MET 1044 - Christ Church Cathedral Choir - Remember Bethlehem

Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Director Stephen Darlington

A collection of new popular carols for Christmas sung in the cathedral choral tradition.  The simple 2000-year-old story of the Nativity continue to inspire sublime music from the composers of our time.  Here all the familiar strands, the animals in the stable, the kings, the shepherds, the cradle songs, the prophetic, the mstical, and the dancing and celebration are woven together in new colours for the new millenium

Remember Bethlehem
God is born, In the manger (2 fantasias on  Polish carols) - Arnold Bax
The Lamb - P.A.Browne
Jacob’s Ladder - Stephen Darlington
There is no rose of such virtue - Sebastian Forbes
What child is this? - Andrew Gant
Love divine,   Remember  Bethlehem, Romance of the Epiphany - Howard Goodall                    
Come sing and dance - Herbert Howells
Little star of Bethlehem - Charles Ives
Lute book lullaby  - John Madden
In the bleak midwinter - Michael Mullinar
Entre les boeufs et l’âne - Elisabeth Poston
Snows the land cover - Alan Ridout                     
Our blessed lady’s lullaby - Bernard Rose
Ninna-Nanna a Gesù bambino - Lavinio Virgili
One cold dark night,  Shepherd’s Carol - Peter White                        
Dawn Carol - Malcolm Williamson           

MET CD 1044 70.10 mins  Full text and English translation                Digital [DDD]