An English Christmas at Merton College

 

An English Christmas at Merton College

New Recording of Christmas Works features Chilcott, Rutter, MacMillan, Weir, Briggs, Hewitt Jones, McDowall, Panufnik, and Jackson

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From the radiant simplicity of Bob Chilcott and John Rutter to the mystical intensity of Judith Weir and James MacMillan, the Choir of Merton College’s An English Christmas gathers a century of festive choral inspiration into one luminous album. Benjamin Nicholas conducts forces including the Oxford Philharmonic and Contemporary Sinfonia in music that glows with lyric warmth and orchestral colour. 

Alongside carols by Holst, Howells and Vaughan Williams are new works by Kerensa Briggs, Roxanna Panufnik and Cecilia McDowall — a celebration of both tradition and renewal, and of the uniquely English choral sound that has become Merton’s hallmark.

1. A great and mighty wonder By Bob Chilcott
2. Shepherd’s Pipe Carol By John Rutter
3. All bells in paradise
4. Advent Antiphon By James MacMillan 
5. Drop down, ye heavens, from above By Judith Weir 
6. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day By John Gardner
7. What child is this? By Thomas Hewitt Jones 
8. O Oriens By Cecilia McDowall
9. In the bleak mid-winter By Harold Darke 
10. Jesus Christ the apple tree By Bob Chilcott 
11. In dulci jubilo By Traditional 
12. Was I the lamb By John Rutter 
13. Sleep, Jesus, sleep By Roxanna Panufnik 
14. In the Bleak Mid-winter By Gustav Holst
15. O Mortal Man By Herbert Howells Choir of Merton College
16. It came upon the midnight clear By Edmund Sears
17. This is the truth sent from above By Traditional 
18. Silent night By Traditional
19. A Tender Shoot By Kerensa Briggs 
20. Toccata By Gabriel Jackson

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