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Table of Contents:

• For now I am winter / Ólafur Arnalds ; Arnor Dan Arnarson ; arr. Geoff Lawson (4:46)
• Es ist ein Ros entsprungen / Jan Sandström ; after Michael Praetorius (3:47)
• Winter / Rebecca Dale ; text by Tamsin Collison (5:03)
• Balulalow / Francis Pott ; text by James, John & Robert Wedderburn (2:54)
• Nunc dimittis / Arvo Pärt (5:45)
• Plainscapes. Plainscape I (5:28) ; Plainscape II (3:39) ; Plainscape III (7:30) / Pēteris Vasks
• Come wander with me / Jeff Alexander ; Tony Wilson ; arr. Geoff Lawson (4:06)
• In the bleak midwinter / Ola Gjeilo ; after Gustav Holst ; text by Christina Georgina Rosetti (5:12)
• The fruit of silence / Pēteris Vasks ; text by Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (5:33)
• Nunc dimittis / Sergei Rachmaninov (3:27)
• The darkness is no darkness / Judith Bingham (4:29)
• The snow it melts the soonest / trad. ; arr. Geoff Lawson (3:35).

Contributors:

Samuelsen, Mari, 1984- , instrumentalist

Samuelsen, Håkon, 1981- , instrumentalist

Roskams, Benjamin , instrumentalist

Oade, Stephanie , instrumentalist

Turner, Eleanor, 1982- , instrumentalist

Watkins, Huw, 1976- , instrumentalist

Lawson, Geoff , arranger of music

Ólafur Arnalds, 1986-

Sandström, Jan.

Dale, Rebecca

Pott, Francis, 1957-

Pärt, Arvo

Vasks, Pēteris, 1946-

Alexander, Jeff

Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943

Bingham, Judith

Voces8 (Musical group) , singer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sng

Languages:

English
German
Latin
Russian

Language Notes:

Sung in English, German, Latin, vocalise, and Russian.

Included Works:

For now I am winter [by Ólafur Arnalds] (arranged)

Det är en ros utsprungen [by Sandström, J.]

Winter [by Dale, R.]

Balulalow [by Pott, F.]

Nunc dimittis [by Pärt, A.]

Plainscapes [by Vasks, P.]

Come wander with me [by Alexander, J.] (arranged)

In the bleak midwinter [by Holst, G.] (arranged)

Fruit of silence [by Vasks, P.]

Vsenoshchnoe bdenie [by Rachmaninoff, S.] > Nyne otpushchaeshi

Darkness is no darkness [by Bingham, J.]

Snow it melts the soonest

Subjects:

Vocal octets with instrumental ensemble

Vocal octets, Unaccompanied

Vocal octets with viola

Vocal octets with piano

Vocal octets with harp

Winter — Songs and music

Winter

Genres:

Chamber music

Arrangements (Music)

Songs and music

Performers:

Voces8 (Andrea Haines, Emily Dickens, sopranos ; Chris Wardle, Barnaby Smith, countertenors ; Blake Morgan, Sam Dressel, tenors ; Robert Clark, Jonathan Pacey, basses) ; with variously: Mari Samuelson, violin ; Håkon Samuelson, Stephanie Oade, cellos ; Benjamin Roskams, viola ; Eleanor Turner, harp ; Huw Watkins, piano, celesta ; additional singers.

Performance Medium:

3 performers and 1 ensemble: solo vocal ensemble; pedal harp; viola; cello
1 ensemble: solo vocal ensemble
3 performers and 1 ensemble: solo vocal ensemble; violin; cello; celesta
2 performers and 1 ensemble: solo vocal ensemble; violin; cello
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo vocal ensemble; viola
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo vocal ensemble; piano
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo vocal ensemble; pedal harp

General Notes:

Title from disc label.
Program notes in English and full credits inserted in container.
Recorded 2016 June 7, August 17-18 All Saint's Church, Tooting.
Recorded 2016 June 30-July 1 Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (1:05:17) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 154,248

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 028948309689
Publisher Number, Decca: 483 0968
Publisher Number, Decca: 00289 483 0968

OCLC Numbers:

957749983