Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Here it is! The ULTIMATE Holiday survival kit! As a special purchase for fans of the indefatigable Cambridge Singers and their director John Rutter, two of their most popular seasonal recordings have been packaged together in one handsome slipcase – at a VERY SPECIAL PRICE! Individually, each recording has already sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide – together, they are the ONLY purchase for Christmas music you will have to make. From the ever-popular Joy to the World, to John Rutter’s oft requested Candlelight Carol, these discs provide a generous helping of seasonal musical cheer for everyone! Note: Mistletoe and Turkey NOT INCLUDED!(Includes COL 106 and COL 111)









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Disc 1:

1. Joy to the world - Lowell Mason
2. Hodie Christus natus est - J. P. Sweelinck
3. Angels' Carol - John Rutter
4. Ding dong! Merrily on high - French traditional
5. 'Twas in the moon of winter time - Canadian traditional
6. Personent hodie - German traditional
7. Sussex Carol - English traditional8. In dulci jubilo - Samuel Scheidt
8. Somerset wassail - English traditional
9. For unto us a child is born - G. F. Handel
10. O Holy night - AdolpheAdam
11. What sweeter music - John Rutter
12. O magnum mysterium - T. L. de Victoria
13. Still, still, still - German traditional
14. Coventry Carol - 16th-century English
15. What child is this? - English traditional
16. The shepherds' farewell - Hector Berlioz
17. The Infant King - Basque traditional
18. Quem pastores laudavere - 14th-century German
19. A New Year carol - Benjamin Britten
20. Silent night - Franz Gruber

Disc 2:

1. 1n dulci jubilo - German traditional
2. Adam lay ybounden - Boris Ord
3. Christmas Night - French traditional
4. Once, as I remember - Italian carol
5. A spotless Rose - Herbert Howells
6. In the bleak midwinter - Harold Darke
7. There is a flower - John Rutter
8. The cherry tree carol - English traditional
9. I wonder as I wander - Appalachian carol
10. Candlelight carol - John Rutter
11. O Tannenbaum - German traditional
12. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - English traditional
13. A virgin most pure - English traditional
14. I sing of a maiden - Patrick Hadley
15. Lute-book lullaby - William Ballet
16. The three kings - Peter Comelius
17. Myn liking - R. R. Terry
18. 'O little one sweet - Samuel Scheidt
19. All my heart this night rejoices - J. G. Ebeling
20. I saw a maiden - Basque Noel
21. Away in a manger – W. J. Kirkpatrick
22. Nativity carol - John Rutter

Rating: - Quintessential Choral Music for Christmas
This release consists of "Christmas Night" (Collegium 106) and "Christmas with the Cambridge Singers" (Coll 111). If you don't already have these two CDs, purchase this now! John Rutter is without peer as composer, arranger, and conductor of choral music, and these CDs are everything you could want in choral music for the holidays. The Cambridge Singers perform with flawless diction, tonality, and musicianship. The arrangements are rich and bubbly or pristine and elegant but always, always gorgeous. I also recommend "Christmas Day in the Morning" (Coll 123). Rutter's "Gloria" (Coll 100) is also stunning, and that CD includes some great examples of his non-Christmas work. Just listen to any of the Rutter samples you'll find here at Amazon, and I promise, you will be enchanted.