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Christmas Carols: festive favourites to keep you cool and calm

Ring in the festive season with this soothing mix of Christmas carols, from old classics to new recordings.

Ring in the festive season with this soothing mix of timeless Christmas carols. Featuring old favourites including Silent Night, Hark the Herald, and O Come all Ye Faithful, and other classics from John Rutter and Bob Chilcott, as well as gorgeous newer recordings from Ola Gjeilo, Philip Stopford and Kerensa Briggs.

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

    Choir: The Oxford Trinity Choir.
    • Christmas Carols - The Collection - (The Best of The Oxford Trinity Choir).
    • Burgess Entertainment Inc.
    • 6.

  • John Rutter

    Candlelight Carol

    Conductor: John Rutter. Ensemble: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.

  • Philip Stopford

    Lully, Lulla, Lullay

    Conductor: David Bannister. Ensemble: The Choir of St John's College, Oxford.
    • News of Great Joy: Christmas from St John's College, Oxford.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 3.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    A Tender Shoot

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • St Paul's Cathedral Choir, Andrew Carwood & Simon Johnson

    O Little Town of Bethlehem

    • Decca.

  • Tenebrae & Nigel Short

    The Shepherd's Carol

    • In Winter's House.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Henry John Gauntlett & Arthur Henry Mann

    Once in Royal David's City

    • Traditional Christmas Carols & Songs - The Essential Collection.
    • Classical Expressions.
    • 16.

  • Tewkesbury Abbey Choir & Andrew Sackett

    Gabriel's Message (Arr. David Willcocks)

    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • The Choir of Royal Holloway

    The First Nowell (Arr. Ola Gjeilo)

    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Trinity Church Choir, New York, Owen Burdick & Philip Ledger

    Sussex Carol "On Christmas Night"

    • Naxos.

  • 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers, James Morgan & Piano Hands

    Good King Wenceslas

    • Carols Revisited - Christmas with the 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter & City of London Sinfonia

    Shepherd's Pipe Carol

    • The John Rutter Christmas Album.
    • Collegium.
    • 11.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury

    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

    • Nine Lessons & Carols.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 10.

  • The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

    O Emmanuel

    • Carol of the Bells.
    • CORO.
    • 27.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & Parker Ramsay

    All Bells in Paradise

    • Favourite Carols from King's.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 23.

  • The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke College Girls' Choir & Anna Lapwood

    The Evening Star

    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 18.

  • The Elora Singers & Noel Edison

    Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

    • The Wonder of Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 17.

  • St Paul's Cathedral Choir

    Away In A Manger

    • The Christmas Angels.
    • Red Cab Records.
    • 3.

  • Choir of St John's College, Oxford & David Bannister

    Nowell and Nowell

    • News of Great Joy: Christmas from St John's College, Oxford.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 2.

  • Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt & Robert Stringer

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    • Celestial Christmas 4: A Special Collection of Seasonal Choral Music.
    • Celestial Harmonies.
    • 5.

  • Tenebrae, Nigel Short & James Sherlock

    Nativity Carol

    • What Sweeter Music: Songs and Carols for Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 17.

  • The Choir of Royal Holloway

    Wintertide Arr. Ola Gjeilo

    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, William Vann, Derek Welton & Iain Burnside

    The Saviour's Love

    • Albion Records.

  • Choir of Westminster Abbey & Simon Preston

    The Holly And The Ivy

    • Choir of Westminster Abbey - Christmas Carols.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.

  • Tenebrae & Nigel Short

    In Winter's House

    • In Winter's House.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • The Oxford Choir & Becky McGlade

    What Child Is This Arr. Becky McGlade

    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Adam Banwell, Joel Williams & Douglas Tang

    I Saw Three Ships Arr. Simon Preston

    • Favourite Carols from King's.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 17.

  • The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke College Girls' Choir & Anna Lapwood

    My Heart, O God

    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Henry Websdale & Stephen Cleobury

    O Holy Night Arr. John Rutter

    • Christmas Carols by King's College Choir.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 13.

  • The Oxford Choir & Bob Chilcott

    It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

    • Oxford University Press Music.

  • Tenebrae

    The Lamb

    • Allegri Miserere.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.

  • Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Orchestra of Clare College, Cambridge & John Rutter

    Ding Dong! Merrily on High

    • Carols From Cambridge: The Very Best Sacred Christmas Carols.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 25.

  • VOCES8

    The Sleeping Child

    • A Choral Christmas.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Elmer Iseler Singers & Lydia Adams

    The Huron Carol

    • CBC.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & Henry Websdale

    O Come, All Ye Faithful

    • A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 29.

  • The Sixteen

    Messiah: Part 1, For unto us a child is born

    • Handel: Messiah.
    • Coro.
    • 12.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, George Hill & D贸nal McCann

    Peace on Earth

    • Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 1.

  • 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers, Piano Hands & James Morgan

    Do they know it's Christmas

    • Carols Revisited - Christmas with the 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • St Paul's Cathedral Choir

    We Three Kings of Orient Are

    • The Christmas Box Set.
    • Future Noise Music Ltd..
    • 24.

  • VOCES8, Barnaby Smith, VOCES8 Foundation Choir & VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra

    Magnificat: II. Shall I Rejoice

    • A Choral Christmas.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • The Oxford Choir & Joanna Forbes

    A Present for the Future

    • Carols for Choirs 6.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
    • 5.

  • The Oxford Trinity Choir

    O, Christmas Tree

    • 100 Christmas Carols & Festive Xmas Hymns - the Very Best Traditional Carols & H.
    • 4:Squared Entertainment.
    • 24.

  • Choir of New College Oxford & Edward Higginbottom

    This is the Truth Sent From Above

    • Traditional & Modern Carols.
    • Regis Records.
    • 16.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & Douglas Tang

    While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

    • Favourite Carols from King's.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 18.

  • City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers

    Silent Night (Arr. John Rutter)

    • The John Rutter Christmas Album.
    • Collegium.
    • 23.

  • The King鈥檚 Singers

    Balulalow

    • Signum Records Ltd.

  • The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, Katy Hill, Alexandra Kidgell, Ben Davies & Tim Jones

    Wassail Song

    • Carol of the Bells.
    • CORO.
    • 14.

  • The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

    Angels From the Realms of Glory

    • A Traditional Christmas Carol Collection from The Sixteen.
    • Coro.
    • 6.

  • The Sixteen, Harry Christophers & Robert Quinney

    As with Gladness Men of Old

    • The Complete Traditional Christmas Carols Collection.
    • CORO.
    • 40.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge & Philip Ledger

    A Spotless Rose (feat. Gareth Morrell)

    • Xmas from King's - Christmas Classics.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.

  • Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury

    Joy to the World

    • Traditional Christmas Carols & Songs - The Essential Collection.
    • Classical Expressions.
    • 11.

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