2016

CAROLS from KING’S 2016

A Celebration of Christmas

from the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge

with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

Director of Music

STEPHEN CLEOBURY

Organ Scholars

RICHARD GOWERS

HENRY WEBSDALE

Dean

The Revd Dr STEPHEN CHERRY

Dean and Director of Theology, King’s College, Cambridge

SERVICE

1. ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY by Henry John Gauntlett, descant: Stephen Cleobury

Bidding Prayer: The Dean

2. DING! DONG! MERRILY ON HIGH arr. Mack Wilberg

Reading: ISAIAH 11: 1-9 

3. A TENDER SHOOT Otto Goldschmidt

4. THE LAMB John Tavener

Reading: Advent Calendar by Rowan Williams

5. PAST THREE A CLOCK arr. Stephen Cleobury

6. IN THE BLEAK MID-WINTER Harold Darke

7. O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL arr. Stephen Cleobury

Reading: LUKE 1: 26-38

8. I SING OF A MAIDEN Lennox Berkeley

9. JOYS SEVEN arr. Stephen Cleobury

Reading: Mary’s Song by Charles Causley

10. SUO GÂN arr. Stephen Cleobury

11. THE HOLLY AND THE IVY arr. Henry Walford Davies

12. IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR desc. Stephen Cleobury

Reading: MATTHEW 2: 1-12

13. BETHLEHEM DOWN Peter Warlock

14. I SAW THREE SHIPS arr. Simon Preston

Reading: BC:AD by U.A. Fanthorpe 

15. THREE KINGS FROM PERSIAN LANDS Peter Cornelius

16. A BABE IS BORN William Mathias

Reading: JOHN 1: 1-14

17. O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM Tomás Luis de Victoria

Blessing: The Dean

18. O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL arr. David Willcocks

End of service.