano)
08. Winter Fragments
09. Christmas Eve at Sea
10. Cradle Song
11. Natural State
12. Twelfth Night

CD2
01. The Core of Time
02. Villanelle: New Year's Eve
03. Lethe - Oblivion
04. Snow Day
05. Ariadne
06. Snowdrop
07. The Nineteenth Night of December
08. Winters Distant
09. Seasonal Clothing

The New Winter Songbook project is a new collection of twenty-one songs reflecting contemporary experiences of and attitudes towards the winter season from composers spanning a range of experiences and backgrounds. Many, though not all, are settings of secular texts. Whilst more traditional winter themes do recur within the songs –those of cold, loss, stillness, grief and darkness – those of belief, faith, and hope, offer an emotional counterbalance. Each individual composer approaches and explores these themes from their own perspective, lending their voice to a musical tapestry, expressing what it means to reflect upon and celebrate the season of winter today. The songs are to be published by Hal Leonard as an anthology in November 2025.

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