We wish you a merry Christmas - John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia

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'We wish you a merry Christmas'
From ‘The John Rutter Christmas Album’
The definitive collection of John Rutter carols and arrangements

Composer John Rutter (arr.)
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
Orchestra City of London Sinfonia

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We wish you a merry Christmas
During the 1970s and 80s, John Rutter wrote for the renowned vocal ensemble The King's Singers. One minor fruit of this happy association was an arrangement of 'We wish you a merry Christmas', for use as a final encore at Christmas concerts when the audience simply refused to go home. He later adapted it for mixed choir.

LYRICS:
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year.

Good tidings we bring to you and your kin:
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year.

Now bring us some figgy pudding . . .
And bring some out here.

For we all like figgy pudding . . .
So bring some out here.

And we won’t go till we’ve got some . . .
So bring some out here.

We wish you a merry Christmas . . .
And a happy New Year.

(English traditional carol, arranged by John Rutter)

The John Rutter Christmas Album
This album gathers together most of the carols composed by John Rutter over the years, plus a sprinkling of Rutter arrangements of traditional carols, grouped to form a programme which narrates, reflects upon, and celebrates the Christmas story.

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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