Friday, November 29, 2019

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

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