A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Once in Royal David’s City (from “Hymns and Carols of Christmas”)

  Henry John Gauntlett
  4:44
• 2
  Service, 1. Bidding Prayer

  [no artist]
  3:25
• 3
  Up! Good Christen Folk and Listen: “Ding‐dong, ding - Ding‐a‐dong‐a‐ding”

  George Ratcliffe Woodward
  1:16
• 4
  The Truth from Above: “This Is the Truth Sent from Above”

  [traditional]
  2:28
• 5
  Service, 2. First Lesson (Genesis 3)

  [no artist]
  2:20
• 6
  Adam Lay Ybounden

  Peter Warlock
  1:09
• 7
  Service, 3. Second Lesson (Genesis 22)

  [no artist]
  1:00
• 8
  Sussex Carol (Christmas Carol): “On Christmas night all Christians sing” (Arr. Philip Ledger)

  [traditional]
  1:47
• 9
  “In the bleak midwinter”, H.73 No. 1

  Harold Edwin Darke
  4:24
• 10
  Service, 4. Third Lesson (Isaiah 9)

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

  [traditional]
  3:14
• 12
  God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

  [traditional]
  3:35
• 13
  Service, 5. Fourth Lesson (Isaiah 11)

  [no artist]
  1:23
• 14
  A Tender Shoot: “A Tender Shoot Has Started up from a Root of Grace”

  Otto Goldschmidt
  1:46
• 15
  The Lamb

  John Tavener
  3:31
• 16
  Service, 6. Fifth Lesson (St. Luke 1)

  [no artist]
  2:13
• 17
  Gabriel’s Message

  [traditional]
  2:31
• 18
  The Seven Joys of Mary (from the Joshua Vaughan Himes’ “Millennial Harp”, 1842)

  [traditional]
  2:57
• 19
  Service, 7. Sixth Lesson (St. Luke 2)

  [no artist]
  1:19
• 20
  Dormi Jesu, “The Virgin’s Cradle Hymn”: “Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet”

  John Rutter
  4:27
• 21
  Cancionero de Uppsala: No. 46, “Riu, riu, chiu, la guarda ribera”

  Mateo Flecha
  2:00
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Service, 8. Seventh Lesson (St. Luke 2)

  [no artist]
  1:58
• 2
  The Fayrfax Carol

  Thomas Adès
  4:36
• 3
  While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Christmas Carol)

  [traditional]
  2:54
• 4
  Service, 9. Eighth Lesson (St Matthew 2)

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

  [traditional]
  1:36
• 6
  Illuminare, Jerusalem: “Jerusalem rejos for joy”

  Judith Weir
  2:12
• 7
  Service, 10. Ninth Lesson (St. John 1)

  [no artist]
  2:15
• 8
  O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)

  [traditional]
  4:24
• 9
  Service, 11. Prayer and Blessing

  [no artist]
  1:07
• 10
  Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (After Mendelssohn’s Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4)

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach
  3:09

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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

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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 [2.3, 2.8, 2.10, 1.1], 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