Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - O Holy Night: Christmas Carols from St John's (2025)

The second album from the Choir of St John’s with their new music director - Christopher Gray. At the centre of the programme are the atmospheric Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël by Francis Poulenc, and the heartfelt Three Carol-Anthems by Herbert Howells who directed the Choir here at St John’s during the Second World War. Other items include the beautiful carol John Rutter wrote for the Choir in 1985, There is a flower, and the haunting Peace on earth by Master of the King’s Music, Errollyn Wallen. “My aim with this album has not been to break new ground with repertoire, but to ensure that classics remain fresh for the current generation”

Tracklist
1. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Adam: O holy night
2. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Beamish: In the stillness
3. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Jones: Noel, verbum caro factum est (Multitude of Voyces Edition, 2020)
4. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Traditional: Sussex Carol
5. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Rutter: There is a flower
6. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Anonymous: There is no rose
7. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Anonymous: Three Carol-Anthems: A Spotless Rose
8. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Howells: Three Carol-Anthems: Sing Lullaby
9. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Howells: Three Carol-Anthems: Here Is The Little Door
10. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Traditional: In dulci jubilo
11. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Wallen: Peace On Earth
12. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Mendelssohn: Christus, Op. 97: Part 1. "When Jesus our Lord was born" - "Say where is he born" - "There shall a star"
13. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Gruber: Stille Nacht
14. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël: O Magnum Mysterium
15. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël: Quem vidistis pastores dicite
16. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël: Videntes stellem
17. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël: Hodie Christus natus est
18. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - McGlade: In the bleak midwinter
19. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Dove: The Three Kings

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