Remember Bethlehem - Carols for a New Millenium

Remember Bethlehem - Carols for a New Millenium

A collection of new popular carols for Christmas sung in the cathedral choral tradition. The simple 2000 year-old story of the Nativity continues to inspire sublime music from the composers of our time. Here all the familiar strands, the animals in the stable, the kings, the shepherds, the cradle songs, the prophetic, the mystical, and the dancing and celebration are woven together in new colours for the new.

“Christ Church Choir’s 22 lyrical carols are drawn from composers of earlier generations, among them Bax, Howells and a gem in Ives’s Little Star of Bethlehem. The mellifluous singing cossets some exquisite music that the disc tenderly rescues from unfamiliarity“ (Daily Telegraph)

“Darlington and his choir give us twentieth century carols in the cathedral choir tradition, all with ready popular appeal. A bracing antidote to the usual glut of Victorian Christmas fare” (International Record Review)

Track listing

• 1. Remember Bethlehem - Howard Goodall 2. Snows the land cover - Alan Ridout (soloist: Adrian Lowe, tenor)
• 5. Jacob's ladder - Stephen Darlington (soloist: Alastair Merry, bass)
• 6. God is born - Arnold Bax (tenor solo: Adam Tunnicliffe)
• 8. Romance of the Epiphany - Howard Goodall
• 9. In the bleak midwinter - Michael Mullinar
• 10. Little star of Bethlehem - Charles Ives
• 11. Der Wind auf leeren Strassen - Howard Goodall
• 12. Entre les boeufs et l'âne gris - Eric Routley
• 13. Our blessed lady's lullaby - Bernard Rose (solo: Adam Tunnicliffe, tenor)
• 15. There is no rose of such virtue - Sebastian Forbes
• 16. In the manger - Arnold Bax (fantasia on a Polish carol)
• 18. What child is this? (soloist: John Cotton, alto)
• 20. Ninna-Nanna a Gesù bambino - Lavinio Virgili (soloist: Andrew Blythman, treble)21. Come sing and dance - Herbert Howells (soloist: Adam Tunnicliffe, tenor)