Matthew Whittall: Christmas Hath a Darkness – Four carols for Advent
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Matthew Whittall: Christmas Hath a Darkness – Four carols for Advent

for mixed choirText: Christina RossettiThis cycle of carols traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. 55011-455-5, € 13,60

Matthew Whittall: Northlands
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Matthew Whittall: Northlands

album for horn and stringsNorthlands is a concertante work for horn and strings, written for Tommi Hyytiäinen. The composer writes that Northlands was influenced by his brief experience with Iceland, its epic landscapes and otherworldly light, which had had an immediate and powerful impact both on the composer and the concept for the piece. Study…