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Carols from King's (2005) Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge

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Carols from King's (2005) Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Carols from King's (2005)
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Part of the BBC Christmas season, Carols from King's is televised annually on the 24th December, and features the famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, directed by Stephen Cleobury, singing a selection of traditional Christmas carols.

Carols from King's (2005) Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Carols from King's (2005) Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge


This is how Christmas carols should be done - with a highly skilled cathedral choir of boys and men, in the wonderful acoustics of the King's College Chapel. If you aren't the patient type, I have put the time stamps on the most famous carols, so you can skip to them easily.

Sequence of Events:
1. Carol - Once in Royal David's City
2. Introduction by Rev'd Ian Thompson, Dean
3. Carol - Sussex Carol (arr. Ledger)
4. Lesson - Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, Provost (Isaiah 9: 2, 6-7)
5. Carol - In Dulci Jubilo (arr. Pearsall)
6. Carol - Nowell (Medieval)
7. Lesson - Natalie Higgins, Undergraduate (Luke 1: 26-38)
8. Carol - Gabriel's Message (Old Basque)
9. Hymn - O Little Town of Bethlehem
10. Lesson - Anna Wilson, Undergraduate (The Advent Song, Sister Mary Francis)
11. Carol - What Sweeter Music (Rutter) [28:31]
12. Carol - Joys Seven (arr. Cleobury)
13. Lesson - Ryan Day, Undergraduate (Luke 2: 8-16, 20)
14. Carol - Infant Holy (arr. Cleobury)
15. Hymn - God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Willcocks)
16. Lesson - Joe Philip, Undergraduate (from 'A Hymn of the Nativity', Richard Crashaw)
17. Carol - In the Bleak Midwinter (Holst) [46:22]
18. Carol - Alleluya, A New Work (Wishart)
19. Lesson - The Rev'd Richard Lloyd Morgan, Chaplain (God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins)
20. Carol - O Holy Night (Adam) [54:48]
21. Carol - Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Gardner)
22. Lesson - The Rev'd Ian Thompson, Dean (John 1: 1-14)
23. Carol - O Magnum Mysterium (de Victoria)
24. Prayer
25. Hymn - Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!

You may recognise some of the words of the lessons - you can hear them sung in Handel's Messiah. :-)



Carols from King's (2005) Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge