One Star, At Last, A Selection of Carols of Our Time

When an ensemble like the BBC Singers, renowned for its commitment to the music of our own time, sets out to record a Christmas album you can be sure that the repertoire will include material rather different from the usual run of popular standards and arrangements!

One star at last includes eight new carols (six of them specially-commissioned by BBC Radio 3), several premiere recordings, and a selection of music - serious and light-hearted, contemplative and joyful - by some of the leading British, European and North American choral composers of the day. 

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Nowell sing we now
 
03:56
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Three carols
From lands that see the sun arise
 
02:40
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Three carols
Make we joy
 
02:36
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Three carols
There is no rose of such virtue
 
04:38
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I wonder as I wander
 
02:15
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Illuminare, Jerusalem
 
02:28
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The shepherd's gift
 
03:48
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Corpus Christi carol
 
03:44
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The fayrfax carol
 
04:31
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The shepherds sing
 
03:15
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Nativitas
 
02:33
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Seinte Mari moder milde
 
07:12
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Today the Virgin
 
03:01
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Oczekiwanie (Wachtend)
 
09:09
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Deep in the fading leaves of night
 
03:42
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One star, at last
 
03:33
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O magnum mysterium
 
02:17
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Sleep, little Jesus, sleep
 
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Romance of the angels
 
04:32
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Mrs Beeton's Christmas plum pudding (average cost: 3 shillings and 6d)
 
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