Christmas from York

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Audio Samples

Album Summary

Performers

• Ian Colson (Voice)
• John Whiteley (Organ)
• Christopher O'Gorman (Voice)
• John Croyle (Organ)
• Billy Marshall (Organ)

Composers

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Christmas Traditional
• Richard Shephard (Composer) (1949 - )
• William James Kirkpatrick (1838 - 1921)
• Richard Storrs Willis (1819 - 1900)
• Jacobus Handl (Gallus) (1550 - 1591)
• Robert Parsons (16th cent. Composer) (circa 1535 - 1570)
• John Francis Wade (1711 - 1786)
• Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
• Henry John Gauntlett (1805 - 1876)
• Harold Darke (Organ/Composer) (1888 - 1976)
• John Scott Whiteley (Organ) (1950 - )
• John Rutter (1945 - )

Notes & Reviews:

A selection of carols that might be heard if you were among the 4,000 people who attend the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in York Minster on Christmas Eve.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009).

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Gauntlett, Henry John : Once in Royal David's City, carol

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: circa 1850

Traditional, Christmas : Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English)

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1833

Parsons, Robert : Ave Maria

• Performers: Christopher O'Gorman (Voice); John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1570

Darke, Harold Edwin : In the Bleak Midwinter

• Performers: John Whiteley (Organ); John Croyle (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 19th Century

Traditional, Christmas : The Holly and the Ivy (English)

• Performers: Billy Marshall (Organ); Ian Colson (Voice); John Croyle (Organ); John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1710

Shephard, Richard : The Promise of Peace, for chorus & organ

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Traditional, Christmas : The Lord at first did Adam make

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.

Wade, John Francis : O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 6 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1751

Traditional, Christmas : The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came (Birjina gaztettobat zegoen, Basque carol)

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.

Whiteley, John S. [Organ] : Reges Tharsis, for chorus & organ

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Kirkpatrick, William J. : Away in a manger :: Cradle Song) (New English Hymnal 22)

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1885

Warlock, Peter : Bethlehem Down

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1927

Traditional, Christmas : O Little Town of Bethlehem

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1868

Rutter, John : Shepherd's Pipe Carol

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1966

Traditional, Christmas : Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1588

Willis, Richard Storrs : It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1850

Poulenc, Francis : Hodie Christus natus est, motet for chorus (4 motets pour le temps de Noël), FP 152/4

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1952

Mendelssohn, Felix : Festgesang "Hark! The herald angels sing"

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1840

Handl, Jacobus : Omnes de Saba venient, Epiphany motet

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 1586

Traditional, Christmas : We Wish You a Merry Christmas (English)

• Performer: John Whiteley (Organ)
• Notes: York Minister (02/05/2009-02/13/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 15th Century