Christmas From Truro / Robert Sharpe, Truro Cathedral Choir

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Album Summary

Performers

• Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Nicholas Hawker (Tenor)
• Thomas Armstrong (Descant)
• Nicholas Morton (Boy Soprano)
• Edward Allen (French Horn)

Composers

• Traditional
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
• Boris Ord (1897 - 1961)
• John Wainwright
• Henry John Gauntlett (1805 - 1876)
• William J. Kirkpatrick (1838 - 1921)
• Gabriel Jackson (1962 - )
• Howard Skempton (1947 - )
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Anonymous
• William Mathias (1934 - 1992)
• John Rutter (1945 - )
• John Goss (1800 - 1880)

Notes & Reviews:

This new collection of classics is an anthology of well-known Christmas favorites as might be heard in the Christmas liturgies in Truro Cathedral each year.

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Works Details

Gauntlett, Henry John : Once in Royal David City

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 4 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 19th Century

Anonymous : Coventry Carol

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas

Traditional : Ding dong! merrily on high

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 16th Century

Kirkpatrick, William J. : Away in a manger

• Performers: Christopher Gray (Organ); Nicholas Hawker (Tenor)
• Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas

Mathias, William : Sir Christèmas

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : O little town of Bethlehem

• Performers: Christopher Gray (Organ); Thomas Armstrong (Descant)
• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1906

Traditional : The First Nowell

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 5 min. 18 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Jackson, Gabriel : Nowell sing we

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas

Rutter, John : Sans Day Carol

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas

Anonymous : O come all ye faithful

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 6 min. 15 sec.

Ord, Boris : Adam lay ybounden

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1957

Traditional : Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 16th Century

Skempton, Howard : Rejoice, Rejoice

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Christmas

Traditional : The Angel Gabriel

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 27 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Goss, John : See amid the winter's snow

• Performers: Nicholas Morton (Boy Soprano); Christopher Gray (Organ); Edward Allen (French Horn)
• Running Time: 6 min. sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 19th Century

Traditional : The Truth from above

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Traditional : Angels, from the realms of glory

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 4 min. 8 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Traditional : While shepherds watched (from Este's Psalter, 1592)

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1592

Wainwright, John : Christians awake!

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Christmas

Mendelssohn, Felix : Hark! the herald angels sing

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1840

Traditional : We wish you a merry Christmas

• Performer: Christopher Gray (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 43 sec.
• Form: Christmas