Once in Royal David's City

Name: Once in Royal David's City
Duration: 1 min 6 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.2	Once in Royal David's City	1:06	Jessye Norman	Christmastide	Jessye Norman	Album	US1987	Philips	420 180-2
1.2	Once in Royal David's City	1:06	Jessye Norman	The Jessye Norman Collection: Christmastide / In the Spirit	Jessye Norman	Album + Compilation	XE2005-09	Philips	475 6398
1.2	Once in Royal David's City	1:06	[anonymous]	Christmastide	Jessye Norman, American Boychoir, New York Choral Society, Empire Chamber Ensemble, Robert De Cormier	Album		Decca Music Group (Not for release label use! See annotation.)

producer:	Donald Fraser (composer and conductor)
choir vocals:	American Boychoir (in 1986) The New York Choral Society (in 1986)
soprano vocals:	Jessye Norman (soprano) (in 1986)
orchestra:	Empire Chamber Ensemble (Empire Ensemble) (in 1986)
conductor:	Robert De Cormier (American composer and conductor) (in 1986)
arranger:	Donald Fraser (composer and conductor)

recorded at:	Manhattan Center Studios in Midtown Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (in 1986)

recording of:	Once in Royal David’s City (in 1986)

lyricist:	Cecil Frances Alexander (in 1848)
composer:	Henry John Gauntlett (in 1849)

later parody versions:	Once in Every Carol Service
later translated versions:	Draw yn Ninas Dafydd Frenin I Kong Davids by I Kong Davids stad eingong
is the basis for:	Once in Royal David's City (descant and organ arr. Philip Ledger) Prelude on "Irby" ("Once in Royal David’s City")
has revision:	Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Mann)
arrangements:	Once in Royal David's City (arr. Ferguson) Once in Royal David's City (arr. Wilcocks (vv. 2-3) and Mann (v. 4ff)) Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Rutter) Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Willcocks)
music quoted in:	Song for the King