Christmas Night

Description

The theme of this album is the birth of Christ, reflected in the words and music of twenty-two carols spanning more than six centuries.  Some of these carols have long been widely known and loved; others have become so thanks to the annual Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge.  But all of them focus on the central event of the Christmas story – the birth at Bethlehem – and on the characters in that story: the angels, the shepherds, the wise men, and the mother with her child.  Among the many original works on the disc are Rutter’s own There is a Flower and Nativity Carol.

Track list

1. In Dulci Jubilo
2. Adam lay Ybounden (Ord)
3. Christmas Night
4. Once, as I Remember
5. A spotless Rose
6. In the bleak mid-winter (Darke)
7. There is a flower
8. The Cherry Tree Carol
9. I wonder as I wander
10. Candlelight carol
11. O Tannenbaum
12. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Willcocks)
13. A virgin most pure
14. I sing of a maiden
15. Lute-book lullaby
16. The three kings
17. Myn lyking
18. O little one sweet
19. All my heart this night rejoices
20. I saw a maiden
21. Away in a manger
22. Nativity carol