Malcolm Sargent, the most famous British choral trainer of the 20th century, was the conductor of the Royal Choral Society for nearly 40 years. Together they produced this collection of carols for release during 1954.
The garish cover may give you the impression that this is a small choir recorded in a parish church. Not at all - it actually is a very large chorus and the recording location was probably the Albert Hall, which the chorus called home - at least it sounds like that cavernous site. The recessed recording gives a very good sense of how the chorus sounded in person, at the loss of some detail and presence.
Many of the arrangements here are by Sargent; my favorite, however, is the soaring version of the hymn While Shepherds Watched.
In the download I've included HMV's four-page Christmas advertising insert from the December 1955 Gramophone Record Review - page three (with this LP) is below.
REMASTERED VERSION - DECEMBER 2014
4 comments:
Very nice record!
Many thanks!
René
www.renegagnaux.ch
Dear admin, this download link is dead, would you re-upload this soundtrack in MEGA ? Thanks :)
Remastered version (Apple lossless):
https://mega.co.nz/#!6QFlDSia!HqBdHKLZZoI42kCitZmz1-Lchy0ngDx2NRspa9_TkgY
Thank you your quick action :)
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