Nowel: Advent & Beyond CD Delphian Records

Nowel: A Choral Journey from Advent to Christmas CD Delphian Records

DCD34315-CD

Nowel: Advent & Beyond

£19.99

GLOBAL RELEASE DATE: 14 NOVEMBER 2025

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Christmas comes in new and unexpected guises – like last leaf’s fall, in Rowan Williams’s poem Advent Calendar. Following three acclaimed Delphian recordings of Tudor music, Toby Ward and Ensemble Pro Victoria bring fresh, contemporary colours to the seasons of Advent and Christmas; the mood is quiet anticipation, guarded joy, sometimes even fear and uncertainty, as the Virgin – the spotless Rose at the still centre of it all – sings her son to sleep amidst death and persecution. Williams narrates the Nativity story, around which the choir weave Hugo Distler’s searching polyphonic variations; Piers Connor Kennedy’s Nowel el el for harp and just six men’s voices is an intimate companion piece – or contrast – to Britten’s famous carol cycle, and has its first recording here by the group for which it was written.

Recorded on 28 February 2023 in All Hallows’,
Gospel Oak and 4-5 March 2024 in Lyddington
Parish Church, Rutland
Producer/Engineer: Paul Baxter
24-bit digital editing: Jack Davis
24-bit digital mastering: Paul Baxter
Cover photograph: Vincent Guth
Design: Drew Padrutt
Booklet editor: Henry Howard
Session photography: Will Coates-Gibson/Foxbrush

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Category: Advent & Christmas, Choral, Ensemble Pro Victoria, Piers Kennedy, Rowan Williams, Toby Ward