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In the Bleak Midwinter

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Catalogue Number: HAVPCD163
Category: Choral music.
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St Mary’s Cathedral is the only cathedral in Scotland to maintain a fully choral foundation, singing daily services as in English cathedrals, and similar in size to the foundations which existed at the medieval Cathedral of St Andrews and the Chapel of Holyrood before the Reformation.

The choir consists of 18 treble choristers, boys and girls (the first cathedral in the British Isles to offer scholarships to girls as well as to boys), and 12 lay clerks. The choristers receive scholarships to attend St Mary’s Music School, the only choir school in Scotland; some of the lay clerks hold choral scholarships at Edinburgh University.

The Master of the Music, Timothy Byram-Wigfield, received his first music training as a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, and studied at Oundle School and the Royal College of Music before being appointed organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1985 he took up the post of Sub Organist at Winchester Cathedral, then came to Edinburgh in 1991 at the age of only 27.

Track Duration Title Composer
1 03:13 Once in royal David’s city arr. D Willcocks
2 04:27 in the bleak midwinter Harold Darke
3 01:14 Up good Christen folk arr. Wood
4 02:23 Tomorrow shall be my dancing day John Gardner
5 03:02 Of the Father’s heart begotten arr. Willcocks
6 02:49 A spotless rose Herbert Howells
7 03:16 The Lord at first did Adam make arr. Backhouse
8 03:03 God rest you merry, gentlemen arr. Willcocks
9 03:14 Christmas Day David Sanger
10 04:46 Noël nouvelet arr. Jackson
11 01:57 Ding dong! merrily on high arr.Wood
12 02:42 O little town of Bethlehem arr. Armstrong
13 03:31 Coventry Carol arr. Grier
14 03:54 Bethlehem Down Peter Warloock
15 02:44 O come, all ye faithful arr. Willcocks
16 02:39 Away in a manger arr. Willcocks
17 01:56 Zither Carol arr. Sergeant
18 03:10 Hark! the herald angels sing arr.Willcocks

Additional information

Location

St Mary’s Cathedral

Soloist

Peter Backhouse (Organ)

Recorded

1993

Tracks

18

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