New CD of 2018 KCC Lessons & Carols service

The choir of King’s College Cambridge has released a CD of their complete service (with lessons) from last year’s Christmas Eve service, the 100th anniversary of the first Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s.

The CD, entitled (appropriately), “A Festival Of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service,” was released on the captive King’s College label. It is available on CD from Amazon US or Amazon UK, as a SACD hybrid disk with both regular and surround sound. The digital download is available only on iTunes. Both include a PDF program booklet, which includes a small-format version of the seat bulletin as well as some general background information.

The download captures the last year’s complete service, as does the CD (with two exceptions†):

1. Once in royal Davids City (Congregation Hymn)
2. The Bidding Prayer, Lords Prayer and Benediction
3. Up! good Christen folk
4. First Lesson
5. Adam lay ybounden
6. Jesus Christ the apple tree
7. Second Lesson
8. In dulci jubilo
9. I Saw Three Ships†
10. Third Lesson
11. Nowell sing we
12. Unto us is born a Son (Congregation Hymn)
13. Fourth Lesson
14. A Spotless Rose
15. The Lamb
16. Fifth Lesson
17. Joys Seven
18. Bogorditse Dyevo
19. Sixth Lesson
20. What sweeter music
21. Stille Nacht
22. Seventh Lesson
23. In the bleak midwinter
24. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night (Congregation Hymn)†
25. Eighth Lesson
26. O mercy divine
27. Sir Christmas
28. Ninth Lesson
29. O come, all ye faithful (Congregation Hymn)
30. Collect and Blessing
31. Hark! the herald angels sing (Congregation Hymn)
32. In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (postlude)

† Included on iTunes but not CD; CD owners can use a special code to download the files in either WAV or MP3 format