A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service

Tracklist

• 1
  Once in Royal David's City

  Henry John Gauntlett desc. Stephen Cleobury
  4:21
• 2
  Bidding Prayer, Lord's Prayer and Blessing

  [anonymous]
  3:16
• 3
  Up! Good Christen Folk

  [traditional]
  1:20
• 4
  Reading: First Lesson (Genesis 3.8-15, 17-19)

  [anonymous]
  2:44
• 5
  Adam Lay Ybounden

  Boris Ord
  1:11
• 6
  Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

  Elizabeth Poston
  2:39
• 7
  Reading: Second Lesson (Genesis 22.15-18)

  [anonymous]
  1:02
• 8
  In dulci jubilo

  Robert Lucas Pearsall
  3:04
• 9
  I Saw Three Ships

  Simon Preston
  2:15
• 10
  Reading: Third Lesson (Isaiah 9.2, 6-7)

  [anonymous]
  1:08
• 11
  Nowell Sing We

  [traditional] ed. Stephen Cleobury
  3:07
• 12
  Unto Us is Born a Son

  [traditional] arr. Sir David Willcocks
  2:21
• 13
  Reading: Fourth Lesson (Isaiah 11.1-4a, 6-9)

  [anonymous]
  1:59
• 14
  A Spotless Rose

  Herbert Howells
  2:44
• 15
  The Lamb

  John Tavener
  3:07
• 16
  Reading: Fifth Lesson (Luke 1.26-35, 38)

  [anonymous]
  2:30
• 17
  Joys Seven

  [traditional] arr. Stephen Cleobury
  3:14
• 18
  Bogoróditse Dyevo

  Arvo Pärt
  1:15
• 19
  Reading: Sixth Lesson (Luke 2.1-7)

  [anonymous]
  1:01
• 20
  What Sweeter Music

  John Rutter
  4:09
• 21
  Stille Nacht

  Franz Xaver Gruber arr. Philip Ledger
  2:28
• 22
  Reading: Seventh Lesson (Luke 2.8-16)

  [anonymous]
  1:40
• 23
  In the Bleak Mid-Winter

  Harold Edwin Darke
  4:08
• 24
  While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night

  Christopher Tye desc. Stephen Cleobury
  2:53
• 25
  Reading: Eighth Lesson (Matthew 2.1-12)

  [anonymous]
  2:45
• 26
  O Mercy Divine

  Judith Weir
  3:56
• 27
  Sir Christémas

  William Mathias
  1:44
• 28
  Reading: Ninth Lesson (John 1.1-14)

  [anonymous]
  2:09
• 29
  O Come, All Ye Faithful

  John Francis Wade desc. Sir David Willcocks
  4:23
• 30
  Collect and Blessing

  [anonymous]
  1:05
• 31
  Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

  Felix Mendelssohn desc. Stephen Cleobury
  3:24
• 32
  In dulci jubilo, BWV 729

  Johann Sebastian Bach
  2:37

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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

25 Carols for Christmas 2025

John Rutter: Visions

John Rutter: Visions 2024

Release credits

• Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  choir vocals [1, 3, 5-6, 8-9, 11-12, 14-15, 17-18, 20-21, 23-24, 26-27, 29, 31]
• Henry Websdale
  organ [32]
• Stephen Cleobury
  conductor [1, 3, 5-6, 8-9, 11-12, 14-15, 17-18, 20-21, 23-24, 26-27, 29, 31]

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  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service

  Digital Media
  8 November 2019