Tabernacle Choir Premieres

DVD cover with Natalie Cole and David McCullough with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, once a small band of singers who in 1847 had just crossed the plains of America, has become a premier all-volunteer chorus with a world-famous, instantly recognizable sound. With great honor the Mormon Channel presents Tabernacle Choir Premieres.

Sep 15, 2023

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The guest artist in 2009 was nine-time Grammy Award Winner Natalie Cole. She brought her distinctive and well-recognized style to the Conference Center stage for this concert - never to be forgotten. Several of the songs were first made famous by her father Nat King Cole including "Caroling, Caroling" and "Christmas Song" (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire). Ever the consummate performer, she wowed the audiences with her rendition of the medieval carol "The Holly and the Ivy" and David Foster's recent hit, "Grown-up Christmas List."
DVD cover with Natalie Cole and David McCullough with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Sep 16, 2023

Glad Christmas Tidings

Christmas may come but once a year on the calendar but that has not kept audiences from across the world enjoying the Mormon Tabernacle Choir holiday concerts year round. The 2010 special, “Glad Christmas Tidings,” is no exception. Just released, the DVD, Blu-Ray and CD promise listeners and viewers all the joy, tradition, stirring beginnings and glorious tributes to the birth of the Savior. In these live recordings from the concert series, Archuleta, pop music sensation and platinum recording artist, brings his youthful charm and incredible voice to performances which – as always – were sold out. "It's mind-boggling to stand in front of the Choir, and in front of you — and there are a lot of you," he told the audience last December. With the recent releases, the “audience” numbers will become even more staggering. Archuleta is featured in the traditional carols "Joy to the World," "Gesú bambino" and “Silent Night.” The sweet and gentle "Cat and Mouse Carol," which talks of how "love came down to earth" was an audience favorite and will no doubt become one of the favorites from the recordings. The Choir performs “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks,” “Away in a Manger,” majestic choruses by Mozart and Vaughan Williams, and closes with its magnificent “Angels, from the Realms of Glory.” Michael York, famed actor, narrates an account of John Parry, a Welshman, who as both a mason and a musician played an important role in the beginnings of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Richard Elliott performs his own arrangement entitled "A Holiday Hoedown for Organ (“Deck Them Halls”)" which spotlights his amazing hand and footwork.
Cover of a Mormon Tabernacle Choir Bluray. Glad Christmas Tidings.

Sep 16, 2023

Once Upon a Christmas

From the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square comes Once upon a Christmas. This album features guest artists Jane Seymour and Nathan Gunn. Host Ruth Todd interviews Mack Wilberg about each song from the album.
Mack Wilberg conducting.

Sep 16, 2023

Teach Me to Walk in the Light

Host Ruth Todd sits down with Mormon Tabernacle Choir conductors Mack Wilberg and Ryan Murphy, to share the inside details regarding each track for the Choir's new CD Teach Me to Walk in the Light and Other Children's Favorites.
Teach Me to Walk in the Light CD Cover

Sep 14, 2023

Let the Season In

Go behind the scenes with music director Mack Wilberg. He is giving you a sneak peak into the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Christmas celebration, featuring world-renowned vocalist Deborah Voigt and voice actor John Rhys-Davies join Enjoy your favorite holiday tunes and tales, including the story behind Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Cover art for the Let the Season In Christmas concert CD.

Sep 15, 2023

Keep Christmas With You

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's new Christmas CD, Keep Christmas With You. The CD is made up of music from the 2014 Christmas concert with Frozen’s Santino Fontana and The Muppets® from Sesame Street®. Music director, Mack Wilberg, and associate director, Ryan Murphy, take a track-by-track look at the entire Keep Christmas With You album, providing never before heard insights into the music and production.
Cover image for Keep Christmas With You featuring Santino Fontana  and the Muppets from Sesame Street.  For website use.

Sep 16, 2023

Messiah

Host Ruth Todd sits down with music director, Mack Wilberg, associate director, Ryan Murphy, and musicologist, Luke Howard to discuss the new recording by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square of Handel’s Messiah. This new recording relies on historical research and Baroque musical tradition to create a new landmark Messiah for our time. This musical masterpiece by George Frideric Handel, first performed in the spring of 1742, has become one of the world’s most beloved musical works. Over the years the Choir has performed selections from Messiah multiple times. In fact, the Choir’s very first recording in 1910 included the famous “Hallelujah” chorus. In 1959 the Choir’s recording of Messiah was a best-selling album and one of the most successful classical recordings of its time. This 2016 release of Messiah will take its place as one of the most significant recordings of Handel’s beloved oratorio in recent memory.
Artwork by J. Kirk Richards portraying the Savior holding a lamb.  A flock of sheep is seen in the background.

The Good Shepherd or Savior Holding a Lamb

Sep 16, 2023

Hallelujah

Take a behind the scenes look at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's new Christmas CD, Hallelujah. The CD is made up of music from the 2015 Christmas concert with Broadway star Laura Osnes, British actor Martin Jarvis and soloists from the Metropolitan Opera. Mack Wilberg and associate director, Ryan Murphy, take a track-by-track look at the entire Hallelujah album, providing never before heard insights into the music and production.
DVD cover for the 2015 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas  Concert- Hallelujah!