Utwory na płycie:

• Hymn: Once in royal David’s city
• Bidding Prayer, Lord's Prayer and Blessing
• Herefordshire Carol
• First Lesson
• Boris Ord: Adam lay ybounden
• Adam lay ybounden
• A Virgin most pure
• Second Lesson
• In dulci jubilo
• Peter Tranchell: If ye would hear the angels sing
• Third Lesson
• Sussex Carol
• Hymn: God rest you merry, gentlemen
• Fourth Lesson
• Otto Goldschmidt: A tender shoot
• Michael Praetorius: Det är en ros utsprungen
• Fifth Lesson
• Pierre Villette: Hymne a la Vierge
• Peter Hurford: Sunny bank
• Sixth Lesson
• Max Reger: Mariä Wiegenlied
• The holly and the ivy
• Seventh Lesson
• Hymn: While shepherds watched
• Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem
• Eighth Lesson
• Einojuhani Rautavaara: Christmas Carol
• Ding! Dong! Merrily on high
• Ninth Lesson
• Hymn: O come, all ye faithful
• Collect and Blessing
• Hymn: Hark! the herald angels sing
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Voluntary: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729)
• Gabriel Jackson: The Christ Child
• Brett Dean: Now comes the dawn
• Mark Anthony Turnage: Misere' nobis
• Dominic Muldowney: Mary
• Tansy Davies: Christmas Eve

With a TV and radio audience of millions, the annual broadcast of carols from King’s College, Cambridge is an essential Christmas tradition for families all over the world. The debut album from the Choir’s own label features a specially recorded performance of their glorious Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols, and includes many of the most well-known Christmas carols as well as new commissions from some of today’s most popular composers.

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge is one of the world’s foremost choirs and unquestionably among the most widely heard. It owes its existence to King Henry VI, who envisaged the daily singing of services in his magnificent chapel. This remains the Choir’s raison d’etre, and is an important part of the lives of its 16 choristers, who are educated at King’s College School, and the 14 choral scholars and two organ scholars, who study a variety of subjects in the College. The Choir has been a breeding ground for numerous professional singers, many of whom will appear on forthcoming recordings from the new label.

The Choir has a rich recording heritage, having appeared on numerous albums for both Decca and EMI Classics. The Choir’s recording of Rutter’s Gloria has sold in excess of 100,000 units globally and its previous albums of Christmas music have sold in the millions.

This double album faithfully recreates the magic of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, opening with a lone treble singing Once in royal David’s city and closing with a rousing chorus of Hark! the herald angels sing. Each year, the Choir’s Director of Music Stephen Cleobury commissions a new carol, several of which are included on the album, including carols by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Gabriel Jackson, Brett Dean, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Dominic Muldowney and Tansy Davies. In addition, John Rutter was commissioned to write the new carol All bells in paradise specially for this album.

The album’s release will be accompanied by a major international press and marketing campaign and will be supported by advertising. Video is available for online and instore use, with the campaign culminating in this year’s Christmas broadcasts.

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge will tour to the USA during April 2013, coinciding with the label’s second release, Mozart’s Requiem, with special guest soloists and a unique bonus CD presenting extracts from alternative completions of the work.

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Dates - December 2010, January 2011, June 2012; Location - The Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge