Work of the Week - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Fleecy Care Carol
Since his appointment as Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas as a personal gift in addition to the various other works composed for royal occasions. This year is no different and on 12th December the Choir of the Palace Royal conducted by Andrew Gant will give the world premiere of Fleecy Care Carol at a private concert in the Chapel Royal.
Scored for SATB choir, the work is a short and simple setting of a traditional English folk poem:
As shepherds tend their fleecy care,
A heavenly angel does appear,
"Shepherds, attend, to you I bring
Glad tidings of a new-born King."
Fleecy Care Carol will be available to choirs around the world from Schott Music next spring and will join Max’s existing royal carols Lullay, My Child, And Weep No More, An Heavenly Song, Wonder Tidings, The Yule-tide Bell, Kings and Shepherds and Ave Plena Gracia. Each carol is unique and exquisitely written; individually or as a cycle they are fantastic additions to the carol repertoire and perfect for both amateur and professional choirs alike. Sample pages can be viewed on the Schott website to help you plan for Christmas 2011, when your choir could be performing new carols first heard in Buckingham Palace, composed by one of the most important composers of the 21st centaury.
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