{"id":538,"date":"2013-12-13T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=538"},"modified":"2013-12-13T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:00:09","slug":"advent-calendar-day-13-the-crown-of-roses-tchaikovsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/13\/advent-calendar-day-13-the-crown-of-roses-tchaikovsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 13: The Crown of Roses (Tchaikovsky)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From one rose to another, and this is a very suitable rose for a Friday, since this carol for Advent has a bit of a Good Fridayish tinge to it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King&#039;s College Cambridge 2011 Easter 5 The Crown of Roses Tchaikovsky\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g9Y-Ud_ZqMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I first sang this in a school choir in Grade 6 or so, which means that it is embedded in my memory for life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Though I always thought it was for Easter until I kept on finding it in Christmas Carol anthologies.\u00a0 Then again, Lent and Advent have a similar (purple!) tinge, to my mind.\u00a0 (I also can&#8217;t help thinking whenever I hear this at Christmas that *of course* it&#8217;s a Russian composer who thinks about Christmas and goes straight to the crown of thorns imagery.)<\/p>\n<p>I particularly want to mention the choir in this recording, because their sound is really fantastic &#8211; very rich, and perfect for the lushness of Tchaikovsky&#8217;s harmonies. The choir of King&#8217;s College Cambridge is always excellent, but I think this particular recording is outstanding even for them. And the tenor section is in particularly beautiful voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From one rose to another, and this is a very suitable rose for a Friday, since this carol for Advent has a bit of a Good Fridayish tinge to it. I first sang this in a school choir in Grade 6 or so, which means that it is embedded in my memory for life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,116,427,594,688],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-choir-of-kings-college-cambridge","tag-legend","tag-pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky","tag-the-crown-of-roses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}