John Rutter, Robert Quinney, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & City of London Sinfonia - What sweeter music Lyrics

Lyrics What sweeter music - City of London Sinfonia , Choir of King's College, Cambridge , John Rutter



What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heavenly King?
Awake the voice, awake the string
Dark and dull night, fly hence away
And give the honour to this day
That sees December turned to May
That sees December turned to May
Why does the chilling winter′s morn
Smile like a field beset with corn?
Or smell like a meadow newly-shorn
Thus, on the sudden come and see
The cause, why things thus fragrant be
'Tis He is born, whose quickening birth
Gives life and lustre, public mirth
To Heaven and the under earth
We see Him come, and know him ours
Who with His sunshine and His showers
Turns all the patient ground to flowers
Turns all the patient ground to flowers
The darling of the world is come
And fit it is, we find a room
To welcome Him, to welcome Him
And all of heart of all the house here is the heart
Which we will give Him and bequeath
This holly and this ivy wreath
To do Him honour, who′s our King
And Lord of all this revelling
What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heavenly King?
The birth of this our heavenly King?



Writer(s): John Rutter, Robert Henich


John Rutter, Robert Quinney, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & City of London Sinfonia - Christmas At King's
Album Christmas At King's
date of release
01-12-2008

1 Gauntlett / Arr. Mann & Willcocks: "Once in Royal David's City"
2 Wood: Ding Dong Merrily on High
3 Traditional / & Arr. Willcocks: "O Come, all ye faithful"
4 Traditional / Arr. Davies: "The holly and the ivy"
5 Cummings & Mendelssohn: "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" (After Mendelssohn's Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4)
6 Gruber / Arr. Willcocks: "Silent night"
7 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "While shepherds watched their flocks"
8 In the bleak mid-winter
9 God rest you merry, gentlemen
10 Tavener: The Lamb
11 Traditional / Arr. Ledger: Angels from the Realms of Glory
12 Traditional: "A great and Mighty wonder"
13 Adam lay ybounden
14 Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8: No. 3, The Kings
15 Traditional / Arr. Pettman: "I saw a maiden"
16 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?
17 Traditional: "Quem pastores laudavere"
18 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day"
19 A maiden most gentle
20 Traditional: "A spotless rose"
21 Traditional / Arr. Rutter: Sans Day Carol
22 I wonder as I wander
23 The Cherry Tree Carol
24 Gabriel's Message
25 Traditional / Arr. Holst: "Personent hodie"
26 Traditional / Arr. Stainer & Ledger: "The first nowell"
27 In Dulci Jubilo.
28 Traditional / Arr. Ledger: "O Little town of Bethlehem"
29 I saw three ships
30 Goss / Arr. Willcocks: See Amid the Winter's Snow
31 Traditional / Arr. Rutter: "Joy to the world!"
32 Traditional / Arr. Sullivan: "It came upon the midnight clear"
33 Kirkpatrick / Arr. Ledger: "Away in a manger"
34 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "On Christmas night all Christians sing"
35 Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2008 Version)
36 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "O Come, O come, Emmanuel"
37 Terry: Myn Lyking
38 Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
39 Dormi, Jesu
40 A Tender Shoot
41 Riu, riu, chiu
42 O Jesulein süss, BWV 493
43 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: How Far is It to Bethlehem?
44 The Truth from Above
45 Up! good Christen folk, and listen (tune from Piae Cantiones, 1582)
46 Traditional: What Child Is This
47 What sweeter music
48 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: The Infant King
49 A child is born in Bethlehem [Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem] - 1991 Remastered Version
50 Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: "Of the father's heart begotten"
51 Organ: In dulci jubilo BWV729



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