Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia & Daniel Hyde - All the Stars Looked Down: A John Rutter Celebration (2025) [Hi-Res]

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Title: All the Stars Looked Down: A John Rutter Celebration
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: King’s College, Cambridge
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-192kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:10:33
Total Size: 288 MB / 2.60 GB
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Tracklist:

1. Mendelssohn: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Arr. Sir David Willcocks) (4:22)
2. Ledger: A Spotless Rose (2:03)
3. Rutter: All Bells in Paradise (5:08)
4. Traditional: Sussex Carol (Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Orch. Daniel Hyde) (2:19)
5. Adam: O Holy Night (Arr. Sir John Rutter) (6:02)
6. Davies: O Little Town of Bethlehem (Orch. Sir Stephen Cleobury and Daniel Hyde) (4:58)
7. Rutter: Five Meditations for Orchestra: III. Candlelight (4:19)
8. Traditional: Sans Day Carol (Arr. Sir John Rutter) (3:16)
9. Anonymous: Unto Us is Born a Son (Arr. Sir David Willcocks) (2:22)
10. Rutter: Five Meditations for Orchestra: I. What Sweeter Music (4:23)
11. Traditional: Hereford Carol (Arr. Christopher Robinson, Orch. Sir John Rutter) (3:12)
12. Traditional: Child in a Manger (Arr. Sir John Rutter) (2:34)
13. Rutter: Dormi, Jesu (5:09)
14. Rutter: Nativity Carol (4:32)
15. Rutter: All the Stars Looked Down (3:47)
16. Gruber: Silent Night (Arr. Sir John Rutter) (4:02)
17. Traditional: Away in a Manger (Arr. David Hill) (3:04)
18. Wade: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Arr. Sir David Willcocks) (5:06)

Following the success of their 2023 digital EP, Rutter Orchestral Carols, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, releases a new album for Christmas 2025, featuring a selection of arrangements and original works for choir and orchestra under the direction of Daniel Hyde.

Recorded in the beloved Chapel of King’s College Cambridge, All the Stars Looked Down sees the choir performing alongside Britten Sinfonia once again, and includes beautiful orchestral arrangements of Christmas carols by John Rutter alongside a selection of both well-loved and lesser-known carols by the great choral composers who have influenced him, including Philip Ledger, David Willcocks and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Woven throughout the album are works that are especially meaningful to the Choir and its community and the album’s title track, John Rutter’s All the Stars Looked Down, is dedicated to the late Sir Stephen Cleobury