“Once Were Angels : Christmas” Something different & wonderfully enjoyable! The new Boy Trebles compilation awaited by collectors from the 25-year period covered by Abbey Label. Once were Angels (4040) was a big success and this one is enthusiastically awaited for Xmas 2006. It is much more intimate than a normal carols record and focusses on the purity of sound of the best boy trebles and will serve the thousands also in USA who bought “The Better Land” This is an essential document of British Choir-boy performance style and those unforgettable pure voices captured over the length and breadth of the land by Harry Mudd, MBE Includes 16 page booklet with photographs 24 classic tracks featuring (in order of singers).
CHRISTOPHER HARVEY: The Holly and the Ivy
ANDREW WICKS: Ding Dong Merrily; I saw 3 ships; Silent Night
Quem Pastores (Rutter): Xmas is coming; Lullay, Lulow; Born today is a Holy Child, I got a robe
PAUL DUTTON: Little Road to Bethlehem; Once in Royal David’s City; O Little Town of Bethlehem; I wonder as I wander;
DAVID ELIAS: Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day (Rutter): Blessed Virgin’s Cradle Song:
OWEN PUGH: See amid the winter snow;
JEREMY BOWYER: Rejoice the Lord is King;
MICHAEL CRISWELL: We will rock you; Away in a manger
DANIEL LUDFORD-THOMAS :Walking in the Air; Candlelight Carol
DAVID REES-WILIAMS: King Jesus hath a garden
PETER DAVEY: New Year Carol
IAN COOPER: Sweet baby Sleep