Sing, choirs of angels
THE rousing settings of and , without which Christmas would be incomplete, were arranged, with many glorious soaring descants, by David Willcocks, the late green one, as aficionados will know—which was published 60 years ago. Three more followed (orange, blue and red), edited by Sir David with John Rutter (); the pair met at Cambridge in the 1960s and their work—commissioned by Christopher Morris, organist at St George’s, Hanover Square—has been indispensable ever since. A fifth edition, edited by Bob Chilcott and David Blackwell, was published in 2011.
