{"product_id":"song-for-snow-a-cambridge-christmas-cd","title":"Song for Snow - A Cambridge Christmas: CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s that time of year… A thoughtful yet enchanting album of 20th- and 21st-century Christmas carols from The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and director Steven Grahl affirms this most vibrant of seasonal traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParticularly welcome is an emphasis on recent and contemporary women composers from across the choral world, including Florence Price, Sally Beamish, Elizabeth Poston, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Lucy Walker and Errollyn Wallen, whose music dovetails with that of John Rutter, Herbert Howells, Gustav Holst, Piers Connor Kennedy and Kenneth Leighton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose newer carols sit among familiar old friends such as ‘Stille Nacht’, ‘Carol of the Bells’ and ‘In dulci jubilo’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA modern folk classic is found in ‘The truth from above’, which Vaughan Williams transcribed directly from a melody sung to him by a local farmworker as he wandered the England looking for the nation’s lost melodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA similar story from the other side of the Atlantic pertains to the delicate tune of ‘I wonder as I wander’, which came to the world’s attention via a collector of folk songs in the Appalachian mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRanked by Gramophone as among the top five choirs in the world, The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge has long been seen as the finest of the world’s mixed-voice student ensembles. Their most recent album of Finzi choral music (released June 2026) was an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVaughan Williams: The Truth Sent from Above\u003cbr\u003ePraetorius, J. Sandström: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen\u003cbr\u003eFrances-Hoad: Bogoroditse Devo\u003cbr\u003eNiles: I Wonder as I Wander (Arr. Carter)\u003cbr\u003eHolst: In the Bleak Midwinter\u003cbr\u003eTavener: The Lamb\u003cbr\u003eGruber: Stille Nacht\u003cbr\u003eLeontovych: Carol Of The Bells\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous: O Leave Your Sheep (Arr. Leighton)\u003cbr\u003ePrice: Song for Snow\u003cbr\u003eHowells: Long, Long Ago\u003cbr\u003eBeamish: In the Stillness\u003cbr\u003eRutter: Candlelight Carol\u003cbr\u003ePott: Balulalow\u003cbr\u003eWallen: Peace on Earth\u003cbr\u003eKennedy: Hym Worship We Now Borne so Fre\u003cbr\u003ePoston: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous: In dulci jubilo (Arr. Pearsall)\u003cbr\u003eL. Walker: Away in a Manger\u003cbr\u003eFrances-Hoad: Good Day, Sir Christemas!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Steven Grahl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57500828926332,"sku":"CDA68493","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/0410\/8860\/files\/cambridge.png?v=1790324764","url":"https:\/\/store.deccaclassics.com\/products\/song-for-snow-a-cambridge-christmas-cd","provider":"Decca Classics ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}