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