Christmas at St John's
Christmas at St John's

Director of Music:
George GuestOrgan Scholar:
Stephen CleoburyRelease date:
February 1974Record label:
ArgoCatalogue number:
Argo ZRG 739This disc is available as part of the Decca Classics Box Set of George Guest's recordings with St John's. More information on the set is available here.
Track list
- Ding dong! merrily on high (arr. C. Wood)
- O little town of Bethlehem (arr. Armstrong)
- Born on earth (arr. Rutter)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas (arr. Rutter)
- Up, good Christen folk (arr. G. R. Woodward)
- Silent night (Gruber, arr. Ridout)
- Good King Wenceslas (Trad. English) (Richard Stuart: Bass, Simon Keenlyside: Treble)
- While shepherd's watched (Este's Psalter, 1592)
- God rest you merry, gentlemen (arr. Willcocks)
- The Holly and the Ivy (arr. H. Walford Davies) (Robert King and Mark Tinkler: Trebles, Anthony Dawson, Hugh Hetherington and William Kendall: Tenors)
- Away in a manger (arr. Willcocks) (Mark Tinkler: Treble)
- Shepherd's Pipe Carol (John Rutter)
- The First Nowell (arr. Willcocks)
- I saw three ships (arr. Willcocks)
- Suo-gân (arr. George Guest)
- Hark, the herald-angels sing (arr. Willcocks)
The contribution of Andrew Nethsingha and St John's College, Cambridge to the Evensong tradition - both in the chapel and on record - deserves great praise
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