The first release on the Regent label from the critically-acclaimed Choir of Winchester Cathedral, one of the UK’s foremost Cathedral choirs with an international reputation.

The CD contains a varied selection of favourite carols to appeal to all tastes and includes a new recording of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols.

Contents:
• On Christmas night (Sussex Carol) – English trad, arr Sir Philip Ledger
• The Shepherd’s Carol – Bob Chilcott
• The holly and the ivy – English trad, arr Sir Henry Walford Davies)
• God rest ye merry, gentlemen – English trad, arr Sir David Willcocks
• Wither’s Rocking Hymn – Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr Andrew Lumsden
• The angel Gabriel – Basque, arr Edgar Pettman
• A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28 – Benjamin Britten
• Christmas Cradle Song (organ solo) – Alfred Hollins
• O magnum mysterium – Morten Lauridsen
• Ding dong! merrily on high – 16thC French, arr Charles Wood
• Sans Day Carol – Cornish trad, arr John Rutter
• In the bleak midwinter – Harold Darke
• Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – John Gardner
• O come, all ye faithful – 18thC English, arr Sir David Willcocks
• Toccata-Prelude on Vom Himmel hoch (organ solo) – Garth Edmundson