O HOLY NIGHT: Christmas carols from St John’s

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This item will be released October 17, 2025.

The second album from the Choir of St John’s with their new music director – Christopher Gray.

At the centre of the programme are the atmospheric Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël by Francis Poulenc, and the heartfelt Three Carol-An-thems by Herbert Howells who directed the Choir here at St John’s during the Second World War. Other items include the beautiful carol John Rutter wrote for the Choir in 1985, There is a flower, and the haunting Peace on earth by Master of the King’s Music, Errollyn Wallen.

“My aim with this album has not been to break new ground with repertoire, but to ensure that classics remain fresh for the current generation” – Christopher Gray

SKU: SIGCD913

The Choir of St John’s College – Choir

Christopher Gray – Conductor


Release date: 17th October 2025

Catalogue number: SIGCD913

Barcode: 635212091326

[1] O Holy Night – [Adolphe Adam]
[2] In the stillness – [Sally Beamish]
[3] Noel: verbum caro factum est (Multitude of Voyces Edition, 2020) – [Tamsin Jones]
[4] Sussex Carol – [Traditional arr. Philip Ledger]
[5] There is a flower – [John Rutter]
[6] There is no rose – [Anonymous]

Three Carol-Anthems: – [Herbert Howells]
[7] A Spotless Rose
[8] Sing Lullaby
[9] Here Is The Little Door

[10] In dulci jubilo – [Robert Lucas Pearsall]
[11] Peace on Earth – [Errolyn Wallen]
[12] When Jesus our lord was born in Bethlehem…Say, where is he born…There shall a star from Jacob come forth [Felix Mendelssohn]
[13] Stille Nacht – [Franz Xaver Gruber arr. Simon Morley]

Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël – [Francis Poulenc]
[14] I. O Magnum mysterium
[15] II. Quem vidistis pastores dicite
[16] III. Videntes stellam
[17] IV. Hodie Christus natus est

[18] In the Bleak Midwinter – [Becky McGlade]
[19] The Three Kings – [Jonathan Dove]

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