A Ceremony of Carols

Album by Benjamin Britten & Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge & Richard Marlow

A Ceremony of Carols is a choral composition by English composer Benjamin Britten, composed in 1942. Scored for treble voices and harp, it sets medieval and Renaissance texts in a concise, modal-inflected idiom that helped establish its place in Britten's output and in mid-20th-century choral repertoire.
First released: 1997

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: I. Procession
    1:37
  2. 2.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: II. Wolcum Yole
    1:18
  3. 3.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: III. There is no rose
    2:44
  4. 4.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: IV. That yongë child
    1:55
  5. 5.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: V. Balulalow
    1:26
  6. 6.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: VI. As dew in Aprille
    0:58
  7. 7.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: VII. This little Babe
    1:25
  8. 8.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: VIII. Interlude
    3:43
  9. 9.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: IX. In freezing winter night
    3:58
  10. 10.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: X. Spring Carol
    1:05
  11. 11.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: XI. Deo gracias
    1:07
  12. 12.
    A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28: XII. Recession
    1:40
  13. 13.
    A Hymn to the Virgin
    3:07
  14. 14.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "Rejoice in God"
    1:30
  15. 15.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "Let Nimrod the mighty hunter"
    1:19
  16. 16.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "Hallelujah"
    1:16
  17. 17.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "For I will consider my cat Jeoffry"
    2:12
  18. 18.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "For the Mouse is a creature of great personal valour"
    1:03
  19. 19.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "For the flowers are great blessings"
    2:08
  20. 20.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "For I am under the same accusation with my Saviour"
    2:43
  21. 21.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "For H is a spirit"
    0:56
  22. 22.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "For the instruments are by their rhimes"
    1:23
  23. 23.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "For at that time malignity ceases"
    1:02
  24. 24.
    Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30: "Hallelujah"
    1:26
  25. 25.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: "In a garden shady this holy lady"
    2:00
  26. 26.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: "Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions"
    0:34
  27. 27.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: "I cannot grow"
    1:16
  28. 28.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: "Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions"
    0:38
  29. 29.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: "O ear whose creatures"
    1:23
  30. 30.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: "O dear white children"
    3:31
  31. 31.
    Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27: "Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions"
    1:07
  32. 32.
    Missa Brevis, op. 63: I. Kyrie
    1:54
  33. 33.
    Missa Brevis, op. 63: II. Gloria
    2:39
  34. 34.
    Missa Brevis, op. 63: III. Sanctus
    1:25
  35. 35.
    Missa Brevis, op. 63: IV. Benedictus
    1:43
  36. 36.
    Missa Brevis, op. 63: V. Agnus Dei
    2:28
  37. 37.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: I. St. Godric's Hymn
    1:34
  38. 38.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: II. I mon waxe wod
    0:40
  39. 39.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: III. Lenten is come
    2:25
  40. 40.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: IV. The long night
    1:14
  41. 41.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: V. Yif ic of luve can
    2:50
  42. 42.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: VI. Carol
    1:36
  43. 43.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: VII. Ye that pasen by
    2:03
  44. 44.
    Sacred and Profane - Eight Medieval Lyrics, op. 91: VIII. A death
    2:46

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