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Phoenix Bach Choir: A Southwest Christmas

Song Name   Composer
Milagros de Navidad   Ed Henderson
Los Reyes de Oriente    Ed Henderson
Angels we have heard on high    Ed Henderson
A la nanita nana (Lullaby)   Ed Henderson
Alla en el portal (Away in a manger)    Ed Henderson
Noche de paz (Silent night)    Ed Henderson
Fum fum fum    Ed Henderson
Noel Sing We   Jon Washburn
Magnificat secundi toni   Hernando Franco
Lo, how a rose e're blooming   arr. Jon Washburn
The Star   Jon Washburn
I wonder as I wander   Johann Sebastian Bach
How brightly shines the morning star   Johann Sebastian Bach
Rise up, shepherd, an' follow   Johann Sebastian Bach
Weihnachtslieder   Johann Sebastian Bach

Directed by Jon Washburn

The Phoenix Bach Choir four years ago premiered Milagros de Navidad, a Christmas cycle for choir as a way of marking the holiday season in a Southwestern accent. In this recording, the choir has made Milagros the lead item in a superbly produced and packaged yuletide CD from an emerging Arizona label, Soundset. Jon Washburn conducts the ensemble of Frank Koonce, guitar; Mark Sunkett, percussion; and the choir with select soloists. In this sonically clean and vibrant recording, Milagros is a compendium of yuletide songs lovingly sung in Spanish and English, with running commentary from guitarist Koonce. Robert Tree Cody, on Native American Flute (the instrument of choice this season, it seems), is also heard here, in Washburn's own Noel Sing We, a kind of American Indian-haunted holiday landscape.

8575 00 1 CD $15.95   Mixed | Chorus | United States | Mixed Choir Christmas