Carols and motets for Christmas this week from recent recordings by The Bevan Family Consort, the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, the Choir of Trinity Church Boston, The Gesualdo Six, and the RIAS Kammerchor.
Show Notes
Traditional: Angels We have heard on High; What is this Great Wonder of the World; O Come all ye Faithful
Rosephayne Powell: Have you seen the Baby Jesus?
Robert Parsons: Ave Maria
- The Choir of Trinity Church Boston; Trinity Brass Ensemble
- Jerrick Cavagnaro, organ
- Colin Lynch, conductor
Plainchant: Alleluia, Veni Domine
Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy
Stanley Vann: There is a Flower
Imogen Holst: The Virgin Unspotted
Herbert Howells: Here is the Little Door
Pierre Villette: Jesu, dulcis Memoria
- The Bevan Family Consort & Graham Ross
William Walton: Make we joy now in this fest
Traditional: Away in a Manger; I Saw Three Ships
Giles Swayne: Magnificat
Peter Warlock: Benedicamus Dominum; Bethlehem Down
- Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
- Steven Grahl, conductor
- Benjamin Sheen, organ
Felix Mendelssohn: Frohlocket, ihr Volker auf Erden
Max Bruch: In der Christnacht
Johannes Brahms: O Heiland, reis die Himmel auf
Arvo Part: Magnificat
Francis Poulenc: Salve Regina
Edvard Grieg: Ave Maris Stella
- RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
- Hans Christoph Rademann, conductor
Traditional: Gaudete; Angelus ad Virginem
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: The promised light of life
Gustav Holst: Lullay my liking
Eleanor Daley: Love Came Down at Christmas
James Lord Pierpont: Jingle Bells
- The Gesualdo Six
- Owain Park, conductor