Voces Cantabiles Music is a British Educational Foundation, led by Artistic Director Barnaby Smith and an elite team of 19 professional performance artists, teachers, facilitators and workshop leaders that maintains 4 ensembles, Voces Cantabiles, Voces Cantabiles Youth Choir, the Senesino Players, a professional chamber orchestra, and Voces8, a professional a cappella vocal octet. 'Snowed In' is a finely-crafted Christmas collection of 17 songs by these 6 young men and 2 women singers, founded in 2003 by ex-choristers of Westminster Abbey. With a repertoire ranging from 13th century polyphony to new jazz arrangements, the group has toured extensively in Europe, winning first prizes at International Grand Prix in Goriza and at the European Grand Prix in Spain, for both the sacred and secular categories. Favorites are standards 'I Saw Three Ships,' 'The Boar's Head Carol,' 'Good King Wenceslas,' 'Gabriel's Message,' 'The Twelve Days of Christmas,' 'Ding Dong Merrily on High,' 'The Holly and the Ivy,' 'I Wonder as I Wander' and 'In the Bleak Midwinter,' but the fresh, clean sound of this talented group makes every selection a winner. Treat your family and friends to 'Snowed In,' one of the best Christmas recordings of the year! Listen to Ding Dong Merrily on High in RealAudio. |