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And Glory Shone Around: Early American Carols

The Rose Ensemble (Artist), Various (Composer), Jordan Sramek (Conductor) Format: Audio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars 14 customer reviews
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. Harps of Welcome
  2. Give Good Gifts
  3. Jordan s Shore
  4. Pretty Home
  5. Cold Frosty Morning
  6. Still Water
  7. Sherburne
  8. Wayfaring Stranger
  9. Improvisation
  10. Bozrah
  11. The Babe of Bethlehem
  12. The Babe of Bethlehem (instr.)
  13. Herald Angels
  14. Judea
  15. Peace and Joy
  16. Drive the Cold Winter Away
  17. Shiloh
  18. John Come Kiss Me Now
  19. The Old Angels Hymn/ St. Lukes Tune/ Kimbolton Tune
  20. Scotch Cap / Juice of Barley
  21. Morning Dawn
  22. Star in the East
  23. Jesus the Light of the World
  24. Christ the Apple-tree

Product Details

  • Conductor: Jordan Sramek
  • Composer: Various
  • Audio CD (December 24, 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rose Records
  • ASIN: B001OFG1OY
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,975 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Real Gem
By Charles Richards on December 23, 2013
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Early American hymnody, Shaker, and shape note music has always fascinated and moved me, mainly for its exquisite simplicity. This album, which compares favorably to any I've heard before, is nothing but pure delight from beginning to end. In 1995, Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata released a magnificent CD called "An American Christmas" which instantly became one of my favorite recordings of all time; some of the material which appeared on that CD appears on this one, but performed with the same gentility and delicacy while managing not to be the least bit imitative of the earlier recording. Not only is the singing on this CD gorgeous, but the liner notes are also fascinating and informative, providing a great deal of information on what was happening musically in Colonial America in the 18th and early 19th centuries. I knew that The Rose Ensemble had become one of the most admired of choirs specializing in early music and I can see why after hearing them - their voices blend perfectly and they have a real knack for performing this music in an authentic matter that truly brings home what makes early American hymnody, Shaker and shape note music so uniquely different from anything that was being written in the Western world at that time. A very special experience and a real treat, I can recommend this recording with no reservations. If this sort of thing interests you, then you will not be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExquisite
By Flamingo on October 15, 2009
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A wonderful collection of songs. The superb vocals here flow like honey. These were arranged with care, sung with love. This is an outstanding group and an outstanding CD. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsInstantly shot to my top five Christmas albums
By R. J. Tuggy on January 30, 2014
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I stumbled across this recording through YouTube, and after hearing only two of the tracks knew it would be a perfect stocking-stuffer for my husband. We listen to a wide variety of music (my other favorite Christmas albums include Sting's "If On A Winter's Night" and Michael W. Smith's "Christmas" as well as The Nutcracker, soooooo...), but have been getting involved in the Sacred Harp shaped-note singing community over the past couple of years, and really love the hearty early-American sound. This album is *excellent.* Really skilled singers, but skilled in this style, not inappropriately operatic or thin-voiced. It's just gorgeous music, and not so Christmassy that you can't enjoy it occasionally during the rest of the year! This is the best purchase I've made in months.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful CD -- no "borrowings" I can hear
By Sidney on December 23, 2013
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Looking for just the right Christmas music this year, I found at the library
"And Glory Shown Around" and it has really made my musical Christmas;
I plan to order a CD for myself so I can listen anytime. I decided to write a
review to balance Joel Cohen's assertion of "borrowings," which seemed on the
face of it rather mean-spirited when only five songs (out of 24) are involved. He alleges the arrangements for these four songs were "borrowed" by the Rose Ensemble from Boston Camerata's 1990 CD "An American Christmas" (1990). (Cohen says that the Rose Ensemble gives credit for one song, so that we are talking about 4 songs out of 24 that he is upset about.) Through Amazon, I have compared samples of the songs in question from Boston Camerata's CD "American Christmas" and the Rose Ensemble's "And Glory Shown Round" and the arrangements seem quite different to me. This is especially true with "Jesus the Light of the World" which is (to my ears) dramatically different from the B.C. version and (again to my ears) the Rose Ensemble's version is far more beautiful. In fact, though I am no musician, the tempo for many of Boston Camarta's arrangements seems too fast. "Trav'ling Home" is a Boston Camerata CD that means a great deal to me, and they are a fine group. But I think the Rose Ensemble's "And Glory Shown Around" CD is quite extraordinary, and I invite others to make the same comparison I did.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful album for Christmas or any other time!
By P. Blair on July 24, 2011
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I fell in love with this album last Christmas when the Rose Ensemble appeared on Performance Today on Minnesota Public Radio and I just knew I had to have a copy. The tracks are all from roughly the time period of Colonial days through late 1800s, and cover a wide range of genres from "shape note" and Shaker hymns to transplanted English melodies to Native America flute work. The songs all have a kind of earthiness to them and freshness that makes me feel as if I'm somehow listening in on Christmas celebrations that our ancestors would have been having in their homes and churches in days gone by.
I'm writing this in July and still am listening to the selections from the album, so anyone who loves early music would probably like this album as well as I do, not just for Christmas but for the rest of the year as well.
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2.0 out of 5 starsToo many borrowings from other folks' recordings
By Trobador on February 7, 2010
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It's an open secret, I guess, that "early music" groups, dealing in repertoires where many aspects of performance were never written down, tend to listen to each others' concerts and recordings, and to adapt ideas, sometimes with an appropriate "thank you," but must often in a semi-surreptitious manner. These borrowings/imitations, among other practices tends to give the whole field a closed-in, self-referential cast. But whatever.

In this case, however, the borrowings are so frequent and detailed, and the general lack of acknowledgement so blatant, that an indignant comment is in order.

This well produced and capably performed program, by the Rose Ensemble, is nonetheless blemished. It "lifts" a number of works from an earlier recording by The Boston Camerata, "An American Christmas." The duplication goes way beyond performing the same pieces that the Camerata chose to do. After all, the music is public domain, and anyone can perform a 150 year old song without owing royalties to a composer.

The cribbings in this case go much farther than duplication of repertoire. What has been lifted from the Boston Camerata performances are basic concepts and arrangements, including matters such as vocal colors, voicings, added instrumentation, repeats and instrumental tags, and even additional lyrics not present in the original source.

For instance: the little Shaker song, "Pretty Home," contains one lyric and two short phrases. The Boston Camerata performance begins with a footstomping beat, and sets up a call-and-response pattern between a deep-voiced female soloist and a group of femaile ripienists.

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4.0 out of 5 starsI really do like some of these renditions

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A lovely variety of traditional American music--mostly hymns. Everyone in our family loves this cd. We are playing it during Advent, but it would be appropriate year-round. Read more

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The music is great -- the download system needs a LOT of work. I ended up with a number of extra albums I had purchased as CDs being downloaded w/o my permission, doubling them in... Read more

Published 8 months ago by UCCpastorinMass
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent ensemble.

High quality singing and playing. Excellent ensemble.

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Glory shines through here indeed

This is one of the best albums out there of early folk music - hymns, carols, and country dances. Tremendous care obviously went into this production. Read more

Published 13 months ago by Jan Klaar
3.0 out of 5 starsThree of the tracks skip or have artifacts.

I'm sure the physical CD would be fine, but the download copy that I got had problems on "And Glory Shone Around" and to a much lesser extent "The Apple tree" and... Read more

Published 14 months ago by John Huxman
5.0 out of 5 starsMelodious harmonies, new-to-me songs

Delightful set of Christmas carols and lovely singing. I especially enjoyed a number of new Christmas songs--it's difficult to find those!

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