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Thursday 21 December 2023

Gesu Bambino by Pietro Yon, Duet arrangement by Deux, Vocal Duo!



I'm very honoured to have Angela Malek as a reader of this blog. Angela is a wonderful singer and has recorded with Crystal Jarrell Johnson in 2019, a lovely Christmas album. I was to post about it then but something happened just before Christmas that year - a foul wind from Wuhan. Well, better late than never.

The recording includes some real gems among them, There is No Rose, which my choir will be singing before the Vigil Mass of the Nativity on the Lord, this Sunday, before Mass.

1. There is No Rose of Such Virtu, Trad./ arr. Deux

2. Veni, veni Emmanuel, Trad./ arr. Jerome Malek

3. Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, Trad. Gerald Self, recorder; Alison Fletcher, violin

4. Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 315, Heinrich Schütz

5. Laudamus Te, Gloria, Antonio Vivaldi, Alison Fletcher, violin

6. He Shall Feed His Flock/Come Unto Him, Messiah, G. F. Händel

7. Maria Wiegenlied, Max Reger

8. Ave Maria, Camille Saint-Saëns

9. Il est né le divin enfant, Trad./ arr. Gabriel Fauré/ Deux

10. Quand Dieu naquit a Noël, Trad./ arr. Claude Balbastre/J. Malek

11. Gesù bambino, Pietro Yon

There exquisite rendition of Pietro Yon's Jesu Bambino is below.

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2 comments:

P. O'Brien said...

Our choir to sing this beautiful hymn before Midnight Mass at the FSSP parish where I sang, in the days before the musical purists took over. Now it's Christmas and every Sunday with the Ukrainian Catholics.

Robert said...

I enjoyed listening to the singing of Ms. Malek and Ms. Johnson. May God bless their talent and the consolation they bring...a blessing in the traditional sense, not the ambivalent Fiducia Supplicans sense of blessing.