Chariots: and Other Christmas Songs & Carols for Voices in Harmony

John Kirkpatrick steps aside from his better known activities on the English folk scene to reveal a set of 16 carols and songs specially arranged for harmony singing, and a taste of what goes on in his Castle Carols project in South Shropshire. Mostly for a conventional four part ensemble, but with heavy hints that you could have mixed male and female voices on any of the lines, here you have original JK compositions, old tunes with new words, new tunes to old words, and a handful of pieces where neither the words nor harmonies are quite as you know them. Add a few seasonal rounds, and you’ll have more than enough to fill the twelve days with unbridled musical joy. Songs include: Chariots (5-parts), Chariots (3-parts), Joy And Jubilation, Carolling At Christmas, Christmas Is Come, The Angel Gabriel, Brightest and Best, Laid In A Manger, Fill Every Chorus With Joy, Sing Praise, Shepherds In Their Field Abiding, Emmanuel, The Trees Are All Bare, Stir The Fire, Annimesto, The Holly And The Ivy, The Twelve Days of Christmas.