John Rutter, Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia - Christmas Night - Carols of the Nativity

The theme of this album is the birth of Christ, reflected in the words and music of twenty-two carols spanning more than six centuries. Some of these carols have long been widely known and loved; others have become so thanks to the annual Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge.

But all of them focus on the central event of the Christmas story - the birth at Bethlehem - and on the characters in that story: the angels, the shepherds, the wise men, and the mother with her child. Among the many original works on the disc are Rutter's own There is a Flower and Nativity Carol.