Cambridge Singers Christmas Album
 | By Stephen Varcoe, Stephen Orton, Adolphe Adam, Hector Berlioz, Benjamin Britten, George Frederick Handel, Kenneth Leighton Collegium, 2003, Audio CD |
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Christmas Never Sounded So Good!
For more than a decade, John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers have shared the Joy of Christmas with the world. The ethereal sound of perfectly blended voices, singing the most beautiful seasonal music ever composed never fails to touch the heart or lift the spirit. This year, John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers have assembled a NEW collection – compiled from the archives, including FOUR NEVER BEFORE RELEASED TRACKS! This is a holiday feast you will NOT want to miss!
- The holly and the ivy (arr. H. Walford Davies)*
- Blessed be that maid Mary (arr. David Willcocks)
- Somerset Wassail (arr. John Rutter)
- Shepherds, in the fields abiding (French, arr. Willcocks)*
- The Infant King (Basque, arr. Willcocks)
- What is this lovely fragrance? (French, arr. Healey Willan)
- Gabriel's message (Basque, arr. Willcocks)*
- Still, still, still (German, arr. Rutter)
- Quittez, pasteurs (French, arr. Rutter)
- Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle (French, arr. Rutter)
- Personent hodie (German, arr. Rutter)
- The shepherds' farewell (Hector Berlioz)
- O holy night (Adolphe Adam)
- O magnum mysterium (T. L. de Victoria)
- Hodie Christus natus est (J. P. Sweelinck)
- For unto us a child is born (G. F. Handel)
- In dulci jubilo (Samuel Scheidt)
- Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (Kenneth Leighton)*
- A New Year Carol (Benjamin Britten)
- Balulalow (Peter Warlock)
- I saw a fair maiden (Peter Warlock)
- The Lamb (John Tavener)
- Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Title: Cambridge Singers Christmas Album
Sales Rank: 4503 in Music
Creator: Stephen Varcoe, Stephen Orton, Adolphe Adam, Hector Berlioz, Benjamin Britten, George Frederick Handel, Kenneth Leighton, Samuel Scheidt, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, John Tavener, Christmas Traditional, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Peter Warlock, John Rutter, Rachel Masters, City of London Sinfonia, John Scott, Caroline Ashton, Karen Kerslake
Label: Collegium, 2003-10-07, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Package Dimensions: 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches, 0.18 pounds
- Gorgeous
- Looking for some last-minute Christmas music to download? You can't do much better than this album. Incidentally, you can listen to this gorgeous music at any time of the year. John Rutter is best known has the director of the Cambridge Singers and as a composer. The sound he gets out of the group is amazing. Rutter himself arranged many of the selections… More reviews
- Almost angelic
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- I have the utmost respect for John Rutter and his Cambridge Singers, probably the best choir in the world (at least, the English-speaking world). I have almost all their CDs. Two of their Christmas CDs are "desert-island" class for this listener.
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