Ralph Vaughan Williams - Christmas Music:
01 Fantasia on Christmas Carols (composer's arrangement for baritone, choir, organ and strings) ^ [12'19]
02 - 16 On Christmas Night. A Masque, after Dickens'A Christmas Carol [28'08]
17 - 24 The First Nowell. A Nativity Play * [29'09]
Roderick Williams- baritone; Sarah Fox- soprano *; Joseph Cullen- organ ^; Joyful Company of Singers; City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN10385 [recorded December 2005; issued 2006]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London
Recording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian Couzens
Christmas Baroque:
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. J Kuhnau): Sinfonia from Cantata No. 142, BWV 142 [1'14]
Giuseppi Torelli: Concerto di Pastorale, op.8 no.6 [5'15]
Francesco Manfredini: Sinfonia Pastorale, op.2 no.12 [6'17]
Michel-Richard de Lalande: Simphonie de Noëls [5'12]
Giovanni Ferrandini: Sinfonia Pastorale [8'38]
Michael Haydn: Pastorello, P.91 [9'22]
Johann Stamitz: Sinfonia Patorale, op.4 no.2 [12'22]
François-Joseph Gossec: Suite de Noëls [5'20]
George Frideric Handel: Pifa from Messiah, HWV 56 [2'25]
Giuseppe Valentini: Sinfonia a tre, op.1 no.12 [9'23]
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei
Morrison Music Trust MMT2043 [recorded August 2002; issued 2002]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealamd
Recording engineer: Keith Warren; Producer: Murray Khouri
A Vaughan Williams Christmas:
01 - 08 Eight Traditional English Carols (1919) * [22'53]
09 - 10 Two Carols (1945) [4'57]
11 - 15 From the Oxford Book of Carols (1928) * [16'41]
16 - 24 Nine Carols for male voices (1941) [25'49]
Hugh Rowlands- organ *, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea directed by William Vann
Albion Records ALBCD035 [recorded February 2018; issued 2018]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London
Recording engineer: Deborah Spanton; Producer: Andrew Walton
Orchestral Christmas:
01 - 08 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker. Suite, op.71a [25'11]
09 Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride [3'03]
10 Émile Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz [7'36]
11 (arr. Peter Knight): A Christmas Suite ('Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly', 'We Three Kings of Orient are' and 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen') [8'09]
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Gerhardt
Sony AK48591 [recording date not given; CD issued 1991]
[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venue, engineer and producer- no information provided. No booklet provided even with the CD release.
On Christmas Night:
01 John Rutter: What sweeter music
02 Trad.: Noël nouvelet
03 James Burton: Balulalow
04 William Mathias: A babe is born, op.55
05 Harold Darke: In the bleak mid-winter
06 Trad.: Ding! dong! merrily on high
07 Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree
08 Trad.: I saw three ships
09 Richard Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep
10 Peter Warlock: Benedicamus Domino
11 John Joubert: There is no rose
12 Trad.: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
13 Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden
14 Matheo Flecha the Elder: Riu, riu, chiu
15 Trad.: O little town of Bethlehem
16 Trad.: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
17 Christopher Robinson: Make we joy
18 Felix Mendelssohn: Hark! the herald angels sing
19 John Tavener: The Lamb
20 Michael Finnissy: Telling
21 Kenneth Leighton: Coventry Carol
22 Trad.: On Christmas night
23 Franz Gruber: Silent night
24 John Francis Wade: O come, all ye faithful
Total time: 74'22
John Challenger- organ, Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge directed by Andrew Nethsingha
Chandos CHSA5096 [recorded January 2011; CD/SACD issued 2011]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: St John’s College Chapel, Cambridge
Recording engineer: Jonathan Cooper; Producer Rachel Smith
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01 Fantasia on Christmas Carols (composer's arrangement for baritone, choir, organ and strings) ^ [12'19]
02 - 16 On Christmas Night. A Masque, after Dickens'A Christmas Carol [28'08]
17 - 24 The First Nowell. A Nativity Play * [29'09]
Roderick Williams- baritone; Sarah Fox- soprano *; Joseph Cullen- organ ^; Joyful Company of Singers; City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN10385 [recorded December 2005; issued 2006]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London
Recording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian Couzens
Christmas Baroque:
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. J Kuhnau): Sinfonia from Cantata No. 142, BWV 142 [1'14]
Giuseppi Torelli: Concerto di Pastorale, op.8 no.6 [5'15]
Francesco Manfredini: Sinfonia Pastorale, op.2 no.12 [6'17]
Michel-Richard de Lalande: Simphonie de Noëls [5'12]
Giovanni Ferrandini: Sinfonia Pastorale [8'38]
Michael Haydn: Pastorello, P.91 [9'22]
Johann Stamitz: Sinfonia Patorale, op.4 no.2 [12'22]
François-Joseph Gossec: Suite de Noëls [5'20]
George Frideric Handel: Pifa from Messiah, HWV 56 [2'25]
Giuseppe Valentini: Sinfonia a tre, op.1 no.12 [9'23]
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei
Morrison Music Trust MMT2043 [recorded August 2002; issued 2002]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealamd
Recording engineer: Keith Warren; Producer: Murray Khouri
A Vaughan Williams Christmas:
01 - 08 Eight Traditional English Carols (1919) * [22'53]
09 - 10 Two Carols (1945) [4'57]
11 - 15 From the Oxford Book of Carols (1928) * [16'41]
16 - 24 Nine Carols for male voices (1941) [25'49]
Hugh Rowlands- organ *, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea directed by William Vann
Albion Records ALBCD035 [recorded February 2018; issued 2018]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London
Recording engineer: Deborah Spanton; Producer: Andrew Walton
Orchestral Christmas:
01 - 08 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker. Suite, op.71a [25'11]
09 Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride [3'03]
10 Émile Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz [7'36]
11 (arr. Peter Knight): A Christmas Suite ('Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly', 'We Three Kings of Orient are' and 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen') [8'09]
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Gerhardt
Sony AK48591 [recording date not given; CD issued 1991]
[digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venue, engineer and producer- no information provided. No booklet provided even with the CD release.
On Christmas Night:
01 John Rutter: What sweeter music
02 Trad.: Noël nouvelet
03 James Burton: Balulalow
04 William Mathias: A babe is born, op.55
05 Harold Darke: In the bleak mid-winter
06 Trad.: Ding! dong! merrily on high
07 Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree
08 Trad.: I saw three ships
09 Richard Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep
10 Peter Warlock: Benedicamus Domino
11 John Joubert: There is no rose
12 Trad.: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
13 Matthew Martin: Adam lay ybounden
14 Matheo Flecha the Elder: Riu, riu, chiu
15 Trad.: O little town of Bethlehem
16 Trad.: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
17 Christopher Robinson: Make we joy
18 Felix Mendelssohn: Hark! the herald angels sing
19 John Tavener: The Lamb
20 Michael Finnissy: Telling
21 Kenneth Leighton: Coventry Carol
22 Trad.: On Christmas night
23 Franz Gruber: Silent night
24 John Francis Wade: O come, all ye faithful
Total time: 74'22
John Challenger- organ, Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge directed by Andrew Nethsingha
Chandos CHSA5096 [recorded January 2011; CD/SACD issued 2011]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: St John’s College Chapel, Cambridge
Recording engineer: Jonathan Cooper; Producer Rachel Smith
Download from Mega.