Each year at Christmas, Gloriæ Dei Cantores celebrates the "dawn of redeeming grace" with a traditional candlelit service of readings and carols, retelling the stories of Christ's birth. As you listen to these carols and stories, may your heart fill with gratitude and goodwill. Gloriæ Dei Cantores offers this recording with a prayer that the light of the season brings you renewed joy and a fresh sense of wonder!

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Track 4	O Prince of Peace	Gerald Near
Track 7	Shall I Tell You	Harold Stover
Track 8	A Child's Welcome	David Campbell
Track 9	Carol of the Star	arr. June Nixon
Track 11	Willow Carol	Bruce Campbell
Track 12	On Christmas Day	arr. Fred Gramann
Track 15	In the Bleak Midwinter	arr. Robert Lau
Track21-24	Missa ad Praesepe	George Malcolm

Critical Acclaim

 

• “Gloriæ Dei Cantores collaborated with The Boston Pops on ten Holiday Tours. “One of the finest crafted, best blended, and innately musical ensembles with which I have had the pleasure to work.”
  Keith Lockhart, Conductor BOSTON POPS

 
 

• “One of North America’s...finest choirs”
  Gramophone

• “They sing with absolute fluency and authority”
  Gramophone

 
 

• “Exquisite singing – undoubtedly one of the premier choral ensembles in the world.”
  President, American Classical Music Hall of Fame

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