A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Once in Royal David's City

  Henry John Gauntlett
  4:44
• 2
  Bidding Prayer

  [no artist]
  3:24
• 3
  Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen

  George Ratcliffe Woodward
  1:18
• 4
  The Truth From Above

  [traditional]
  2:30
• 5
  First Lesson: Genesis 3

  [no artist]
  2:19
• 6
  Adam lay ybounden

  Boris Ord
  1:09
• 7
  Second Lesson: Genesis 22

  [no artist]
  0:59
• 8
  Sussex Carol

  [traditional]
  1:46
• 9
  In the Bleak Mid-Winter

  Harold Edwin Darke
  4:26
• 10
  Third Lesson: Isaiah 9

  [no artist]
  1:01
• 11
  In dulci jubilo

  [traditional]
  3:15
• 12
  God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

  [traditional]
  3:35
• 13
  Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11

  [no artist]
  1:22
• 14
  A Tender Shoot

  Otto Goldschmidt
  1:47
• 15
  The Lamb

  John Tavener
  3:32
• 16
  Fifth Lesson: St. Luke 1

  [no artist]
  2:12
• 17
  Gabriel's Message

  [traditional]
  2:31
• 18
  Joys Seven

  [traditional]
  2:57
• 19
  Sixth Lesson: St. Luke 2

  [no artist]
  1:18
• 20
  Dormi, Jesu

  John Rutter
  4:29
• 21
  Riu, riu, chiu

  Mateo Flecha the Elder
  2:09
• CD 2
• 1
  Seventh Lesson: St. Luke 2

  [no artist]
  1:57
• 2
  The Fayrfax Carol

  Thomas Adès
  4:28
• 3
  While Shepherds Watched

  [traditional]
  2:53
• 4
  Eighth Lesson: St. Matthew 2

  [no artist]
  2:31
• 5
  I Saw Three Ships

  [traditional]
  1:35
• 6
  Illuminare, Jerusalem

  Judith Weir
  2:11
• 7
  Ninth Lesson: St. John 1

  [no artist]
  2:14
• 8
  O Come, All Ye Faithful

  [traditional]
  4:23
• 9
  Prayer and Blessing

  [no artist]
  1:06
• 10
  Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

  Felix Mendelssohn
  3:27
• 11
  In dulci jubilo, BWV 729

  Johann Sebastian Bach
  3:09

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3 Masses / Mass "The Western Wind"

3 Masses / Mass "The Western Wind" 1996

Magnificat

Magnificat 1988

Allegri: Miserere / Palestrina: Stabat Mater / Litaniae de Beata Virgine Maria

Allegri: Miserere / Palestrina: Stabat Mater / Litaniae de Beata Virgine Maria 1988

Holy, Holy, Holy

Holy, Holy, Holy 1986

25 Carols for Christmas

25 Carols for Christmas 2025

John Rutter: Visions

John Rutter: Visions 2024

Release credits

• Adrian Kelly
  tenor vocals [5]
• Alice Weeks
  spoken vocals [10]
• Benjamin Bayl
  organ [2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10-11, 1.1, 1.8-9, 1.12, 1.18, 1.20]
• Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  choir vocals [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8-9, 1.11-12, 1.14-15, 1.17-18, 1.20-21, 2.2-3, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.10]
• David Humphries
  spoken vocals [13]
• Edward Harries
  treble vocals [18]
• Edward Moore
  treble vocals [1.1, 2.5]
• Julian Perkins
  baritone vocals [21]
• Maurice MacSweeney
  spoken vocals [7]
• Revd Dr Emma Hebblethwaite
  spoken vocals [19]
• Revd Dr George Pattison
  spoken vocals [2]
• Richard Burridge
  spoken vocals [9]
• Stephen Cleobury
  arranger [15], conductor [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6, 1.8-9, 1.11-12, 1.14-15, 1.17, 1.17-18, 1.20-21, 2.2-3, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.10], other vocals [1.1, 2.3, 2.8, 2.10], spoken vocals [16]
• Thomas Bullard
  baritone vocals [9]
• Timothy Boarer
  spoken vocals [5]
• [unknown]
  spoken vocals [1, 4, 7]
• Show all credits (16)

Issues

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  A
  (Combined release view)
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  A
  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

  2x CD
  2 November 1999
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  A
  A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

  2x Digital Media
• A
  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols CD 2

  CD