100 Best Carols

Disc 1

1. The First Nowell (Arr. Mackerras)

2. Away in a Manger

3. Up! Good Christen folk and listen: "Ding-dong, ding, ding-a-dong-a-ding" (from "Piae Cantiones", 1582)

4. O Little Town of Bethlehem (Arr. Philip Ledger)

5. I Sing of a Maiden, for Two-Part Boys' Choir and Piano (Version with Organ)

6. 3 Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose

7. Once in Royal David's City (from "Hymns and Carols of Christmas")

8. Personent hodie (Christmas Carol from "Piae Cantiones")

9. 12 Christmas Carols: No. 8, Myn Lyking, "I saw a fair mayden" (Allegro moderato)

10. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Christian Hymn for Advent)

11. The Holly and the Ivy (British Christmas Carol)

12. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Arr. Willcocks, "Silent Night")

13. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Christmas Carol, arr. David Willcocks)

14. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. David Willcocks)

15. The Lord At First Did Adam Make (Arr. David Willcocks)

16. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Carol)

Disc 2

1. Shepherd's Pipe Carol

2. Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

3. Angel Tidings

4. Quelle est cette odeur agr?able?: "Whence is that goodly fragrance?" (French Christmas Carol from the 17th Century)

5. I Saw Three Ships: "I saw three ships come sailing in" (English Christmas Carol)

6. Nativity Carol

7. Quem pastores laudavere (from "Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410")

8. Hajej, nynjej, "Rocking Carol": "Hajej, nynej, Jezisku, Jezisku" (Czech Carol)

9. Here We Come A-wassailing, "Wassail Song" (English Christmas Carol)

10. The Coming of our King (After a Polish Carol)

11. The Infant King (Old Basque No?l)

12. Shepherds' No?l (Catalan Carol)

13. No?l Nouvelet

14. Gabriel's Message (Basque Carol)

15. Sans Day Carol, "St. Day Carol": "Now the holly bears a berry" (Cornish Christmas Carol)

16. Past Three O'Clock, "Past Three A Clock" (English Carol)

Disc 3

1. The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host"

2. Los que fueron de buen gusto, X?cara in D Minor

3. The Singing Master's Assistant, 1778: No. 6, Judea, "A virgin unspotted"

4. The Babe of Bethlehem: "Ye nations all, on you I call"

5. Thys Endris Nygth: "The other night I saw a sight" (English Carol from the 15th Century)

6. R?u R?u Ch?u - Spanish Villancico, No. 46, from "Cancionero de Uppsala": "Riu, riu, chiu, la guarda ribera"

7. Christum wir sollen loben schon

8. Gaudete, Christus est natus (from "Jistebnice Cantional, 1420")

9. In hoc anni circulo (Christmas Carol)

10. Traditional: Alleluya! A Nywe Werk Is Come on Honde! (Christmas Carol)

11. The Old Year Now Away Is Fled (Carol for New Year's Day)

12. Hodie nobis coelorum rex, a 4, P. 92

13. Audite principes a 16, C. 123

14. Musae Sioniae, Theil 2: No. 5, In dulci jubilo, a 16 (Pt. 2)

Disc 4

1. Oh du fr?hliche

2. El nino querido

3. The Gift

4. Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76: No. 52, Mari? Wiegenlied, "Maria sitzt am Rosenhag" (Allegretto)

5. Go Tell It on the Mountain

6. Joy to the World (Based on Themes by G. F. Handel)

7. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act 3: No. 32e, Chorus, "See the conqu'ring hero comes!" - Sung in German, "Tochter Zion"

8. Zu Bethlehem geboren (German Carol from "Geistlicher Psalter, K?ln, 1638")

9. Mary's Little Boy Child

10. Shchedryk (Arr. James Brett)

11. Il est n?, le divin Enfant (Arr. Jonathan Tunick)

12. Cantique de No?l, "Minuit, chr?tiens"

13. Marche des Rois: "De-matin, ai rescountra lou trin" (French Carol)

14. No?l des ?les

15. Chanson joyeuse de No?l, a 4: "Le petit J?sus, Sauveur adorable"

16. Weihnachtslieder: No. 1, Weihnachten, "Leise weht's durch alle Lande" (Arr. Mackerras)

17. Von Himmel hoch (Arr. Mackerras)

18. In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Jonathan Tunick)

19. O Tannenbaum (Arr. Glenn Osser)

20. The Twelve Days of Christmas (Arr. Jonathan Tunick)

Disc 5

1. Traditional: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, "Tidings of Comfort and Joy" (English Christmas Carol from "The Roxburghe Collection")

2. Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol)

3. We Three Kings, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Christmas Carol)

4. Angels from the Realms of Glory (arr. Charles Wood of French Carol "Les Anges dans nos campagnes")

5. As with Gladness Men of Old (After Conrad Kocher's "Treuer Heiland", arr. William Henry Monk)

6. The Coventry Carol

7. The Yorkshire Wassail Song: "Oh, here we come a wassailing"

8. Masters in This Hall (French Carol)

9. See amid the Winter's Snow, "Hymn for Christmas Day"

10. Sussex Carol: "On Christmas night all Christians sing" (Christmas Carol) [Arr. Philip Ledger]

11. Ding Dong! Merrily on High

12. O Jesulein s?ss, BWV 493 (Chorale Version)

13. 5 English Folk Songs for Unaccompanied Chorus: No. 5, Wassail Song, "Wassail, Wassail, all over the town" (Vivace)

14. Carol with Lullaby

15. Cowboy Carol: "There'll be a new world beginning' from t'night!"

16. L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25, H. 130, Pt. 2: No. 8, Adieu des bergers ? la Sainte-Famille, "Il s'en va loin de la terre" (Les Bergers)

17. We Wish You a Merry Christmas (West Country)

Disc 6

1. Nowell! Nowell! Nowell!: "Nowell sing we now all and some" (after a Christmas Carol from the 15th Century)

2. And All in the Morning

3. I Saw a Maiden (After a Basque Noel, arr. Edgar Pettman)

4. Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem, SSWV 292 - No. 9 from "Geistliche Konzerte III", 1635: "A child is born in Bethlehem" (Arr. David Willcocks)

5. Where Riches is Everlastingly: "Into this world this day did come"

6. How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (English Carol)

7. Of the Father's Heart Begotten (Christmas Carol)

8. Resonet in laudibus (14th-Century Carol from the "Moosburg Gradual of 1360")

9. The Shepherds' Cradle Song

10. Quittez, pasteurs: "Quittez, pasteurs, vos brebis, vos houlettes" (French Carol, arr. John Rutter)

11. Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child, Op. 25b, "Coventry Carol"

12. Melismata: No. 23, Remember, O Thou Man, "A Christmas Carol"

13. Cantiones Sacrae: No. 13, Hodie Christus natus est, SwWV 163

14. Hosanna to the Son of David, a 6

15. Angelus ad virginem, "Gabriel, From Heven King" (Carol from the 13th Century)

16. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English Carol)

17. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)