Personent Hodie: Music for Christmas

Format: CD
Label: Herald
Release date: November 2010
Catalogue no: HAVPCD362
Available from: Europadisc

The Christmas message is beautifully sung by the choir which serves the monastic community of St Benedict in Ealing. This collection contains favourites such as Coventry Carol and Away in a Manger as well as more unusual pieces, such as Bethlehem Down, Berkeley’s I Sing of a Maiden and Britten’s Hymn to the Virgin. (Synopsis by Europadisc)

• I Sing of a Maiden

Performed by the Ealing Abbey Choir & Christopher Eastwood (conductor)