The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross, with organists Peter Harrison and Matthew Jorysz, David Miller, lute, Oliver Pashley, clarinet, Stephen Craigen, horn, Joy Lisney, cello, and Marianne Schofield, double bass.
Includes Mendelssohn's 'Frohlocket ihr Völker auf Erden'; Schütz's 'Das Wort ward Fleisch'; Tradi Herefordshire arr Vaughan Williams 'The truth from above'; Trad old Basque, arr Pettman 'Gabriel's Message'; Britten's 'A boy was born' (theme); Mathias's 'A babe is born'; Trad French arr Willcocks 'Quelle est cette odeur agréable?'; John Tavener Hymn to the Mother of GodGiles Swayne's 'Uncommon Prayers' (first UK performance); Vaughan Williams's 'The truth sent from above'; Tavener's 'Hymn to the Mother of God'; Rutter's 'Nativity Carol'; Praetorius's 'In dulci jubilo' (arr Ross); Mendelssohn's 'Frohlocket ihr Völker auf Erden'; and Grüber's 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht'; Schoenberg's 'Friede auf Erden'; and JS Bach's In Dulce Jubilo'.