Listen & tracks

16 works · 39:11

1 O Come All Ye Faithful Traditional 2:24
2 A Christmas Lullaby Johannes Brahms 3:34
3 Away in a Manger Traditional 2:13
4 The Virgin and the Child Colin Brumby 2:32
5 Stars of Ice Chinese Folk Song 3:14
6 I Saw a Fair Maiden Peter Warlock 2:47
7 Silent Night Traditional 2:02
8 Mary Had a Baby Spiritual 2:27
9 Caroling, Caroling Alfred Burt :58
10 Deck the Halls Traditional 1:30
11 Still, Still, Still Traditional 3:19
12 O Little Town of Bethlehem Traditional 1:59
13 I Saw Three Ships Traditional 1:15
14 White Christmas Irving Berlin 3:17
15 Children, Go Where I Send You Nina Simone 2:51
16 A Night Out for Dobbin Kip Dubbs Jingle Bells 2:49

Recorded at Toorak Uniting Church over three sessions in August and September 1983 on Sony digital equipment, this Christmas programme ranges from traditional carols and folk arrangements to works by Colin Brumby, Peter Warlock, Alfred Burt, Irving Berlin and Nina Simone.

Artists

The Faye Dumont Singers

choir

Faye Dumont is the founder and director of the Faye Dumont Singers, a long-running Melbourne-based choir.

Irving Berlin

composer

Irving Berlin wrote the songs that lodge in the ear and stay there: White Christmas, Easter Parade, Blue Skies, Puttin' on the Ritz. Simple, direct, and built for the heart, they still travel wherever melody is welcome.

Johannes Brahms

composer

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. His music for piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and voice remains central to the concert repertoire.

Colin Brumby

composer

Colin Brumby (1933–2018) was an Australian composer and conductor whose prolific catalogue ranges across opera, concertos, chamber music, choral works and songs.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was an English composer of nine symphonies, operas, ballets, and a large body of choral and vocal music. Drawing on Tudor polyphony and English folk-song, he helped free British music from its nineteenth-century German models.

Robert Berglund

composer

Alfred Burt

composer

Alfred Burt wrote fifteen Christmas carols whose clear, singable lines and warm four-part writing have made pieces such as Caroling, Caroling and Some Children See Him favourites far beyond the family cards for which they began.

Kip Dubbs

composer

Kip Dubbs is a composer and arranger of Christmas music, including carols and seasonal arrangements recorded for the Move catalogue.

Norman Luboff

composer

Norman Luboff (1917–1987) was an American choir director, arranger and music publisher. He founded the Norman Luboff Choir and wrote thousands of choral arrangements, among them Christmas settings still widely sung.

Alice Parker

composer

Alice Parker (1925–2023) was an American composer, arranger, conductor and teacher, best known for choral settings of hymns, spirituals and folk songs that entered the repertoire of choirs worldwide.

Robert Shaw

composer

Robert Shaw was a choral arranger whose folk, traditional and spiritual settings became staples of the a cappella repertoire.

Nina Simone

composer

Gregg Smith

composer

Benjamin Suchoff

composer

Salli Terri

composer

Peter Warlock

composer

Peter Warlock (1894–1930) was a British composer best known for songs and other vocal music. Under that name he left a distinctive body of carols, folk arrangements and the popular dance suite Capriol.