Carols from King's: Season 2019, Episode 1

2019 - 1: 2019

The traditional celebration of Christmas from the candlelit Chapel of King's College, with the world-famous choir directed for the first time by former King's College Organ Scholar, Daniel Hyde, and a service led by the Dean, the Revd Dr Stephen Cherry, and the Chaplain, the Revd Andrew Hammond. A selection of old and new carols include the Sussex Carol (arrangement by Vaughan Williams), There Is No Rose (Elizabeth Maconchy) and O Holy Night (Adolphe Adam, arrangement by JE West). The Christmas story is told in the words of the King James Bible, with poems by Patrick Carey and Ruth Padel.