Bring A Torch
Bring A Torch
Bring A Torch, Christmas Organ Favorites includes what we think is the very best Christmas music ever written. It was recorded on a truly fantastic organ in Champaign, Illinois that my dear friend John-Paul Buzard built way back in 1991. It’s modeled after the famous organ at Kings College, Cambridge, and it’s in an absolutely beautiful stone chapel.
What's really important is that ALL of the proceeds of this CD will go directly towards the St. Gregory's Choir tour to Scotland in the summer of 2014 and will defray the cost for each chorister.
When I was a choirboy, my choir spent a week serving as the Choir-in-Residence at Hereford Cathedral in Scotland and it changed my life. How I wanted to stay there forever and write music! To say that this experience had a profound effect on my adult life is an understatement.
I want so much for the choristers from St. George’s Episcopal Church to have an experience of similar magnitude. Therefore, this CD!
1. Prelude on ‘God rest you merry, gentlemen’ – John Rutter
2. Good King Wenceslas –arr. Paul Bryan
3. Angels We Have Heard on High – arr. Keith Chapman *
4. Prelude on ‘Greensleeves’ – Richard Purvis+
5. Ding Dong! Merrily on High – arr. Christopher Tambling
6. The Coventry Carol- arr. Richard Gore
7. Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – arr. Keith Chapman*
8. Chorale Prelude on ‘In dulci jubilo’- J. S. Bach
9. Infant Holy- arr. Keith Chapman*
10. Prelude on ‘The holly and the ivy’- Herbert Sumsion
11. Postlude on ‘Mendelssohn’ (‘Hark the herald-angels sing’) – arr. David Willcocks
12. The Holy Boy - John Ireland
13. Away in a Manger - arr. Keith Chapman*
14. Noël Suisse - Louis-Claude Daquin
15. Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella - Arr. Keith Chapman*
Copyright Information: *1976 McAfee Music Corporation +1944 MCA Music All Copyrights Secured. Used by Permission
