Once in royal David's city (processional hymn) / H.J. Gauntlett (4:25) -- Bidding prayer/The Lord's prayer/Blessing (4:01) -- If ye would hear the angels sing / P. Tranchell (2:36) -- First lesson : Genesis 3 (3:15) -- Remember, O thou man / T. Ravenscroft (2:07) -- Adam lay ybounden / B. Ord (1:13) -- Second lesson : Genesis 22 (1:13) -- Angels from the realms of glory / French traditional ; arr. P.S. Ledger (2:43) -- Canticum Beatae Mariae Virginis seu Magnificat (Hamburg, 1602) : In dulci jubilo / H. Praetorius (2:38) -- Third lesson : Isaiah 9 (1:28) -- Nowell sing ye now / medieval ; ed. J. Stevens (2:53) -- Unto us is born a Son / Piae Cantiones ; arr. D.V. Willcocks (2:20) -- Fourth lesson : Isaiah 11 (1:49) -- The Lamb / J. Tavener (3:24) -- A spotless rose / H. Howells (3:02) -- Fifth lesson : St. Luke 1 (2:54) -- I sing of a maiden / L. Berkeley (2:33) -- Mary / D. Muldowney (4:25) -- Sixth lesson : St. Luke 2 (1:28) -- Wither's rocking hymn / R. Vaughan Williams (4:18) -- What sweeter music / J. Rutter (4:30) -- Seventh lesson : St. Luke 2 (1:57) -- Infant holy, infant lowly / Polish traditional ; arr. S.J. Cleobury (2:12) -- God rest ye merry gentlemen / English traditional ; arr. D.V. Willcocks (3:54) -- Eighth lesson : St. Matthew 2 (3:03) -- Illuminare Jerusalem / J. Weir (2:16) -- Glory, alleluia to the Christ Child! / A. Bullard (2:18) -- Ninth lesson : St. John 1 (2:40) -- O come, all ye faithful / J.F. Wade ; arr. S.J. Cleobury (4:42) -- Prayer & blessing (1:17) -- Hark! the herald-angels sing / F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (3:24) -- In dulci jubilo : BWV 729 / J.S. Bach (2:39).
Language (note)
Sung in English, Middle English, Latin, Middle High German, and Scots; spoken in English.
Title
A festival of nine lessons & carols.
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : Warner Classics - Parlophone, [2009]
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Peter Stevens, organ ; Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; Stephen Cleobury, conductor.
Event
Recorded 2008 December 24 Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
Language
Sung in English, Middle English, Latin, Middle High German, and Scots; spoken in English.