King’s College Cambridge Choir: The Complete Argo Recordings

CD 1

GIBBONS: The First Song of Moses; Second Preces and Proper Psalm for Whitsunday; Voluntary I; Te Deum; Voluntary II; Jubilate; This is the Record of John; See, See, The Word is Incarnate; Glorious and Powerful God

CD 2

A Festival of Lessons & Carols (1958)

Once in Royal David’s City; BACH: And There Were Shepherds In The Same Country, Abiding In The Field; ORD: Adam Lay Ybounden; I Saw Three Ships; Gabriel’s Message; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Sussex Carol; In Dulci Jubilo; Away in a Manger; While Shepherds Watched; O Come All Ye Faithful; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Rejoice And Be Merry; Away in a Manger; While Shepherds Watched; Sussex Carol; Rocking Carol; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

CD 3

BYRD: Mass for Five Voices; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Ave Verum Corpus

CD 4

J.S. BACH: Jesu Priceless Treasure BWV 227; O Jesu So Meek BWV 493; Jesus is this Dark World’s Light BWV 474; Lord Pour Not Thy Vengeance BWV 463; Now is the Mournful Time BWV 450; It is Finished BWV 458; Breath of God BWV 445; God Liveth Still BWV 461 HYMNS: There is a Green Hill Far Away; According to thy Gracious Word; Drop Drop Slow Tears; When I Survey the Wondrous Cross; Glory Be To Jesus; Abide With Me; The Day Though Gavest, Lord, Is Ended FILITZ: Holy Father Cheer Our Way; TALLIS: Glory to Thee My God This Night

CD 5

Procession with Carols

BRAHMS: Es ist ein Ros, entsprungen; PALESTRINA: I Look From Afar; PRAETORIUS: Veni, Redemtor gentium; ‘Twas In The Year That King Uzziah Died; Hark! A Thrilling Voice Is Sounding; HOWELLS: A Spotless Rose; HADLEY: I Sing of a Maiden; RAVENSCROFT: Remember, O Thou Man; COFFIN: On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry; The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came; NICOLAI: Wachet Auf!; King Jesus Hath a Garden; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; The Blessed Son of God; O Come, O Come Emmanuel; The Holly and the Ivy; The Cherry Tree Carol; Unto Us Is Born A Son; The First Nowell; Past Three O’Clock

CD 6

TAVERNER: Leroy Kyrie; Western Wind Mass; Dum transisset Sabbatum; Christe Jesu pastor bone; Mater Christi; CROFT: The Burial Service

CD 7-8

J.S. BACH: St. John Passion

Sir Peter Pears; David Ward; Elizabeth Harwood; Lindsay Heather; Alexander Young; Brian Etheridge; Hervey Alan; Helen Watts; Philomusica of London; Sir David Willcocks

CD 9

HAYDN: Nelson Mass

Sylvia Stahlman; Helen Watts; Wilfred Brown; Tom Krause; Simon Preston; London Symphony Orchestra; David Willcocks

CD 10

On Christmas Night

O Come All Ye Faithful; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Blessed Be That Maid Mary; Lute-book Lullaby; Ding Dong! Merrily on High; Myn Lyking; Personent Hodie; See Amid The Winter’s Snow; In The Bleak Midwinter; Coventry Carol; Shepherds in the Field Abiding; The Infant King; King Jesus Hath A Garden; Christ Was Born on Christmas Day JOUBERT: Torches; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols (w. Hervey Alan & LSO); WARLOCK: Balulalow; TCHAIKOVSKY: Legenda (The Crown of Roses)

CD 11

BYRD: Mass in 3 parts; Mass in 4 parts

CD 12

Evensong for Ash Wednesday (1963)

FARRANT: Hide Not Thou Thy Face From Us, O Lord; Sentences; BYRD: Preces and Responses; CAMIDGE, PRING; Psalm 143; Psalm 130; Hear Us, O Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us; CAUSTUN: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; The Apostles Creed; BYRD: The Lesser Litany; The Lord’s Prayer; BYRD: Versicles and Responses; Collects; PURCELL: Hear my Prayer; ALLEGRI: Miserere (w. Roy Goodman)

CD 13

HANDEL: Coronation Anthems

Zadok the Priest; My Heart is Inditing; Let They Hand Be Strengthened; The King Shall Rejoice

CD 14

PALESTRINA: Stabat Mater; Hodie Beata Virgo; Senex Puerum Portabat; Magnificat Primi Toni; Litaniae de Beata Virgine Maria

CD 15

Festival of Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve 1964

Once in Royal David’s City; Corde Natus Ex Parentis; MATHIAS: Wassail Carol; WISHART: Alleluya, A New Work is Come on Hand; There Is No Rose of Such Virtu; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; HOLST: Lullay My Liking; FRICKER: A Babe is Born; MENDELSSOHN: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; PETTMAN: O Babe Divine; O Come All Ye Faithful

CD 16

TALLIS: In Manus Tuas; In Ieiunio et Fletu; Spem in Alium; Te Lucis ante Terminum; Ecce Tempus Idoneum; Veni Redemptor Gentium; O Nata Lux; Salvator Mundi; Derelinguat Impius

CD 17

TALLIS: Lamentations of Jeremiah; Videte Miraculum; Organ Lesson; Sancte Deus

CD 18

HANDEL: Chandos Anthems I

O Praise the Lord With One Consent; Let God Arise

CD 19

VIVALDI: Gloria; PERGOLESI: Magnificat

CD 20

HOWELLS: Te Deum; Jubilate; “Lo The Poor Crieth”; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis [‘Collegium Regale’]; Motet on the Death of President Kennedy; “Here is the Little Door”; “Sing Lullaby”; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis [St Paul’s Service]; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Shakespeare Songs; The Turtle Dove (w. Lindsay Heather); Two Elizabethan Part Songs; BRITTEN: Voices for Today

CD 21

HANDEL: Chandos Anthems II

The Lord is My Light; As Pants the Hart

CD 22

HANDEL: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

CD 23 : Masses

TYE: Mass – “Euge Bone”; Mass – “Western Wind”

CD 24

HANDEL: Chandos Anthems III

I Will Magnify Thee, O God; In the Lord I Put My Trust

CD 25

BLOW: Coronation Anthem

I was Glad; God Spake Sometimes in Visions; Cry Aloud and Spare Not; O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song; Blessed is the Man That Hath Not Walked

(w. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields)

CD 26

A Festival of Lessons & Carols 1954 (Ord)

Once In Royal David’s City; J.S. BACH: And There Were Shepherds; Ding Dong, Ding; Flos de Radice Jesse; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; In Dulci Jubilo; Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary; A Virgin Most Pure; While Shepherds Watched; The Shepherd’s Cradle Song; CORNELIUS: The Three Kings; The Infant King; O Come All Ye Faithful

CD 27

GIBBONS: Anthems & Voluntaries (Ord)

Veni Creator; First Preces; Psalm 145; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; O God, The King of Glory; Almighty and Everlasting God; O Lord In Thy Wrath Rebuke Me Not; Hosannah To The Song of David; O Lord Increase My Faith; O Clap Your Hands; God IS Gone Up

CD 28

Evensong (Ord)

BATTEN: O Praise the Lord; SMITH: Responses; Psalm 126; Psalm 127; Psalm 128; Psalm 129; STANFORD: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; HADLEY: My Beloved Spake; NAYLOR: Prayers & Responses; JACKSON: Toccata in B Minor

CD 29

An Easter Mattins (Ord)

This Joyful Eastertide; TOMKINS: Preces; HOWELLS: Te Deum; Jubilate; TOMKINS: Responses; STONE: Our Father; BYRD: Haec Dies Motet; GAUNTLETT: Jesus Lives, No Longer Now Can Thy Terrors, Death, Appal Us