Gaudete
Arranged by Classic FM’s Hall of Fame 2004 ‘top-ten-composer’ Karl Jenkins, Gaudete is presented here, both with drums and percussion and as a pure, unadulterated, a cappella version. Gaudete (“rejoice”) is an anonymous composition that was first published in 1582 in a collection of carols and other religious songs called Piae Cantiones. This collection, made by a Scandinavian called Peter Nyland, included a huge number of other Christmas melodies that have since become ‘standards’, but it only gives music for the chorus of Gaudete; the verses, which tell of the wonder of God’s arrival on earth in human form, have been taken from a Czech medieval song about the Virgin Mary, Ezechielis Porta.
- Release Date: 01 October 2004
- Record Label: Signum Classics
- Catalogue Number: SIGCD050
- Location of Recording: St Michael’s Church, Highgate, London
- Total Running Time: 00:25:45
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| Buy | # | Title | Composer | Duration | Price | Listen |
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| 1 | Gaudete | Traditional (arr. Karl Jenkins) | 01:42 | £ | Listen | |
| 2 | Après un rêve | Gabriel Fauré (arr. Alexander L'Estrange) | 03:25 | £ | Listen | |
| 3 | The Lamb | John Tavener | 03:54 | £ | Listen | |
| 4 | Gaudete (a cappella) | Traditional (arr. Karl Jenkins) | 01:44 | £ | Listen | |
| 5 | Canon | Johann Pachelbel (arr. Alexander L'Estrange) | 04:46 | £ | Listen | |
| 6 | Mother and Child (extract) | John Tavener | 04:37 | £ | Listen | |
| 7 | Clapping Music | Steve Reich | 05:33 | £ | Listen |