“Christmas Music”: Liverpool Cathedral 1968 (Ronald Woan)

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Commercial LP recorded in Liverpool Cathedral during the choir’s annual “Recital of Christmas Music” on 21 December 1968 and released on the Abbey label (LPB 696) the following year. With the cathedral choir, directed by Ronald Woan and accompanied by Noel Rawsthorne (organ).

1. Past three o’clock (arr Charles Wood)
2. This is the truth sent from above (arr Ralph Vaughan Williams)
3. Nowell sing we now all and some (John Joubert)
4. Coventry Carol (Kenneth Leighton)
5. Alleluia! a new work is come on hand (Peter Wishart)
6. Up! good Christen folk and listen (arr George Woodward)
7. Patapan (arr Martin Shaw)
8. If you had gone to Bethlehem (B M Simms)
9. Ding, dong, merrily on high (arr Charles Wood)
10. Sing lullaby (arr Edgar Pettman)
11. The angel Gabriel (arr Edgar Pettman)
12. Lulling her child (arr Richard Donovan)
13. Tyrley, tyrlow! about the field (Peter Warlock)
14. Hymn to the Virgin (Benjamin Britten)
15. On this day Earth shall ring (Haldane Stewart)