Ensemble Pro Victoria - Nowel: Advent & Beyond (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Advent Calendar
02. Isaiah 9: 2, 6–7
03. Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 1, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
04. Luke 1: 26–38
05. Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 2, Das Röslein, das ich meine
06. Luke 1: 39–45
07. Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 3, Meine Seele erhebt/Wir bitten dich
08. Luke 2: 1–7
09. Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 4, Das Blümelein, so kleine
10. Luke 2: 8–16
11. Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 5, Die Hirten zu der Stunden
12. Matthew 2: 1–12
13. Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 6, Lob, Ehr sei Gott, dem Vater
14. Luke 2: 25–32
15. Seven Chorale Variations from Die Weihnachtsgeschichte, Op. 10: No. 7, So singen wir all Amen
16. John 3: 16
17. Nowel el el: I. Procession O Emmanuel
18. Nowel el el: II. That lovely lady sat and song
19. Nowel el el: III. Owt of your slepe aryse and wake
20. Nowel el el: IV. This flour is fayre and fresche of heue
21. Nowel el el: V. Puer nobis natus est
22. Nowel el el: VI. Nowel el el
23. Nowel el el: VII. O sisters too
24. Nowel el el: VIII. Of a rose, a lovely rose
25. Nowel el el: IX. When Cryst was born of Mary fre
26. Nowel el el: X. This rose is reed of colour bryght
27. Nowel el el: XI. A babe is borne of hye natewre
28. Nowel el el: XII. Recession: O Emmanuel
29. A spotless rose
30. O Oriens
31. Lulla, Lullaby
32. Lully, Lulla, Lullay
33. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

Christmas comes in new and unexpected guises – like last leaf’s fall, in Rowan Williams’s poem Advent Calendar. Following three acclaimed Delphian recordings of Tudor music, Toby Ward and Ensemble Pro Victoria bring fresh, contemporary colours to the seasons of Advent and Christmas; the mood is quiet anticipation, guarded joy, sometimes even fear and uncertainty, as the Virgin – the spotless Rose at the still centre of it all – sings her son to sleep amidst death and persecution. Williams narrates the Nativity story, around which the choir weave Hugo Distler’s searching polyphonic variations; Piers Connor Kennedy’s Nowel el el for harp and just six men’s voices is an intimate companion piece – or contrast – to Britten’s famous carol cycle, and has its first recording here by the group for which it was written.

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