All the Stars Looked Down
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This item will be released 21 November 2025.Daniel Hyde
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Britten Sinfonia
Release date: 21 November 2025
Following the success of their 2023 digital EP, Rutter Orchestral Carols, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, releases a new album for Christmas 2025, featuring a selection of arrangements and original works for choir and orchestra under the direction of Daniel Hyde.
Recorded in the beloved Chapel of King’s College Cambridge, All the Stars Looked Down sees the choir performing with Britten Sinfonia, and includes beautiful orchestral arrangements of Christmas carols by Sir John Rutter alongside a selection of both well-loved and lesser-known
carols by the great choral composers who have influenced Rutter, including Sir Philip Ledger, Sir David Willcocks and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The album’s title track, John Rutter’s All the Stars Looked Down, is dedicated to the late Sir Stephen Cleobury, whose enormous contribution to the Christmas choral legacy is also celebrated on this album.
1. Hark! the herald angels sing | Felix Mendelssohn, arr. Sir David Willcocks
2. A spotless rose | Sir Philip Ledger
3. All bells in paradise | Sir John Rutter
4. Sussex Carol | English traditional, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, orch. Daniel Hyde
5. O Holy Night | Adolphe Adam, arr. Sir John Rutter
6. O little town of Bethlehem | Sir Henry Walford Davies, orch. Sir Stephen Cleobury & Daniel Hyde
7. Five Meditations for Orchestra: III. Candlelight | Sir John Rutter
8. Sans Day Carol | Cornish traditional, arr. Sir John Rutter
9. Unto us is born a son | From ‘Piae Cantiones’, arr. Sir David Willcocks
10. Five Meditations for Orchestra: I. What sweeter music | Sir John Rutter
11. Hereford Carol | Traditional, arr. Christopher Robinson, orch. Sir John Rutter
12. Child in a manger | Traditional, arr. Sir John Rutter
13. Dormi, Jesu | Sir John Rutter
14. Nativity Carol | Sir John Rutter
15. All the stars looked down | Sir John Rutter
16. Silent night | Franz Xaver Gruber, arr. Sir John Rutter
17. Away in a manger | English traditional, arr. David Hill
18. O come, all ye faithful | John Francis Wade, arr. Sir David Willcocks
All tracks were recorded in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, in June 2023 and January 2025.
