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Love came down at Christmas • Music by Eleanor Daley • Performed by The Gesualdo Six, directed by Owain Park • Filmed at St James Sussex Gardens, London

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This track comes from our second album, ‘Christmas’, a programme that reaches across the ages inspired by the mystery and joy of the festive season.

CD available online: https://bit.ly/G6Christmas
Download on iTunes: https://apple.co/2JdKL3Z

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About the music

Eleanor Daley’s beautiful setting of Love came down at Christmas was composed in 2004 for the Victoria Scholars of Toronto, Canada. The words are by Christina Rossetti, who published the poem without a title in Time Flies: A Reading Diary in 1885. A tenor soloist begins by setting out a largely scalic melody which is later developed over the course of the piece. The short interjections of ‘Alleluia’ tug the harmony in different directions, but the work persistently returns to its tonal centre, leaving a warm and comforting feeling. [Programme note: Owain Park © 2019]

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