A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service

Album by Stephen Cleobury & Cambridge Choir of King’s College

A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service is a live album conducted by Stephen Cleobury, released in 2018. The recording presents traditional Anglican choral repertoire performed in the chapel setting with liturgical carols and choir-led responses, marking the centenary of the annual service and serving as a late-career document of Cleobury's long association with the festival.
First released: 8th November 2019

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Once in Royal David's City
    4:21
  2. 2.
    Bidding Prayer, Lord's Prayer and Blessing
    3:16
  3. 3.
    Up! Good Christen Folk
    1:20
  4. 4.
    Reading: First Lesson (Genesis 3.8-15, 17-19)
    2:44
  5. 5.
    Adam Lay Ybounden
    1:11
  6. 6.
    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
    2:39
  7. 7.
    Reading: Second Lesson (Genesis 22.15-18)
    1:02
  8. 8.
    In dulci jubilo
    3:04
  9. 9.
    I Saw Three Ships
    2:15
  10. 10.
    Reading: Third Lesson (Isaiah 9.2, 6-7)
    1:08
  11. 11.
    Nowell Sing We
    3:07
  12. 12.
    Unto Us is Born a Son
    2:21
  13. 13.
    Reading: Fourth Lesson (Isaiah 11.1-4a, 6-9)
    1:59
  14. 14.
    A Spotless Rose
    2:44
  15. 15.
    The Lamb
    3:07
  16. 16.
    Reading: Fifth Lesson (Luke 1.26-35, 38)
    2:30
  17. 17.
    Joys Seven
    3:14
  18. 18.
    Bogoróditse Dyevo
    1:15
  19. 19.
    Reading: Sixth Lesson (Luke 2.1-7)
    1:01
  20. 20.
    What Sweeter Music
    4:09
  21. 21.
    Stille Nacht
    2:28
  22. 22.
    Reading: Seventh Lesson (Luke 2.8-16)
    1:40
  23. 23.
    In the Bleak Mid-Winter
    4:08
  24. 24.
    While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
    2:53
  25. 25.
    Reading: Eighth Lesson (Matthew 2.1-12)
    2:45
  26. 26.
    O Mercy Divine
    3:56
  27. 27.
    Sir Christémas
    1:44
  28. 28.
    Reading: Ninth Lesson (John 1.1-14)
    2:09
  29. 29.
    O Come, All Ye Faithful
    4:23
  30. 30.
    Collect and Blessing
    1:05
  31. 31.
    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    3:24
  32. 32.
    In dulci jubilo, BWV 729
    2:37

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