Following the success of their 2023 digital EP, Rutter Orchestral Carols, the Choir of Kings 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 Kings College Cambridge, All the Stars Looked Down sees the choir performing alongside Britten Sinfonia once again, and includes beautiful orchestral arrangements of Christmas carols by John Rutter alongside a selection of both well-loved and lesser-known carols by the great choral composers who have influenced him, including Philip Ledger, David Willcocks and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Woven throughout the album are works that are especially meaningful to the Choir and it’s community and the albums title track, John Rutters All the Stars Looked Down, is dedicated to the late Sir Stephen Cleobury.

Tracklist:

1. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
2. Ledger: A Spotless Rose
3. Rutter: All Bells in Paradise
4. Sussex Carol
5. O Holy Night
6. O Little Town of Bethlehem
7. Rutter: Five Meditations for Orchestra: III. Candlelight
8. Sans Day Carol
9. Willcocks: Unto Us Is Born a Son
10. Rutter: Five Meditations for Orchestra:
11. What Sweeter Musi
12. Hereford Carol
13. Child in a Manger
14. Rutter: Dormi, Jesu
15. Rutter: Nativity Carol
16. Rutter: All the Stars Looked Down
17. Silent Night
18. Away in a Manger
19. O Come, All Ye Faithful

UPC: 822231707523
Label: King’s College
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: CD