Following their highly successful releases on Signum (the Hymns Album and Handel’s Messiah conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras) the Huddersfield Choral Society is back in force with a magnificent collection of Christmas carols. This CD will be a perfect Christmas gift or glorious self-indulgence, absorbing the sacred and profane alike, beautifully performed and recorded for the festive season.
Huddersfield Choral Society
Joseph Cullen conductor
Darius Battiwalla organ
RELEASE DATE: 01/10/2007
CATALOGUE NUMBER: SIGCD108
BARCODE: 635212010822
1. Hark! the herald-angels sing
2. Gaudete
3. Gabriel’s Message
4. O little town of Bethlehem
5. Coventry Carol
6. In excelsis gloria
7. Silent night
8. Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing
9. Angels from the realms of glory
10. Ave Maria
11. Joy to the world
12. Little Jesus, sweetly sleep
13. Unto us a boy is born
14. Love came down at Christmas
15. O come, all ye faithful
16. The holly and the ivy
17. O holy night
18. In the bleak midwinter
19. Ding dong! merrily on high
20. It came upon the midnight clear
21. Hail! smiling morn
22. Sussex Carol
23. Of the Father’s heart begotten
24. Away in a manger
25. I saw three ships
26. Christians awake
