CLASSIC AL A UDI O CORO THE SIXTEEN THE SIXTEEN SONG OF THE NATIVITY COR16146 | 828021614620 1 CD | SRP: US $18.99 CA $22.99 COMPOSER: Alan Bullard • Bob Chilcott • Henry Walford Davies • John Gardner • John Ireland • Gabriel Jackson • Morten Lauridsen • James MacMillan • Cecilia McDowall • Boris Ord • Alec Roth • John Rutter • Howard Skempton • Will Todd • Peter Warlock ARTIST: The Sixteen • Harry Christophers (conductor) TRACK LIST: 01. Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium 02. Skempton: Adam Lay Ybounden 03. Traditional: The Saviour’s work 04. Jackson: The Christ-Child 05. Warlock: Bethlehem Down 06. Traditional: A Gallery Carol 07. Todd: My Lord Has Come 08. Ireland: The Holy Boy 09. Walford Davies: O Little Town of Bethlehem 10. Gardner: When Christ was Born of Mary Free 11. McDowall: Now May We Singen 12. Traditional: Children’s Song of the Nativity 13. Ord: Adam Lay Ybounden 14. Roth: Song of the Shepherds 15. Traditional: Somerset Carol 16. Chilcott: The Shepherd’s Carol 17. Traditional: This Endris Night 18. Rutter: There Is a Flower 19. Traditional: Christmas Eve 20. Bullard: And All the Stars Looked Down 21. Traditional: Dutch Carol 22. MacMillan: O Radiant Dawn • On this release, the Sixteen contrasts the dramatic intensity of music by some of today’s most admired composers with such traditional and modern carols as Boris Ord’s Adam Lay Ybounden and Henry Walford Davis’ version of O Little Town of Bethlehem. • Much-loved classics appear on this album along with many others that, with time, will become classics. • Every work on this album captures the joy and sincerity of the most wonderful of seasons. The album provides a perfect peaceful and uplifting antidote to the hectic preChristmas rush. ALSO AVAILABLE: COR16004 828021600425 COR16027 828021602726 COR16136 828021613623 COR16094 828021609497 DISTRIBUTED BY RELEASE DATE: 10/14/16 NAXOS OF AMERICA | NAXOS OF CANADA | NEW RELEASE 38