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De Wexford Carol is een oorspronkelijk Iers religieus lied dat rond de Kerst uitgevoerd wordt. Eromheen is een nieuwe traditie ontstaan van soortgelijke liederen. Volume 1 zit ook in de map. Op beide albums spelen artiesten van naam mee.

O’Leary’s first volume of Wexford Carols, first released in 2014 and again two years later, was a joy to a world oversaturated with over-produced, over-played Christmas music. A scholar as well as singer, O’Leary has researched the Wexford caroling tradition, which derives from the poems of Luke Waddinge, a bishop in Co. Wexford during the 17th century, and the 1728 collection of Christmas songs by Fr. William Devereux. Blessed with a voice that is ethereal and crystalline yet not without sinew, she gave new life to these songs, with arrangements that blended Irish traditional music, early music and classical styles, and aided by quite the group of contributors, headlined by Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens and Tom Jones (as in “Yes, that Tom Jones”), along with Donal Lunny of Planxty and Bothy Band renown. It all made for a refreshingly sublime, graceful, and accessible mesh of folk and sacred music, with the feel of a global village Christmas celebration.

Volume II, “Strange Wonders,” is a smaller-scale but no less pleasing affair. If her collaborators don’t possess quite the star-power of those in Volume I, they are highly accomplished. The other vocalists are Clara Sanabas, also a stellar musician (she plays baroque guitar here) and with a portfolio that includes soundtracks for “The Hunger Games” and “The Hobbit”; Seth Lakeman (violin and viola), a stalwart of the UK folk scene for nearly three decades; Lakeman’s fellow Briton John Smith, one of the more intriguing guitarists in British Isles trad/contemporary folk; and, in a supporting role, the Stile Antico choir. The instrumental ensemble includes trumpet, bass clarinet, renaissance guitar, lute, percussion and even a nyckelharpa (played by Olov Johansson of groundbreaking Scandinavian trio Väsen and a past performer in “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn”).

“Strange Wonders” is more contemplative than its festive predecessor, as O’Leary explains in the sleeve notes: Where Volume I told the familiar narrative of Christmas, the carols for this album are “more meditations on the mystical and spiritually wondrous aspects of the story,” such as Gabriel’s Visitation to Mary and the Meeting of Herod and the Magi. Appropriately enough, the instrumentation and arrangements tend to be on the spare side, which centers attention more fully on the voices.
Caitriona O'Leary heeft er een aantal verzameld en voert ze op traditionele wijze uit. 

Tracks:
Volume 1:
01 - Tell Shepherds
02 - An Angel This Bright Morning
03 - Jerusalem Our Happy Home
04 - This Is Our Christmas Day
05 - Now to Conclude Our Christmas Mirth
06 - The Darkest Midnight in December
07 - An Angel This Bright Midnight
08 - Behould Three Kings
09 - The Angel Said to Joseph Mild
10 - A Virgin Queen in Bethlehem
11 - Christmas Day Is Come
12 - The Enniscorthy Christmas Carol

Volume 2 (Strange Wonders)
01 - Ye Sons of Men
02 - The Darkest Midnight in December
03 - This Great Mysterie (Aka This Christmas Day You Pray Me Sing)
04 - On Christmas Night All Christians Sing
05 - The Night of the Nativity
06 - St. Stephen Had an Angel's Face
07 - On St. Stephen's Day (Aka This Is St. Stephen's Day)
08 - A Carol for St. John's Day
09 - Hail Ye Flow'rs of Martyrs
10 - This Feast of St. Sylvester
11 - The Enniscorthy Christmas Carol

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_uuVUxMaMM