All Saints' Choir of Men & Boys ; Jeremy S. Bruns, conductor, organist ; Nancy Granert, organist ; Christian van Dyck, James Keefe, treble ; José Lemos, countertenor ; Dugan Morgridge, tenor ; Fred Graham, baritone ; Avery Griffin, bass
Editions published by Oxford University Press, E.C.S., Chester Music, Novello, H.W. Gray/CPP Belwin, and Breitkopf & Härtel.
Recorded 2003 January Church of the Advent, Boston.
Sung in English and Latin.
Matin responsory (translated from the First responsory of Advent Sunday) (3:02) / after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 : organ solo (4:03) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- This is the record of John (John 1:19-23) (3:55) / Orlando Gibbons -- Magnificat in G (Luke 1:46-55) (4:15) / Charles Villiers Stanford -- A maiden most gentle (paraphrased from The Venerable Bede) (2:56) / arr. Andrew Carter -- O Magnum Mysterium (4:08) / Tomás Luis de Victoria -- Shepherd's pipe carol (3:12) / John Rutter -- Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (from Divine hymns or spiritual songs, compiled by Joshua Smith, New Hampshire, 1784) Elizabeth Poston -- The Lamb (3:22) / John Tavener ; [text by] William Blake -- In the bleak midwinter (4:44) / Harold Darke ; [text by] Christina Rossetti -- Coventry carol : Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (from the Pageant of the shearmen and tailors, Coventry, 15th century) (2:52) / Kenneth Leighton -- A babe is born (15th century) (3:30) / William Mathias -- Manger carol (French, 13th century) (3:41) / Leo Sowerby ; tr. Winfred Douglas -- Gloria in excelsis Deo, from Missa secunda (3:18) / Hans Leo Hassler -- Nunc dimittis in G (Luke 2:29-32) (4:35) / Fantasy and fugue in G minor, BWV 542. Fantasy (5:29) ; Fugue (5:49) / Johann Sebastian Bach