Christmas in Oxford
Early, Victorian and Modern Carols
(Traditional)
Magdalen College Choir - John Harper (Dir)
Label : Alto
Artikelnummer: ALC 1290
1 CD Spielzeit : 077:26
CHF 10.50
These two famous anthologies of carols from the earliest 15th to the 20th c. here include many popular ones but also many rare discoveries. Magdalen College, Oxford, played an important part in the Victorian revival of the celebration of Christmas and especially of carol singing. A key figure in this was J.R. Bloxam, Fellow of Magdalen, who first held a musical entertainment for the Magdalen choristers in his room in college on Christmas Eve in 1840 or 1841.