King's College Choir - O Come All Ye Faithful (CD Rip)

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King's College Choir / O Come All Ye Faithful

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01 Once in Royal David's City
02 Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen
03 On Christmas Night [Sussex Carol]
04 Ding Dong! Merrily on
05 O Little Town of Bethlehem
06 Silent Night
07 In The Bleak Mid-Winter
08 The First Nowell

09 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
10 Away in a Manger
11 The Seven Joys of Mary
12 The Infant King
13 God rest You Merry, Gentlemen
14 The Holly and the Ivy
15 I Saw Three Ships
16 O Come, All Ye Faithful

December 25, 2003
This CD was digitally recorded in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, in 1984 and is 48:51 in length, rather short measure by today's standards.
There are 16 traditional carols, with no orchestral accompaniment, no small group of instrumentalists; instead, what we have here is the archetypical Anglican performing ensemble of a small choir of exclusively male voices (boy sopranos and adult baritones) accompanied by organ.

The King's College, Cambridge, choir, raised to a rare peak of perfection by their distinguished former choirmaster David Willcocks (five of whose arrangements are used here), is the most famous choir of its kind in England, has made many recordings, and is in splendid form here.
If you like this Anglican format (and I do), this is an exceptionally beautiful and well-realized recording of English Christmas music.

The carols and the arrangements chosen, the performances, and the engineering are all beyond reproach. The soloists are exemplary; the boy sopranos with their vibrato-less, linear-toned young voices handle their high-lying part with that angelic purity, that ethereal, other-worldly quality, that seems a specialty of English boy choristers, and the arrangements display them to full advantage.

And a note for audiophiles: the acoustic of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, is exceptionally well caught: large, live, and reverberant, yet clear and unmuddied (no mean feat); and the organ, while never particularly loud, reaches into the bottom octave for extremely deep bass that is clearly registered. Altogether a delightful Christmas CD, and a special treat for Anglophiles.
David A. Kemp - review in Amazon.com