Carol for St. Steven
composer: Alexander Goehr
dedicatee: Erich Fried
for SATB choir
text from William Sandys' Christmas Carols, adapted by the composer
Dedication: For the choir of King's College, Cambride and in memory of Erich Fried
Premiere: December 24, 1989, King´s College Chapel
Instrumentation: mixed choir
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 4' 0''
Year of composition: 1989
Edition: choral score
Language: English
Series: Choral Music of Our Time
16 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2201-2651-2
Order number: ED 13017
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Description
Written in memory of Erich Fried (1921-1988), a writer who wrote the libretto for Goehr's opera Arden Must Die and whose poems were set in Warngedichte (op. 22), Carol for St Steven is short and playful carol about St Steven as a servant boy in King Herod’s Hall. Seeing the Star and realising that Jesus has been born, the boy tells King Herod who overreaction results in Steven being stoned to death (explaining why the Vigil of St Stephen takes place on Christmas Night). With a treble soloist singing the lines of Steven and a bass singing the parts of Herod, Goehr’s carol for St Steven is an alternative carol in many senses but one that would be ideal for both amateur and professional choirs looking for new repertoire.
Recordings
On Christmas Day - New Carols From King's (2005)
Alexander Goehr- Carol for St Steven
- Chilcott, Rodney Bennett, Bingham, Pärt, Harvey, Berkeley, Holloway, Dove, Rutter, Casken, Weir, Maxwell Davies, Sculthorpe, Swayne, MacMillan, Birtwistle, Burrell, Woolrich, Adès, Maw, Paulus
Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Stephen Cleobury
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