Steven Grahl / Choir Of Trinity College - Song For Snow [CD] [New CD]

The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Steven Grahl - Song for Snow. A thoughtful yet enchanting album of 20th- and 21st-century Christmas carols from the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and director Steven Grahl. Particularly welcome is an emphasis on contemporary women composers from across the choral world, including Florence Price, Sally Beamish, Elizabeth Poston, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Lucy Walker and Errollyn Wallen, whose music dovetails with that of John Rutter, Herbert Howells, Gustav Holst, Piers Connor Kennedy and Kenneth Leighton. Those newer carols sit among familiar old friends such as Stille Nacht, Carol of the Bells and In dulci jubilo. A modern folk classic is found in The truth from above, which Vaughan Williams transcribed directly from a melody sung to him by a local farmworker as he wandered the England looking for the nation's lost melodies. A similar story pertains to I wonder as I wander, which came to the world's attention via a collector of folk songs in the Appalachian mountains.