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ケンブリッジ・キングズ・カレッジ合唱団
500年以上という長い伝統を持つケンブリッジ・キングズ・カレッジ合唱団は、
少年合唱による高音域と、成人による中低域という、男声のみのいわゆる聖歌隊スタイルによる合唱ということで、
宗教音楽筆頭に合唱音楽によく求められる透明度の高い表現には最適な均一性が魅力ともなっています。
≪収録曲内容≫
【CD1】
01. Once in Royal David's City, carol
02. Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)
03. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)
04. The Holly and the Ivy (English)
05. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenburg Festival)
06. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
07. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
08. In the Bleak Midwinter
09. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
10. The Lamb, for chorus
11. Angels from the Realms of Glory
12. Adam Lay Y-Bounden, carol
13. The Three Kings (a.k.a. "We Three Kings")
14. I Saw A Maiden (Basque)
15. Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (Whence is that goodly fragrance?) (French)
16. Quem pastores laudavere (Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410)
17. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English)
18. A Maiden Most Gentle (French)
19. A Spotless Rose, for chorus
20. Sans Day Carol
21. I Wonder As I Wander
22. The Cherry Tree Carol
23. I Sing of a Maiden for 2 voices & piano
24. Gabriel's Message (Basque)
25. Personent hodie (On this day Earth shall ring) (Piae Cantiones)
【CD2】
01. The First Nowell (English)
02. In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
03. O Little Town of Bethlehem
04. I Saw Three Ships, carol
05. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
06. Away in a manger (Tune: Cradle Song) (New English Hymnal 22)
07. Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night")
08. O come, o come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel), carol
09. Myn Lyking
10. Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (The Apple Tree Carol)
11. All my heart this night rejoices, hymn
12. Dormi Jesu (The Virgin's Cradle Hymn)
13. Riu, riu, chiu
14. O Jesulein süß, o Jesulein mild (O Little One Sweet), carol (NEH No. 31)
15. Shepherd's Cradle Song
16. How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (Children's Song of the Nativity) (Tune: Stowey) (English)
17. The Truth From Above
18. Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen (Piae cantiones)
19. Remember, O thou man (from Melismata, 1611)
20. Quittez pasteurs (O come away ye shepherds) (French)
21. The Lord at first did Adam make
22. The infant King (Basque)
23. Ein Kind geborn zu Bethleham
24. And All in the Morning ("On Christmas Day"), carol for chorus or voice & piano (Traditional English)
25. Of the Father's heart begotten (A Christmas Procession)
26. In dulci jubilo (II), chorale prelude for organ, BWV 729 (BC K115)