Felix Mendelssohn:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Arr. Sir David Willcocks)

Philip Ledger:
A Spotless Rose

John Rutter:
All Bells in Paradise
Five Meditations for Orchestra
Dormi, Jesu
Nativity Carol
All the Stars Looked Down
Five Meditations for Orchestra

Traditional:
Sussex Carol (Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Orch. Daniel Hyde)
Sans Day Carol (Arr. Sir John Rutter)
Hereford Carol (Arr. Christopher Robinson, Orch. Sir John Rutter)
Child in a Manger (Arr. Sir John Rutter)

Adolphe Adam:
O Holy Night (Arr. Sir John Rutter)

Henry Walford Davies:
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Orch. Sir Stephen Cleobury and Daniel Hyde)

Anonymous:
Unto Us is Born a Son (Arr. Sir David Willcocks)

Franz Xaver Gruber:
Silent Night (Arr. Sir John Rutter)

William James Kirkpatrick:
Away in a Manger (Arr. David Hill)

John Francis Wade:
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Arr. Sir David Willcocks)

Following the success of their 2023 digital EP, Rutter Orchestral Carols, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, releases a new album for Christmas 2025, featuring a selection of arrangements and original works for choir and orchestra under the direction of Daniel Hyde. Recorded in the beloved Chapel of King’s College Cambridge, All the Stars Looked Down sees the choir performing alongside Britten Sinfonia once again, and includes beautiful orchestral arrangements of Christmas carols by John Rutter alongside a selection of both well-loved and lesser-known carols by the great choral composers who have influenced him, including Philip Ledger, David Willcocks and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Woven throughout the album are works that are especially meaningful to the Choir and its community and the album’s title track, John Rutter’s All the Stars Looked Down, is dedicated to the late Sir Stephen Cleobury.

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Recorded in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, June 2023 and January 2025