The highly regarded Cardiff Polyphonic Choir and Orchestra perform the first commercial recording of Geoffrey Bush’s beautiful work “A Christmas Cantata”. This popular work features well-known carols in a setting for choir with string orchestra and oboe obbligato. Additional Christmas music concludes the album.
1 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: Lullay, Jesu, Lullay
2 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: The First Good Joy That Mary Had
3 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: When Jesus Christ Was Four Years Old
4 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep
5 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: Rejoice O Make We Merry, Both More & Less
6 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: I Sing of a Maiden
7 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: By By Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child
8 A Christmas Cantata, for Voice, Choir, Oboe & Orchestra: I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing in / Epilogue
9 Shiao Bao-Bao, for Choir
10 The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came, Carol for Choir
11 Ar Gyfer Heddiw’r Bore, Carol for Choir
12 Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
13 Tua Bethlehem Dref
14 As I Outrode This Enderes Night, for Choir
15 Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)