The Crowning Of The Year

The Crowning Of The Year

The Crowning Of The Year

Track Listings
 
1. Welcome Yule
2. People Look East
3. Veni Immanuel
4. The Cherry Tree Carol
5. I Wonder As I Wander
6. Balletti a Cinque Voci
7. In The Bleak Midwinter
8. Wondrous Love
9. Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella/Ding Dong Merrily On High
10. Still, Still, Still/Child Of My Heart
11. Coventry Carol
12. Candlemas Eve
13. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
14. Auld Lang Syne

Editorial Reviews
The Washington Post (Washington, DC)
Dulcimer standout MacNeil and some tasteful acoustic accomplices...pure, clear vocals...

Product Description
This CD captures the spirit of the days surround Advent, Christmas and the New Year. Songs and instrumentals with hammered and fretted dulcimers, guitar, cello, and flute join the voice to create a unique celebration of the wonder and joy of the crowning days of the year. Madeline sings and plays hammered and fretted dulcimers and is joined by guest artists: Seth Austen (guitar), Ralph Gordon (cello), Janita Baker (fretted dulcimer), Karen Ashbrook (hammered dulcimer), Nicholas Blanton (hammered dulcimer), Frances Lapp Averitt (flute), Melissa Dunning (voice), Robert Francis Calabrese (voice), and Christopher Gatesman (voice).

The Crowning Of The Year

The Crowning Of The Year,Madeline MacNeil
The Crowning Of The Year
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • 'In the Bleak Midwinter Long Ago...'-Christina Rossetti
 The Crowning Of The Year

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004S9BF
Release Date: 1996-10-01

Tracks:

  1. Welcome Yule
  2. People Look East
  3. Veni Immanuel
  4. The Cherry Tree Carol
  5. I Wonder As I Wander
  6. Balletti a Cinque Voci
  7. In The Bleak Midwinter
  8. Wondrous Love
  9. Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella/Ding Dong Merrily On High
  10. Still, Still, Still/Child Of My Heart
  11. Coventry Carol
  12. Candlemas Eve
  13. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
  14. Auld Lang Syne

Album Description

This CD captures the spirit of the days surround Advent, Christmas and the New Year. Songs and instrumentals with hammered and fretted dulcimers, guitar, cello, and flute join the voice to create a unique celebration of the wonder and joy of the crowning days of the year. Madeline sings and plays hammered and fretted dulcimers and is joined by guest artists: Seth Austen (guitar), Ralph Gordon (cello), Janita Baker (fretted dulcimer), Karen Ashbrook (hammered dulcimer), Nicholas Blanton (hammered dulcimer), Frances Lapp Averitt (flute), Melissa Dunning (voice), Robert Francis Calabrese (voice), and Christopher Gatesman (voice).

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars 'In the Bleak Midwinter Long Ago...'-Christina Rossetti.......2004-10-16

The Crowning of the year is my all time favorite Christmas album! I bought it as a cassette on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Appalachians of Virginia. I love folk music, so I asked for a recommendation from someone in a music store for some local artists. He highly recommended Madeline MacNeil. I love her voice, clear as crystal, love her collection of songs, love how they are arranged, love the sound of the dulcimers. I love all the songs on it. My favorites are "People Look East", "Cherry Tree", and Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter". The lyrics of those songs, to me, best describe what I love about the Christmas story of Jesus' birth: 'People look east, the time is near for the crowning of the year...People look east, and sing today, Love, the Star, is on the way', 'Our God, heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign. In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed, The Lord God Incarnate, Jesus Christ...What can I give Him, poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb; If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part; Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.'

Most people don't see how Jesus' family was dysfunctional; the miracle of his birth DOES overshadow the pathos that this event placed upon Joseph and Mary initially. (Explaining the circumstances of Jesus' strange, yet miraculous birth and the trinity, God being three in one-father, son, and Holy Spirit-is not easy; it makes no sense to people of other faiths!) Imagine a virgin giving birth, how painful? A devout man considers divorce having been upstaged by God himself! In "Cherry Tree", Joseph angrily cries to Mary who is asking him to get cherries for her because she is 'with Child': 'Let the Father of the baby gather cherries for thee!' Jesus somehow saves the day by commanding the tree: 'bow low down cherry tree'. I also love some of the traditional lullabies that she sings, like "Still, Still, Still" and "Child o' my heart". I recommend this too!!!

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