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While shepherds watched - Christmas Music from English Parish Churches and Chapels, 1740-1830

CDH5325

DDD
Stereo
REISSUE

Playing time: 67'33"
Tracks: 15
Booklet pages: 12
© 1996, 2008 Hyperion Records Ltd
Reviewer: Howard Smith
Review of While shepherds watched - Christmas Music from English Parish Churches and Chapels, 1740-1830 published on 3 December 2009

Listen: John Foster: While shepherds watched their flocks by night (track 15, 3:42-4:39)

Psalmody
The Parley of Instruments
Peter Holman, director

1 Michael Beesly (born 1700): While shepherds watched their flocks by night
2 Anonymous, arranged by Caleb Ashworth (1722-1775): Le an anthem of praise
3 John Christopher Smith (1712-1795): While shepherds watched their flocks by night
4 Peter Hellendaal (1721-1799): Pastorale (Concerto in E flat, Op 3 No 4)
5 Anonymous, arranged by Thomas Butts: Hark! how all the welkin rings
6 Anonymous, arranged by Thomas Butts: Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber
7 Joseph Key (died 1784): As shepherds watched their fleecy care
8 Samuel Arnold (1740-1802): Hark! the herald angels sing
9 Thomas Clark (1775-1859): While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Cranbrook)
10 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) arranged by Edward Miller (1735-1807): Hark! the herald angels sing (Georgia)
11 Thomas Jarman (1776-1861): There were shepherds abiding in the field
12 Samuel Wesley (1766-1837): Rondo on 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'
13 William Matthews (1759-1830): Angels from the realms of glory
14 George Frideric Handel arranged by Thomas Taylor: Hymning seraphs wake the morning
15 John Foster (1762-1822): While shepherds watched their flocks by night

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