Christmas night (album)

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“Christmas Night” (subtitled “Carols of the Nativity”) is a Christmas-themed album by The Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter. Most songs are sung a capella, on others the choir is accompanied by The City of London Sinfonia. It was first released in 1987 on Rutter’s label Collegium Records.

1 The album
2 Tracklisting
3 Personnel
4 Links

[edit] The album

The CD version of “Christmas Night” contains 22 Christmas carols spanning more than six centuries. Most of these have become well known thanks to the Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College in Cambridge. Some arrangements for the carols on the album were written by conductors or arrangers who have worked at King’s College over the years.

Most carols on the album were written centuries ago, although several are relatively young. For instance, “Candlelight carol” was written in 1984 by Rutter. Others are a mix of old and new: “There is a flower" was written by fiftheenth century monk John Audely, with new music by John Rutter.