The latest release in Regent’s popular ‘Christmas from …’ series features the Choir of Bath Abbey, directed by Peter King.

A wonderful collection of Christmas music from quiet lullabies to full-voiced rejoicing, captured in the stunning acoustic of this beautiful and historic building.

Many of the carols featured on this recording are original compositions, or new arrangements, from the recent ‘Carols for Choirs’ Vol.5 collection, and are receiving their first recording on this disc.

Contents:
1. Carol of the bells
M Leontovich, arr Peter Wilhousky

2. Once in royal David’s city
A H Mann, arr David Willcocks

3. Sussex Carol
Trad English, arr Bob Chilcott

4. Adam lay ybounden
Howard Skempton

5. It came upon the midnight clear
Trad English, adapted Arthur Sullivan, arr John Scott

6. Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming
14th-century German, arr David Blackwell

7. Unto us is born a son
Piae Cantiones (1582), arr Willcocks

8. A stable lamp
Richard Shephard

9. Ding dong! merrily on high
Trad English, arr Willcocks

10. God rest you merry, gentlemen
Trad, arr Mark Sirett

11. Glory to the Christ Child
Alan Bullard

12. Good king Wenceslas
Piae Cantiones, arr Chilcott

13. I saw a stable
Alan Bullard

14. There is no rose
Howard Skempton

15. While shepherds watched
Este’s Psalter (1592), arr Chilcott

16. Away in a manger
James R Murray, arr Chilcott

17. A little child there is born
Malcolm Archer

18. O little town of Bethlehem
Trad, v3 arr Dudley Holroyd, v4 arr David Hill

19. Silent night
Franz Gruber, arr Chilcott

20. The Bell Carol
Philip Ledger

21. O come, all ye faithful
J F Wade, arr Ledger

22. What child is this?
Thomas Hewitt Jones

23. The Christ-child
Gabriel Jackson

24. Hark! the herald angels sing
Felix Mendelssohn, arr Paul Leddington Wright