Cambridge Singers Christmas Album (CD)

Two major works by John Rutter, form this album - Visions. Featuring Rutter's most recent piece, scored for solo violin, string ensemble and choristers, Visions was written for a past winner of the Menuhin Competition, Kerson Leong. The four movement piece is based around the vision of the holy city of Jerusalem, weaving in biblical texts which express different aspects of the vision. Requiem, one of John Rutter's most well-known and widely-performed pieces, was originally recorded by John Rutter in the 80s. Rutter felt it would be interesting to give a new generation of the Cambridge Singers (most of whom were not born at the time of the original recording) an opportunity to see what they could do with what is now a familiar choral work.

Track List

1. The Holly and the Ivy (Arr. H. Walford Davies)*
2. Blessed Be That Maid Mary (Arr. David Willcocks)
3. Somerset Wassail (Arr. John Rutter)
4. Shepherds in the Fields Abiding (French Arr. Willcocks)*
5. The Infant King (Basque Arr. Willcocks)
6. What Is This Lovely Fragrance? (French Arr. Healey Willan)
7. Gabriel's Message (Basque Arr. Willcocks)*
8. Still Still Still (German Arr. Rutter)
9. Quittez Pasteurs (French Arr. Rutter)
10. Un Flambeau Jeannette Isabelle (French Arr. Rutter)
11. Personent Hodie (German Arr. Rutter)
12. The Shepherds' Farewell (Hector Berlioz)
13. O Holy Night (Adolphe Adam)
14. O Magnum Mysterium (T. L. de Victoria)
15. Hodie Christus Natus Est (J. P. Sweelinck)
16. For Unto Us a Child Is Born (G. F. Handel)
17. In Dulci Jubilo (Samuel Scheidt)
18. Lully Lulla Thou Little Tiny Child (Kenneth Leighton)*
19. A New Year Carol (Benjamin Britten)
20. Balulalow (Peter Warlock)
21. I Saw a Fair Maiden (Peter Warlock)
22. The Lamb (John Tavener)
23. Fantasia on Christmas Carols (Ralph Vaughan Williams)