King's College Cambridge 2008 #11 Hodie James Whitbourn

http://spiritdei.blogspot.com King's College Cambridge 2008 Hodie by James Whitbourn. Hodie Latin for Today or Now was written in 1999 by James Whitbourn who was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a choral scholar. Now established as a composer for concert hall and screen, he began his career as a programme maker at the BBC, producing many award-winning programmes. His close association with the BBC Philharmonic resulted in three large-scale commissions for voices and orchestra. His Son of God Mass has had many performances worldwide, especially in the USA and Europe. Television credits include music for the BBCs coverage of the Queen Mothers funeral, and major BBC series ´Son of God´. In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his oratorio Annelies, based on the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim. He has written a number of works for the British tenor Robert Tear, with whom he has also collaborated as librettist, including a festal setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for King's College Cambridge and a cantata for the St Endellion Festival. Other vocal works include a set of songs commissioned by the BBC for the mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins. From 2006-2008 his compositions have been performed annually in concerts devoted to his music at Westminster Choir College, Rider University, New Jersey.

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[viewfromwilmington]

Another gem from 2008. I am very impressed with the solo chorister's purity of sound.

[alto7053]

The opening is:

Hodie Christus natus est, the holy child is born

In his love man's hope does rest on this eternal morn

[JohnBrookMusic]

@cherrybroadhurst2

no paedo...

[picardythirds]

search for Hodie on google. It is an old english text and so us in the modern age find it hard to understand. It's mixed up with latin and all sorts of other things!

[AnyConde]

Yeah! I didn't understand too!

[studentinberlin]

Hodie, Hodie, Christus natus est. The Holy Child is born.

This is the first, the second, i don´t understand the word.

[AnyConde]

Do you understand what the soprano boy sang in the beginning of the song? Can anyone tell me?

[studentinberlin]

the left man on 2:28, was he a member from Westminster Abbey Choir? he looks like the same singer from the Westminster Abbey Choir. is he now at kings?

[choirboy526]

how?

[cherrybroadhurst2]

I know most of the younger boys in the video!