100 Best Carols

DISC 1

The First Nowell (1985 Digital Remaster)

Away in a manger

Up! good Christen folk and listen (1985 Digital Remaster)

O little town of Bethlehem (v.3 arr. Ledger) (1985 Digital Remaster)

I sing of a maiden (1985 Digital Remaster)

A Spotless Rose (1985 Digital Remaster)

Once in Royal David's City (harm. A. H. Mann; descant Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster)

Personent hodie (1985 Digital Remaster)

Myn Lyking (1985 Digital Remaster)

O come, O come, Emmanuel (trans. J. M. Neale rev. T. A. Lacey; arr. Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster)

The Holly and the Ivy (1985 Digital Remaster)

Silent Night (Mohr; trans. & arr. Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster)

While shepherds watched their flocks by night (from Este's Psalter; descant Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster)

It came upon the midnight clear (descant Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster)

The Lord at first did Adam make (1991 Digital Remaster)

Hark! the herald angels sing (tune & harmony adapted W. H. Cummings; brass fanfare & accomp. and descant by Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster)

DISC 2

Shepherd's Pipe Carol (1988 Digital Remaster)

Infant holy, infant lowly (1988 Digital Remaster)

Angel Tidings (Traditional Moravian carol, arr. Rutter) (1988 Digital Remaster)

Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (arr. Rutter) (1988 Digital Remaster)

I saw three ships come sailing by (arr. Rutter) (1988 Digital Remaster)

Nativity Carol (1988 Digital Remaster)

Quem pastores laudavere (1988 Digital Remaster)

Rocking (Little Jesu sweetly sleep) (Czech traditional, coll. M. Shaw trans. Dearmer) (1988 Digital Remaster)

Here we come a-wassailing (arr. Rutter) (1988 Digital Remaster)

The Coming of our King (Traditional Polish carol, arr. Rutter) (1988 Digital Remaster)

The Infant King (1988 Digital Remaster)

Shepherds' Noël (1988 Digital Remaster)

Noël nouvelet (1988 Digital Remaster)

Gabriel's Message (1988 Digital Remaster)

Sans Day Carol, 'Now the holly bears a berry' (Traditional English Carol, arr. Rutter) (1988 Digital Remaster)

Past three a-clock (1988 Digital Remaster)

DISC 3

Methinks I see an heav'nly host

Los que fueren de buen gusto

A Virgin Unspotted

The Babe of Bethlehem (Ye nations all, on you I call)

Thys endere nyghth

Riu, riu, chiu

Christum wir sollen loben schon

Gaudete!

Verbum caro: In hac anni circulo

Alleluya: A nywe werk is come on honde

The Old Year now away is fled

Hodie nobis caelorum Rex

Audite principes a 16

In dulci jubilo (a 16) Pars II

DISC 4

The Little Drummer Boy

Three Spanish Carols: El nino querido (The Beloved Child)

The Gift

Berceuse De Marie (Max Reger) (Medley N°2)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (Chant De Noël Américain Traditionnel) (Medley N°2)

Joy To The World (Medley N°1)

Tochter Zion, freue dich (1988 Digital Remaster)

Zu Bethlehem geboreb (1988 Digital Remaster)

Mary's Boy Child

Ukraine Bell Carol

Il est né, le divin Enfant (arr. Tunick)

Minuit, chrétiens: Cantique Noël (arr. Tunick)

Marche des Rois

Noël des îles

Chanson joyeuse de Noël

Weihnachten (arr. Mackerras) (1990 Digital Remaster)

Von Himmel hoch (arr. Mackerras) (1990 Digital Remaster)

In the bleak mid-winter (arr. Tunick)

O Tannenbaum (arr. Osser)

The Twelve days of Christmas (arr. Tunick)

DISC 5

God rest you merry, gentlemen (arr. John Stainer)

Good King Wenceslas (tune from Piae Cantiones, wrds. J. M. Neale, arr. John Stainer)

We three kings of Orient are

Angels from the realms of glory (arr. Charles Wood)

As with gladness men of old (from chorale Treuer Heiland, adapted W. H. Monk)

The Coventry Carol

Yorkshire Wassail Song (We've been awhile a-wandering)

Masters In This Hall (1993 Digital Remaster)

See amid the winter's snow

Sussex Carol (1993 Digital Remaster)

Ding dong! merrily on high (1993 Digital Remaster)

O little one sweet BWV493 (1993 Digital Remaster)

Five English Folk Songs (1993 Digital Remaster): 5. Wassail Song

Carol with Lullaby (1993 Digital Remaster)

Cowboy Carol (2002 Digital Remaster)

The Shepherds' Farewell (from L'Enfance du Christ Op. 25) (2002 Digital Remaster)

We wish you a merry Christmas (West Country) (2002 Digital Remaster)

DISC 6

Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! (1991 Digital Remaster)

And all in the morning

I saw a maiden (1991 Digital Remaster)

A child is born in Bethlehem [Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem] (1991 Digital Remaster)

Where Riches is Everlastingly (1991 Digital Remaster)

How far is it to Bethlehem? (2004 Digital Remaster)

Of the Father's heart begotten (2004 Digital Remaster)

Resonemus laudibus (2004 Digital Remaster)

The Shepherds' Cradle Song (2004 Digital Remaster)

Quittez, pasteurs (2004 Digital Remaster)

Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (2004 Digital Remaster)

Remember, O thou man (2004 Digital Remaster)

Hodie Christus natus est (1991 Digital Remaster)

Hosanna to the Son of David (remaster) (1991 Digital Remaster)

Angelus ad virginem (1991 Digital Remaster)

My Dancing Day (1991 Digital Remaster)

O come, all ye faithful (harm. English Hymnal; brass fanfare & accomp., descant and last v. by Willcocks) (1985 Digital Remaster)