The Holly and the Ivy: Carols from Clare College | 
 enlarge | Creators: Anonymous, Harold Darke, Elizabeth Poston, Michael Praetorius, John Rutter, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Christmas Traditional, Ralph Vaughan Williams, G.r. Woodward, Cambridge Clare College Orchestra, Mary Hitch
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Rating:  16 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 425500
UPC: 028942550025
EAN: 0028942550025
Release Date: May 30, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | King Jesus Hath a Garden - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional | | • | Up! Good Christian Folk, And Listen - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Woodward, G. R. | | • | Gabriel's Message - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Baring, Sabine | | • | Donkey Carol - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Rutter, John | | • | Wexford Carol - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional | | • | Cradle Song - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Rutter, John | | • | Child in a Manger - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Rutter, John | | • | Mary's Lullaby - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Rutter, John | | • | Ding! Dong! Merrily on High - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional | | • | ...Uelle Est Cette Odeur Agreable? - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional | | • | I Saw a Maiden - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional | | • | In Dulci Jubilo - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Pearsall, R. L. | | • | In the Bleak Mid-Winter - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Rossetti, Christina | | • | I Saw Three Ships - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Sandys, William | | • | The Noble Stem of Jesse - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional | | • | The crown of roses - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, | | • | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Anonymous | | • | Omnis Mundus Jucundetur - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Praetorius, M. | | • | Wassail Song - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional | | • | The Holly and the Ivy - Clare College Choir & Orchestra, Cambridge, Traditional |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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Initially released in 1979, this album built on the success of the legendary Carols for Choirs volumes in establishing John Rutter's name with the wider public, and it gave a strong hint that he was more than just a talented composer-arranger. As the many subsequent releases on the Collegium label have also shown, Rutter is a deeply sensitive and musical conductor, alive to the color of words, always allowing phrases to breathe naturally. The accomplished Clare College Choir features male and female voices, the latter providing a more rounded alternative to those world-famous neighbors in Cambridge. Included are many of Rutter's own easy-listening carol arrangements ("King Jesus Hath a Garden" and "Wexford Carol," for example), plus others by the likes of Vaughan Williams and David Willcocks, while "Donkey Carol" and "Mary's Lullaby" are quintessential Rutter originals. Only a few numbers can be classed (statistically) as all-time Christmas faves--the likes of "The Holly and the Ivy" and "Ding Dong Merrily on High"--but this needn't deter anyone from snapping up what is the perfect album to accompany Christmas pud mixing (preferably by candlelight, imagining the twilight scene in Ely Cathedral's Lady Chapel, whose glorious acoustic graces the sound). --Andrew Green
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
more excellent Christmas listening December 31, 2007
Sue Ametsreiter (Harrisonburg, VA)
I bought this CD as a replacement for the old vinyl recording I got years ago. This is one of my favorite Christmas albums. If you like John Rutter and his choral Christmas works, then you will want to own this CD. There are newer recordings since this was originally recorded (and I have them, too), but this was one of the first ones that I heard and it has sentimental value. And, once again, Amazon's price is the best.
Pure joy November 28, 2007
J. Nilsson (Deep South Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Whatever tensions you may have this Christmas, they will begin to melt away when you hear this music. I find myself thinking about this CD throughout the year; I don't know any other piece of music that does that to me. The songs go from reflective to joyful. As a matter of fact, my parakeets burst into song themselves when they hear, "King Jesus hath a garden" and "Donkey Carol". Careful listeners can hear a donkey bray during the Donkey Carol -- great fun. John Rutter and the Clare College Choir have given us a sterling musical gift.
Sure to Spread Some Joy November 20, 2007
Artful Dodger (United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have just recently started to explore the world of choral music and I am so glad to have purchased this CD. To use an old-fashioned term, it is truly delightful. The song 'Donkey Carol' is my favorite and it is sure to bring a smile to the face of even the most misanthropic scrooge.
Simply gorgeous April 9, 2007
dredzo (KCMO)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this album through Columbia mail order, and it instantly became one of my favorite CDs in my collection of over 2000. When it was scratched beyond playability, I immediately re-purchased it. I have almost everything else John Rutter has put out, as well as the Dale Warland singers from the US.
The music is simply ethereal, and the songs are not the overplayed tunes we hear over and over and over.
My two complaints with the album are that some of the tracks are hard to hear because the singing is so quiet and the sound level is uneven between tracks, and some of the tracks have Rutter's cutesy, saccharine arrangements drowning out the singing (Donkey Carol is the protoypical, and one I frequently skip).
However, the album is so beautiful otherwise, with the Wexford Carol, and the nearly inaudible Jesus Christ The Apple Tree, and several other tracks, that I still have to give it a 5 star rating.
Angelic Music January 15, 2007
Mary Heimerman (CO Springs, CO United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Lovely. So classic and ethereal. Perfect with Christmas dinner, or quiet card games by the fire.
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