Benjamin Britten : A Ceremony of Carols

1. Venite exultemus Domino
2. Te Deum in C
3. Jubilate Deo in C
4. Deus in adjutorium meum intende
5. A Hymn to the Virgin
6. A Hymn of St Columba
7. Hymn to St Peter, Op. 56a
8. The Holy Boy
9. Music, when soft voices die, H. 37
10. This have I done for my true love, Op. 34 No. 1, H. 128
11. The Sycamore Tree
12. The Holly and the Ivy
13. Christ's Nativity - 2. Sweet was the song
14. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 1. Procession
15. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 2. Wolcum Yole!
16. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 3. There is no rose
17. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 4a. That yongë child
18. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 4b. Balulalow
19. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 5. As dew in Aprille
20. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 6. This little babe
21. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 7. Interlude
22. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 8. In freezing winter night
23. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 9. Spring Carol
24. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 10. Deo gracias
25. A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 - 11. Recession
26. Friday Afternoons, Op. 7 - 5. A New Year Carol

It’s Christmas! Graham Ross invites you to explore the highly individual conception of traditional carols offered by twentieth-century British composers, and notably the most eminent among them, Benjamin Britten. Arranged around his famous Ceremony of Carols is a selection of wonderful choral pieces with or without organ, each of which testifies in its own way to the meticulous care Britten brought to these musical gems, most of them deriving from English folk tradition. Sheer delight!