The collection of ‘Old English Christmas and Winter Songs’ by Ortrud Hommes expands the Christmas repertoire for recorder quartet in a suitable way. It includes not only well-known carols such as ‘We Wish you a Merry Christmas’, but also less popular pieces such as ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ or ‘Drive the Cold Winter Away’. All songs are arranged chronologically, modulated and re-set. In this way, the artful simplicity and emotional depth of the songs is conveyed.
Content:
- Lullay, Lullay: When I Lay on Yoolis Night
- Conventry Carol
- On This Day Earth Shall Ring
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Drive the Cold Winter Away
- Now Winter Comes Slowly
- God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
- The Snow it Melts the Soonest
- We Three Kings of Orient Are
- In The Bleak Midwinter
