Nine Lessons & Carols Stephen Cleobury and Choir of King's College, Cambridge

• Henry John Gauntlett, Arthur Henry Mann:
• 1 Hymn: Once in Royal David's City 04:40
• Anonymous
• 2 Bidding Prayer, Lord's Prayer and Blessing 03:26
• English traditional
• 3 Herefordshire Carol 02:34
• Anonymous
• 4 First Lesson 03:03
• Boris Ord
• 5 Adam Lay Ybounden 01:04
• English traditional
• 6 A Virgin Most Pure 02:54
• Anonymous
• 7 Second Lesson 01:03
• Traditional, German Traditional
• 8 In Dulci Jubilo 03:04
• Peter Tranchell
• 9 If Ye Would Hear the Angels Sing 02:25
• Anonymous
• 10 Third Lesson 01:08
• English traditional
• 11 Sussex Carol 01:58
• English traditional
• 12 Hymn: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen 03:33
• Anonymous
• 13 Fourth Lesson 01:40
• Otto Goldschmidt
• 14 A Tender Shoot 01:41
• Michael Praetorius
• 15 Det Är En Ros Utsprungen 03:59
• Anonymous
• 16 Fifth Lesson 02:44
• Pierre Villette
• 17 Hymne à la Vierge 03:20
• Peter Hurford
• 18 Sunny Bank 01:41
• Anonymous
• 19 Sixth Lesson 01:15
• Max Reger
• 20 Mariä Wiegenlied 01:59
• French Traditional
• 21 The Holly and the Ivy 03:08
• Anonymous
• 22 Seventh Lesson 01:44
• Este's Psalter
• 23 Hymn: While Shepherds Watched 02:59
• Judith Weir
• 24 Illuminare, Jerusalem 02:19
• Anonymous
• 25 Eighth Lesson 03:04
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
• 26 Christmas Carol 04:54
• XVI Century French
• 27 Ding! Dong! Merrily On High 02:45
• Anonymous
• 28 Ninth Lesson 02:28
• John Francis Wade
• 29 Hymn: O come, All Ye Faithful 04:27
• Anonymous
• 30 Collect and Blessing 01:15
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
• 31 Hymn: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 03:20
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• 32 Organ Voluntary: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 02:51
• Gabriel Jackson
• 33 The Christ Child 04:40
• Brett Dean
• 34 Now Comes the Dawn 03:34
• Mark-Anthony Turnage
• 35 Misere' Nobis 02:44
• Dominic Muldowney
• 36 Mary 04:28
• Jessica Davies
• 37 Christmas Eve 06:00
• John Rutter
• 38 All Bells in Paradise 04:44
• Total Runtime 01:50:35

Info for Nine Lessons & Carols

With a TV and radio audience of millions, the annual broadcast of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge is an essential Christmas tradition for families all over the world.

This double album faithfully recreates the magic of the service, opening with a lone treble singing ‘Once in royal David’s city’ and closing with a rousing chorus of ‘Hark! the herald angels sing’.

Each year the Director of Music at King’s, Stephen Cleobury, commissions a new carol. Several of these are included on the album, including carols by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Gabriel Jackson, Brett Dean, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Dominic Muldowney and Tansy Davies. In addition, John Rutter has written the new carol ‘All Bells in Paradise’ especially for this album.

The album reached #2 on the UK’s specialist classical chart in December 2012.

Ben-San Lau, organ
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

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Booklet for Nine Lessons & Carols