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A special choral Christmas mix to keep you cool and calm

Rejuvenate body and soul this Christmas with a selection of warm and reflective choral music.

Rejuvenate body and soul this Christmas with a selection of warm and reflective choral music to bring in light and cast out the stresses of the everyday.

Featuring serene and uplifting seasonal favourites for voices alongside glowing textures by Morten Lauridsen, Elizabeth Poston and Harry Burleigh.

Produced by James Taylor and Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds

Release date:

1 hour, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Trad.

    In Dulci Jubilo

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. Music Arranger: Robert Lucas Pearsall.
    • 101 Christmas.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Nata Lux

    Performer: Christian Forshaw. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Trad.

    The Coventry Carol

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow. Music Arranger: Percy Dearmer. Music Arranger: Martin Shaw.
    • Music for Christmas.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 22.
  • Trad.

    My Lord, What a Mornin'

    Music Arranger: Harry Burleigh. Choir: Chattanooga Choral Arts Society. Conductor: Robert Bode.
    • Gothic.
  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Performer: Andrew Fletcher. Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Ex Cathedra.
  • Anon.

    The First Nowell

    Music Arranger: Ola Gjeilo. Choir: Royal Holloway Choir.
    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Ubi Caritas

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Ola Gjeilo.
    • Ola Gjeilo.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Anon.

    Jesu dulcis memoria

    Conductor: John Rutter. Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
    • The Sacred Flame.
    • Collegium.
    • 13.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium!

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Bluebird - Music Of Contemplation.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 18.
  • Mykola Leontovych

    Carol of the Bells

    Choir: The National Academic Choir of Ukraine "Dumka".
    • Melodiya.
  • Peter Warlock

    Bethlehem Down

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Classical Christmas Collection.
    • Signum Records.
    • 26.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If Ye Love Me

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Director: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • The Sound Corporation.
  • Gustav Holst

    In the bleak midwinter

    Composer: Christina Rossetti. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Director: Daniel Hyde. Director: Matthew Martin.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Requiem, Op. 48: 7. In paradisum

    Choir: Orchestre Symphonique de MontrΓ©al Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de MontrΓ©al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • 50 Classical Chillout - by Classic FM.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 14.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre. Lyricist: Edward Esch.
    • Light & Gold.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.
  • Amy Beach

    Peace I Leave with You

    Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.
  • Kim AndrΓ© Arnesen

    Even When He is Silent

    Choir: Cantus. Conductor: Tove Ramlo-Ystad.
    • SPES.
    • 2L.
    • 11.
  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Choir: The Trinity Choir. Conductor: Daniel Taylor. Lyricist: William Blake.
    • The Tree of Life.
    • Sony Classical/Daniel Taylor.
    • 5.
  • Philip Stopford

    Do Not Be Afraid

    Choir: Ecclesium Choir. Conductor: Philip Stopford.
    • Priory Records Ltd.
  • Bob Chilcott

    The Shepherd's Carol

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • A Christmas Festival.
    • Collegium.
    • 3.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Benedictus

    Performer: Christian Forshaw. Ensemble: VOCES8. Lyricist: Trad.. Music Arranger: Thomas Hewitt Jones.
    • Eventide.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Trad.

    Herefordshire Carol (Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams)

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Favourite Carols from King's.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 3.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O magnum mysterium

    Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Conductor: Nicol Matt. Lyricist: Trad..
    • Classical Christmas.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 112.
  • William Byrd

    Miserere mihi, Domine

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • The Deer's Cry.
    • CORO.
    • 6.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media vita

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.
  • Frank Ticheli

    Earth Song

    Ensemble: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • After Silence.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 29.
  • Will Todd

    In This Place

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Will Todd: Lux Et Veritas - Music for Peace and Reflection.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Grandmother Moon

    Composer: Mary Louise Martin. Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 11.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Alleluia

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Water Night.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.
  • John Rutter

    A Choral Amen

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • O Praise the Lord of Heaven.
    • Collegium.
    • 12.