The choir at Trinity Church, Wall Street, led by Owen Burdick has here recorded a truly delightful disc of Christmas favorites, book-ended by the traditional Once in Royal David's City and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - as a nod to the famous Kings College program of lessons and Carols - and filled with choral music ranging from the familiar to the lesser-known. This recording follows their tremendously successful recording of Handel's Messiah released two years ago and positively reviewed in The New York Times and Early Music America and called by American Record Guide, an "excellent addition to the catalog". Here again, Burdick and Trinity Church offers Christmas gems all recorded in the glorious acoustic of that historic space. Trinity Church holds a special place in the history of Christmas music, having been the site of the New World premiers of both the Messiah and the Christmas carol Silent Night included here.

Tracklist:

Once in Royal David's City
Now the holly bears a berry (The St. Day Carol) (Cornish)
Three Kings, The
I Sing of a Maiden for 2 voices & piano
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
Holly and the Ivy, The (English)
In the Bleak Midwinter
I Wonder As I Wander (American)
Adam Lay Y-Bounden, carol
O Little Town of Bethlehem
I Saw Three Ships
In dulci jubilo (Pi‘ Cantiones)
Away in a manger (Tune: Cradle Song) (New English Hymnal 22)
Of the Father's heart begotten (A Christmas Procession)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (W zlobie lezy)
Gabriel's Message (Basque)
Lullay my liking, for soprano & chorus, Op. 34/2, H. 129
Resonet in Laudibus (Piae Cantiones)
Angels From the Realms Of Glory
Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night")
Babe Is Born, for chorus & organ, Op. 55, A
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Men

UPC: 747313588626
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 10.16.01
Format: CD

Stephan Adams - Christmas at Trinity (CD)