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The Best Carols in the World...Ever!

By Various Artists

25th November 2005

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Title

Tempo

Key

Length

Cummings & Mendelssohn: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (After Mendelssohn's Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4)
Felix Mendelssohn, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Ian Hare, Sir David Willcocks

I Saw Three Ships - 1993 Remastered Version
Traditional English, The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

Traditional: The First Nowell (Arr. Mackerras)
Traditional, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Francis Grier, Philip Ledger

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen - 1993 Remastered Version
Traditional English, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - 1993 Remastered Version
Este's Psalter, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

Billings: The Singing Master's Assistant, 1778: No. 6, Judea, "A virgin unspotted"
William Billings, Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott

Gauntlett / Arr. Rutter: Irby "Once in Royal David's City"
Henry John Gauntlett, Clare College Singers, Jeremy Blandford, John Rutter, Clare College Orchestra

In the bleak midwinter - 1991 Remastered Version
Harold Darke, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
Traditional, Huddersfield Choral Society, Brian Kay, David Bell, Owain Arwel Hughes

Traditional / Arr. Rutter: In dulci jubilo
Traditional, Clare College Singers, John Rutter, Clare College Orchestra

Traditional: O Little Town of Bethlehem (Arr. Philip Ledger)
Traditional, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Philip Ledger

Past Three A-Clock - 1993 Remastered Version
Traditional, The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

The Coventry Carol
Traditional, Mediæval Bæbes

Away In a Manger (Arr. Thalben Ball) - 1998 Remastered Version
William J. Kirkpatrick, Temple Church Choir, George Thalben-Ball

Rutter: Nativity Carol
John Rutter, Clare College Singers, Clare College Orchestra

Unto Us is Born a Son (Words & Music from Piae Cantiones, 1584 ) - tune Arr. G. Palmer
Traditional, Huddersfield Choral Society, David Bell, Owain Arwel Hughes

Silent Night (wrds. Joseph Mohr, trans. & arr. Willcocks) - 1991 Remastered Version
Franz Xaver Gruber, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Varcoe, Sir David Willcocks

Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Anonymous, Sir David Willcocks

We Wish You a Merry Christmas - 1998 Remastered Version
Traditional West Country, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: The Lord at first Did Adam Make (Arr. David Willcocks)
Anonymous, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Up! good Christen folk, and listen - 1993 Remastered Version
Piae Cantiones, The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

Traditional: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Traditional, Clare College Singers, John Rutter, Clare College Orchestra

Bach: O Jesulein süss, BWV 493 (Chorale Version)
Traditional, The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Jacques Orchestra

O come, O come Emmanuel (tune from 15th-century Fr. processional) - arr. T. Helmore
Unknown, Huddersfield Choral Society, Brian Kay, David Bell, Owain Arwel Hughes

The Twelve Days of Christmas
Frederic Austin, Clare College Singers, Clare College Orchestra, Jeremy Blandford, John Rutter

Traditional: Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol)
Traditional, Huddersfield Choral Society, Brian Kay, David Bell, Owain Arwel Hughes

Cherry Tree Carol (Traditional English carol, arr. Willcocks) - 1991 Remastered Version
Traditional English, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Handel: Joy to the World
Anonymous, Huddersfield Choral Society, Brian Kay, David Bell, Owain Arwel Hughes

Traditional: Here We Come A-wassailing, "Wassail Song" (English Christmas Carol)
Traditional, Clare College Singers, John Rutter, Clare College Orchestra

Goss: See amid the Winter's Snow, "Hymn for Christmas Day"
John Goss, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

Gaudete
Ruth Galloway, Mediæval Bæbes

Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy (British Christmas Carol)
Traditional, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Traditional: The Yorkshire Wassail Song: "Oh, Here We Come a Wassailing"
Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

Hopkins Jr., John Henry: We Three Kings, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Christmas Carol)
John Henry Hopkins, Huddersfield Choral Society, Brian Kay, David Bell, Owain Arwel Hughes

Rutter: Shepherd's Pipe Carol
John Rutter, Clare College Singers, Clare College Orchestra

Traditional: Masters in This Hall (French Carol)
Traditional, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

Walker: The Babe of Bethlehem: "Ye Nations All, On You I Call"
William Walker, Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir, Taverner Consort

Howells: 3 Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose
Herbert Howells, Gareth Morrell, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Philip Ledger

Traditional / Arr Rutter: Angel Tidings
Traditional, Clare College Singers, John Rutter, Clare College Orchestra

When an angel host entuned - 1993 Remastered Version
Reginald Jacques, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

Kocher: As with Gladness Men of Old (After Conrad Kocher's "Treuer Heiland", arr. William Henry Monk)
Conrad Kocher, Huddersfield Choral Society, Brian Kay, David Bell, Owain Arwel Hughes

Adam Lay Ibounden
Katharine Blake, Traditional, Mediæval Bæbes

Rutter: The Coming of our King (After a Polish Carol)
Traditional, Clare College Singers, Clare College Orchestra, Jeremy Blandford, John Rutter

Christ was born on Christmas Day (Traditional, arr. for organ by Walford Davies) - 1998 Remastered Version
Traditional, Temple Church Choir, George Thalben-Ball

A Christmas Carol - 1993 Remastered Version
Traditional Hungarian, The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

Traditional: Sans Day Carol, "St. Day Carol": "Now the holly bears a berry" (Cornish Christmas Carol)
Traditional, Clare College Singers, John Rutter, Clare College Orchestra

Gabriel's Message - 1993 Remastered Version
Traditional Basque, The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

The Chester Carol, 'Maker of the Heavens Fair' (arr. Boughton) - 1998 Remastered Version
Traditional, Robert Tear/Mair Jones

Rocking - 1993 Remastered Version
Traditional Czech, The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

Billings: The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host"
William Billings, Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott