Harvard University Choir 2018-12-09 CD Cambridge Soundboard

106:07 minutes total Choral program 71:54 minutes 01 radio intro 0:07 02 "Child of the Manger" 5:10 - Carlotta Ferrari [1837-1907] ] text by Mary MacDonald [1789-1872] translated from Gaelic by Lachlan Macbean [1853-1931] refrain from the New Testament John 1:1 03 "Adeste, fidelis" 5:44 - Attributed to John Francis Wade [1711-1786] - Descant by David Willcocks [1919-2015] - organ interludes by John Ferris [1926-2008] 04 "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary") 1:58 - Pierre-Louis Dietsch [1808-1865] after "Nous voyons que le hommes" - Jacques Arcadelt [1507-1568] - Traditional Latin text 05 "There is No Rose" 2:25 - Benjamin Britten from "A Ceremony of Carols", Op.28 [1942] - Text by Anonymous, 15th century 06 "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" (aka "A Spotless Rose") 3:04 - German carol "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" [ca.1599] - Michael Praetorius harmonization [1606] 07 "I Wonder as I Wander" 1:52 - Carl Rütti [1996] - Text and original tune by John Jacob Niles [1892-1980] - Setting and tune by Carl Rütti [1996] 08 "Sou-Gân" 3:19 - Traditional Welsh carol - Edward Elwyn Jones arangement [2003] 09 "While Shepherds Watched" (aka "Sherburne") [1783] 3:18 - Daniel Read [1757-1836] - Text by Nahum Tate [1652-1715] 10 "Ding Dong! Merrily on High" 2:08 - Traditional French carol - Mack Wilberg arrangement [2007] - English text by George Ratcliffe Woodward [1848-1934] 11 "Angels We Have Heard on High" ("Gloria") 3:49 - Traditional French melody "Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes" - English text by Bishop James Chadwick [1813-1882] - Harmonization by Edward Shippen Barnes [1887-1958] 12 "The Shepherd's Carol" by 2:49 - 2000 arrangement by Bob Chilcott [b.1955] - Text by Clive Sansom [1910-1981] 13 "Still, Still, Still" 3:03 - Traditional Austrian carol - Norman Luboff [1917-1967] arrangement [1958] - English text by Marilyn [b.1929] and Alan [b.1925] Bergman 14 "The Three Kings" [aka "Three Kings From Persian Lands Afar"] ("Die Könige") [1856] 4:34 - by Peter Cornelius [1824-1874] - Jonathan Dove [b.1959] arrangement [2000] - Text by Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1936] 15 "Personent Hodie" 2:48 - from "Piae Cantones" [1582] - Gustav Holst [1874-1934] adaptation [1916] - Descant by John Rutter [b.1945] 16 "All Bells in Paradise" 5:35 - John Rutter [2012] 17 "Christmas of the Witnesses", Op.1319 [2018] 3:40 - Carson Cooman [b.1982] - Text by Euan Tait [b.1968] 18 "Silent Night" ("Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht ") [1818] 4:36 - Franz Xaver Gruber [1787-1863] - Text by Joseph Mohr [1792-1848] - Descants by Murray Forbes Somerville [b.1948] 19 "Nation shall Not Lift Up a Sword against Nation" 6:15 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, from "Dona nobis pacem" [1936] - Texts from the Old Testament, Isaiah 2:4; Leviticus 26:6; Psalms 85:10-11; Psalms 118:19; Isaiah 43:9, Isaiah 66:18-19 and 22; and the New Testament: Luke 2:14 [King James Version] 20 "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" 4:20 - Text by Charles Wesley [ca.1739] - music by Felix Mendelssohn from "Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest" (the "Gutenberg Cantata") [1840] - William Hayman Cummings [1831-1915] adaptation - Descant by David Wilcocks 21 outro 1:08 -- Organ preludes and postlude: Thomas Sheehan, organ 34:15 minutes Preludes: 01 "Fantasia di natale su Adeste, fideles” (2015) 5:48 - Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) 02 "Greensleeves [1934] 3:51 - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) - Arranged by Stanley Roper (1878–1953) 03 "Christmas", Op. 80 [1918] 7:58 - Arthur Foote (1853–1937) 04 The Dawn of Redeeming Grace [2003] 3:43 - Judith Bingham (b. 1952) 05 "A Festive Voluntary: Variations on Good King Wenceslas" [1986] - Petr Eben (1929–2007) postlude: 06 Improvisations on "Adeste, fidelis" [2005] - Francis Pott [b.1957]