Catalogue # SIGCD268

One of two releases in time for the Christmas period from the UKs’ best-loved a cappella group The King’s Singers: ‘Joy to the World’ [CD] was recorded last year at one of their ever-popular Christmas shows in London’s Cadogan Hall.

The King’s Singers bring together a programme of popular hymns and carols alongside modern works and arrangements – all performed with their characteristic warmth and precision.

Collin: The quiet heart
Davis, K K: The Little Drummer Boy (arr. John McCarthy)
Gruber, F: Stille Nacht, (arr. John Rutter)
Lawson, P: Lullay my Liking
Mason, L: Joy to the World (arr. Philip Lawson)
Pierpont: Jingle Bells (arr. Gordon Langford)
Rutter: There is a flower
Saint-Saëns: Sérénade d'hiver
Tchaikovsky: The Crown of Roses (arr. Jeremy Lubbock)
trad.: Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow (arr. Carl Davis), Gabriel’s Message (‘The angel Gabriel from heaven came’) (arr. Edgar Pettman), Noël nouvelet (arr. Philip Lawson), What Child is this? (Greensleeves) (arr. Bob Chilcott), O little one sweet (arr. J S Bach), The Twelve Days Of Christmas (arr. Geoffrey Keating, featuring John Julius Norwich’s ‘A correspondence’), Gaudete (arr. Brian Kay), God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Geoffrey Keating), Deck the Hall (arr. Gordon Langford)

The King’s Singers