EMI Classics: 7243 5 58070 2 1 (0946 3 36760 2 2--0946 3 36761 2 1)

"Carols commissioned specially for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel, Cambridge"--Container

Compact discs

Program notes and texts (19 p.) on insert in container

Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Recorded in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, 1998-2005

Disc 1.

Shepherd's carol / Bob Chilcott (3:25) -- On Christmas Day to my heart / Richard Rodney Bennett (4:06) -- God would be born in thee / Judith Bingham (4:24) -- Bogoróditse dyévo / Arvo Pärt 1:14) -- Angels / Jonathan Harvey (4:46) -- In wintertime : op. 103 / Lennox Berkeley (2:44) -- Christmas carol / Robin Holloway (5:35) -- Three kings / Jonathan Dove (4:03) -- What sweeter music / John Rutter (4:47) -- A gathering / John Casken 5:36) -- Illuminare, Jerusalem / Judith Weir (2:22) -- One star, at last / Peter Maxwell Davies (3:16) -- Carol for St. Steven / Alexander Goehr (4:08) -- Birthday of thy King / Peter Sculthorpe (2:42) -- Winter solstice carol / Giles Swayne (5:29) .

Disc 2.

Seinte Mari moder milde / James MacMillan (7:35) -- Gleam / Harrison Birtwistle (6:15) -- Christo paremus cantica / Diana Burrell (3:17) -- Spring in winter / John Woolrich (2:16) -- Fayrfax carol / Thomas Adès (4:35) -- Swetė Jesu / Nicholas Maw (3:39) -- Pilgrim Jesus / Stephen Paulus (4:50)