We welcome summer: Christmas in an Australian cathedral

Images of snow and bleak midwinters at Christmas time are foreign to most Australians - we tend to swelter in the languid heat and humidity instead! We Welcome Summer is a choral CD that celebrates an Australian Christmas. Featuring all the choirs of St John's Cathedral, the CD includes arrangements of well-known carols for choir, organ and brass, through to music of Australian composers. This recording reflects something of our two-faceted Australian Christmas.  it includes some of the most beloved of European Christmas music of all time, and places this music beside statements that have specific meaning for Australian Christmas.  this is especially true of some of the wonderful Australian texts recorded here - Nativity, Morning Song of the Christ Child, and what is surely one of the truly great Advent texts, We Welcome Summer. Track Listing 1. Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Mendelssohn (brass Arr. D. Hill) 3:16 2. O Magnum Mysterium - Poulenc 2:54 3. Nativity - Matthew Orlovich 4:12 4. Once In Royal David's City - Gauntlett (brass Arr. David. Hill) 3:41 5. This Christmas Night - Malcolm Williamson 2:46 6. Ave Maria - Tomas Luis De Victoria 2:07 7. This Is the Record of John - Orlando Gibbons (solo: Ron Morris) 4:32 8. In the Splendour of the Dawn - Graeme Morton 3:17 9. O Magnum Mysterium - Daniel Pinkham 3:49 10. Balulalow - Colin Brumby 2:36 11. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Trad English (brass Arr. Graeme Morton) 3:49 12. Ave Maria - Robert Boughen 3:14 13. E'en So Lord Jesus, Quickly Come - Paul Manz 2:26 14. Morning Song of the Christ Child - Peter Sculthorpe 2:38 15. All In a Garden Green - Peter Philips 1:46 16. Laudate Dominum - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (solo: Nicholas Tomkins) 4:00 17. We Welcome Summer - Clare Maclean 5:21 18. O Come All Ye Faithful - Wade (brass Arr. David Hill) Directed by Graeme Morton. Organist Eduarda van Klinken