William J. Kirkpatrick
William J. Kirkpatrick was a gospel hymn composer whose 1895 setting of Away in a Manger is one of the two melodies most often sung to the carol.
That cradle-song tune is the work by which he is still widely known at Christmas.
On Move it appears in choral programmes on Christmas Joy and a Ceremony of Carols (MCD 047) and We Wish You a Merry Christmas (MD 3079).
Compositions by William J. Kirkpatrick appear on
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, presents a varied selection of twenty-eight Christmas carols. Familiar favourites sit beside Bach and Pachelbel organ pieces and twentieth-century settings.
Christmas Joy and a Ceremony of Carols
The Melbourne Academy Boys Choir, directed by Andrew Blackburn, offers a Christmas programme of familiar carols and distinctive concert works by Kodály, Grüber, Britten and others.