Cérémonie de chœurs de Noël
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Description
Britten's much-loved Christmas choral classic is now available for performance in French for the first time. Maurice Budry translated the majority of the work, with Britten’s approval, and it was broadcast by Radio Romande on Christmas Day, 1964, by Chœur de Dames de Lausanne. The three missing movements have now been translated by Agnès Ausseur and Jalal Zaïm especially for this edition. Includes phonetic glossary (with modern English equivalent words) to assist native French speakers who wish to perform in the original English. Preface by Philip Reed (French and English), formerly of the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh.
Content
1. Procession / Procession d'entrée (Latin)
2. Wolcum Yole! (anon 14th-century English; Fr tr by Maurice Budry)
3. There is no Rose / Il n'est de rose (anon 14th-century English; Fr tr by Maurice Budry)
4a. That yongë child / Cet enfançon (anon 14th-century English; Fr tr by Agnès Ausseur)
4b. Balulalow (James, John and Robert Wedderburn; Fr tr by Maurice Budry)
5. As dew in Aprille / La Rosée d’avril (anon English c1400; Fr tr by Jalal Zaïm)
6. This little Babe / Ce petit enfant (Robert Southwell; Fr tr by Maurice Budry)
7. Interlude (harp solo)
8. In Freezing Winter Night / Dans la nuit glacée de l’hiver (Robert Southwell; Fr tr by Maurice Budry)
9. Spring Carol / Choeur de printemps (William Cornish; Fr tr by Agnès Ausseur)
10. Deo Gracias (anon 15th-centurt Latin & English; Fr tr by Maurice Budry)
11. Recession / Procession de sortie (Latin)
Appendix (for performance with piano): 9. Spring Carol / Choeur de printemps (William Cornish; Fr tr by Agnès Ausseur)