The English Nativity Festival #1349
…choirs and organists share a bountiful repertoire drawn from many years of the British holiday tradition.
Hour 1
WILLIAM MATHIAS: Sir Christemas –City of London Choir/Hilary Davan Wetton, director; Mark Williams, organ. Naxos 8.572102
CARSON COOMAN: Adam lay ybounden –Choir or Rochester Cathedral/Scott Farrell, director; Roger Sayer (1989 Mander/Rochester Cathedral) Regent 379
SIR PHILIP LEDGER: 4 Carols (Adam lay ybounden; A spotless rose; Jesus Christ the apple tree; Good Christian men, rejoice) –Choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge/Philip Ledger and David Rowland, director; Roxanne Summerfield (1971 Mander/Jesus College, Cambridge) Regent 305
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: In dulci jubilo, Op. 75, no. 2 –Daniel Hyde (1968 Harrison/King’s College Chapel, Cambridge) Priory 884
JUDITH WEIR: Illuminare, Jerusalem. ROBIN HOLLOWAY: Christmas Carol. STEPHEN PAULUS: Pilgrim Jesus –Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, director; Ashley Grote and Tom Winpenny (1968 Harrison/King’s College Chapel, Cambridge) EMI Classics 58070
RODERICK ELMS: Wassail down the wind –Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Stephen Bell, conductor; Stuart Nicholson (1954 Harrison/Temple Church, London) Naxos 8.570793
Hour 2
EDWARD ELGAR: Carillon, Op. 75 –Huw Williams (1872 Willis-1972 Mander/St. Paul Cathedral, London) Priory 778
ALFRED HOLLINS: Christmas Cradle Song. JOHN GARDNER: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – Winchester Cathedral Choir/Andrew Lumsden, director; Simon Bell (1937-1988 Harrison/Winchester Cathedral) Regent 350
JOHN RUTTER: Dormi, Jesu –Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O’Donnell, conductor; Robert Quinney (1984 Harrison/Westminster Abbey, London) Hyperion 67716
WILLEM MUDDE: Variations on Eris een Kindeke geboren up ard –Andrew Armstrong (1911 Lewis/Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland) Priory 915
PAUL DRAYTON: The World’s Desire. DAVID BEDNALL: Noe, noe –Truro Cathedral Choir/Christopher Gray, director; Luke Bond (1887 Willis/Truro Cathedral) Regent 422
BASIL HARWOOD: Christmastide, Op. 34 –Adrian Partington (1909-1987 Nicholson/Birmingham Oratory) Priory 684
PHILIP STOPFORD: Come down, of love divine –Ecclesium Choir/Philip Stopford, director; Tim Noon (Keeble College Chapel, Oxford) Priory 832
WILLIAM MATHIAS: A babe is born –City of London Choir/Hilary Davan Wetton, director; Mark Williams, organ. Naxos 8.572102
