Herald AV Publications

HAVPCD255 – I look from afar

	Disk Title	I look from afar
		A Sequence for Christmas
	Soloists	Rosemary Field (Organ)
	Choir	The Choir of Portsmouth Cathedral
	Conductor	David Price
	Location	Portsmouth Cathedral
	Date Recorded	February 2000
	Audio Tracks	17

Increasingly, Christmas seems to start long before the liturgists and musicians have begun to think about services on Advent Sunday. When we finally get to the celebration of Christ’s birthday, we may find ourselves tired and jaded by it all – our real celebration of Christmas is quickly over – we turn our minds to the New Year, driven by the world’s agenda. Hence this disc: it tries to recapture some of that music that may easily be lost in our rush to get Christmas over and done with. So, although we open with a traditional Advent text, we focus on the music of the Christmas season itself, and illustrate its movement through to the Baptism of Christ and Candlemas.

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