A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

King's College Choir, Stephen Cleobury - A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
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Artist: King's College Choir, Stephen Cleobury
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-11-02
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Once in Royal David's City
  2. The Bidding Prayer
  3. Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen (Piae cantiones)
  4. The Truth From Above
  5. First Lesson - Genesis 3:8-15
  6. Adam Lay Y-Bounden, carol
  7. Second Lesson - Genesis 22:15-18
  8. Sussex Carol ('On Christmas Night')
  9. In the Bleak Midwinter
  10. Third Lesson - Isaiah 9:2-7
  11. In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
  12. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
  13. Fourth Lesson - Isaiah 11:1-9
  14. A Tender Shoot, for chorus
  15. The Lamb, for chorus
  16. Fifth Lesson - St. Luke 1:26-38
  17. Gabriel's Message (Basque)
  18. Joys Seven (Joshua Himes's Millennial Harp, 1842)
  19. Sixth Lesson - St. Luke 2:1-7
  20. Dormi Jesu (The Virgin's Cradle Hymn)
  21. Riu, riu, chiu!, carol (Spanish)
Music CD 2
  1. Seventh Lesson - St. Luke 2:8-16
  2. The Fayrfax Carol, for chorus (& organ)
  3. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
  4. Eighth Lesson - St. Matthew 2:1-11
  5. I Saw Three Ships
  6. Illuminare, Jerusalem, carol
  7. Ninth Lesson - St. John 1:1-14
  8. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
  9. Blessing
  10. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival)
  11. In dulci jubilo (II), chorale prelude for organ, BWV 729 (BC K115)
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Poster

This disc could be more succinctly titled Christmas for Anglophiles. Few sounds are more British than the boy soprano-dominated Choir of King's College in Cambridge. And the group is heard--in some sections recorded live--in an actual Christmastide service amid the generous reverberation of a cathedral acoustic with little more than a tasteful though austere organ accompaniment. The repertoire isn't just conservative, traditional hymns and carols. One is harmonized by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and there are a number of contributions by contemporary composers Thomas Adès, Judith Weir, and John Tavener, all of which are probing, sincere, even personal examples of their art (and some are daringly liberated, harmonically speaking). The downside for some listeners--at least on repeated hearings--is that the entire service is heard, sermons and all. Others may take this in the spirit of a Paul McCreesh liturgical reconstruction, with congregational singing included. --David Patrick Stearns

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