Essential Carols: The Very Best of King's College Choir, Cambridge

Essential Carols: The Very Best of King's College Choir, Cambridge

by King's College Choir of Cambridge
Essential Carols: The Very Best of King's College Choir, Cambridge

Essential Carols: The Very Best of King's College Choir, Cambridge

by King's College Choir of Cambridge

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Product Details

Release Date: 10/11/2005
Label: London/Decca
UPC: 0028947570042
Rank: 42707

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival)
  2. The First Nowell (English)
  3. While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Tune: Winchester)
  4. I Saw Three Ships
  5. Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)
  6. King Jesus Hath A Garden (Dutch)
  7. In dulci jubilo (Pi¿¿ Cantiones)
  8. Unto Us Is Born A Son (Puer nobis nascitur; Piae Cantiones, 1582)
  9. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
  10. Away in a manger (Tune: Cradle Song) (New English Hymnal 22)
  11. O Little Town of Bethlehem
  12. The Holly and the Ivy (English)
  13. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
  14. See Amid the Winter's Snow, for chorus
  15. Past Three O'clock, carol (English)
  16. Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), in six parts, BWV 248 (BC D7)~Invitatory
  17. Adam Lay Y-Bounden, carol
  18. Gabriel's Message (Basque)

Disc 2

  1. Once in Royal David's City
  2. Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night")
  3. Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep
  4. Rejoice and Be Merry
  5. The Cherry Tree Carol
  6. The Three Kings
  7. As With Gladness, Men of Old
  8. A Great and Mighty Wonder
  9. The infant King (Basque)
  10. Balulalow, for voice & piano
  11. Legend (When Jesus Christ was but a child), song for voice & piano or orchestra (16 Children's Songs), Op. 54/5
  12. Christ was born on Christmas day (German)
  13. Blessed Be That Maid Marie (English)
  14. Lute Book Lullaby ("Sweet was the song the Virgin sung")
  15. Myn Lyking
  16. Personent Hodie (On this day Earth shall ring) (Piae Cantiones)
  17. In the Bleak Midwinter
  18. Coventry Carol (2): "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"
  19. Shepherds, In the field abiding (Tune: French)
  20. Torches
  21. Fantasia on Christmas Carols for baritone, chorus & orchestra

Album Credits

Performance Credits

King's College Choir of Cambridge   Primary Artist,Choir/Chorus
David Willcocks   Conductor
Andrew Davis   Organ
Simon Preston   Organ
London Symphony Orchestra   Orchestra
Hervey Alan   Bass Baritone

Technical Credits

David Willcocks   Arranger
Charles Wood   Arranger
Richard Runciman Terry   Arranger
Sabine Baring-Gould   Arranger,Text
Ralph Vaughan Williams   Arranger,Composer
Robert Shaw   Arranger
Wood   Arranger
Edgar Pettman   Arranger
George Ratcliffe Woodward   Arranger,Text,Translation
Atkins   Arranger
Cecil Frances Alexander   Text,Composer
John Mason Neale   Translation
Edward Caswell   Text
John B. Trend   Translation,Text Translation
Alan Novelli   Artwork
Nahum Tate   Text
Christian Friedrich Henrici   Text
Wedderburn   Text
Dearmer   Translation,Text Translation
Jeremy Tilston   Design,Art Direction
Henry John Gauntlett   Composer
Christina Rossetti   Text
St. Germanus   Text
Mann   Harmonic Arrangement
Anonymous, Piae Cantiones   Text
F. Oakley   Text
Aleksey Nikolayevich Plesheyev   Text
Peter Cornelius   Composer
H.N. Bate   Text Translation,Translation
Fabian Watkinson   Booklet Editor
Clifton Mann   Composer
William Chatterton Dix   Text
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Felix Mendelssohn   Composer
Charles Wesley   Text,Composer
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