The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Douglas Tang, Tom Etheridge & Parker Ramsay organ
Directed by Stephen Cleobury
Released 3 November 2014
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‘Favourite Carols from King’s’ is a collection of the most popular carols featured in A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols over the years. Highlights include ‘Once in Royal David’s City’, with the opening verse sung by treble Adam Banwell, ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, solo performed by bass Hugo Herman-Wilson and ‘Hark! the herald angels sing’. It provides at once a survey of the King’s Christmas tradition and a snapshot of the choir as it is today.
Recording of the Month – Friends of Cathedral Music
**** – BBC Music Magazine
| 1 | Once in royal David’s city | 04:38 | Gauntlett, Henry John & Mann, Arthur Henry desc. Philip Ledger |
| 2 | Ding! Dong! merrily on high | 02:07 | XVI Century French arr. Charles Wood |
| 3 | Herefordshire Carol | 02:43 | English Trad arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| 4 | Adam lay ybounden | 01:08 | Ord, Boris |
| 5 | Sussex Carol | 02:00 | English Trad arr. Philip Ledger |
| 6 | In dulci jubilo | 03:28 | Anon arr. Robert Lucas de Pearsal ed. Reginald Jacques |
| 7 | Joy to the world | 03:00 | Holford, William arr. Hugh Keyte & Andrew Parrott |
| 8 | Gabriel’s message | 02:40 | Basque Trad arr. Edgar Pettman |
| 9 | The holly and the ivy | 02:48 | French Trad arr. Henry Walford Davies |
| 10 | O little town of Bethlehem | 03:33 | English Trad arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams desc. Thomas Armstrong |
| 11 | A spotless Rose | 03:17 | Howells, Herbert |
| 12 | The shepherd’s Carol | 03:09 | Chilcott, Bob |
| 13 | Angels from the realms of glory | 03:43 | French Trad arr. Reginald Jacques |
| 14 | Silent night | 03:40 | Gruber, Franz arr. Stephen Cleobury |
| 15 | It came upon the midnight clear | 03:24 | English Trad arr. Arthur Sullivan desc. Stephen Cleobury |
| 16 | In the bleak midwinter | 04:32 | Darke, Harold |
| 17 | I saw three ships | 02:06 | English Trad arr. Simon Preston |
| 18 | While shepherds watched their flocks | 02:44 | Este’s Psalter desc. Stephen Cleobury |
| 19 | The three kings | 02:17 | Cornelius, Peter arr. Ivor Atkins |
| 20 | Coventry Carol | 02:50 | XV Century Anon |
| 21 | God rest you merry, gentlemen | 03:41 | English Trad arr. David Willcocks |
| 22 | Away in a manger | 02:29 | Kirkpatrick, William arr. David Willcocks |
| 23 | All bells in paradise | 04:34 | Rutter, John |
| 24 | Hark! the herald angels sing | 03:11 | Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix desc. Stephen Cleobury |
| 25 | O come, all ye faithful | 04:29 | Wade, John Francis arr. David Willcocks |
| Total playing time – 78:11 |
Recorded at 96kHz 24-bit PCM stereo in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, by kind permission of the Provost and Fellows, 16, 17, 18 & 20 March 2014.
Producer & Editor Simon Kiln
Recording Engineer Arne Akselberg
Mixing Engineer Arne Akselberg
Technical Engineer Richard Hale
CD Mastering Engineer Simon Gibson