Best Loved Christmas Carols

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Once in royal David's city (feat. descant Wilcocks)
  5:17
• 2
  Angels, from the realms of glory (feat. arr. Ledger)
  2:37
• 3
  Adam lay ybounden
  1:08
• 4
  O little town of Bethlehem (feat. descant Armstrong)
  3:31
• 5
  In dulci jubilo (feat. arr. Pearsall)
  3:28
• 6
  The First Nowell (feat. arr. Stainer)
  4:53
• 7
  I saw three ships (feat. arr. Ledger)
  1:44
• 8
  Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing? (feat. arr. Willcocks)
  4:19
• 9
  Quem pastores laudavere (feat. arr. Rutter)
  1:58
• 10
  Personent hodie (feat. arr. Holst)
  2:41
• 11
  The Holly and the Ivy (feat. arr. Walford Davies)
  3:11
• 12
  A Spotless Rose (feat. Gareth Morrell baritone, Howells)
  3:10
• 13
  Away in a manger (feat. arr. Ledger)
  2:10
• 14
  While shepherds watched (feat. descant Wilcocks)
  2:51
• 15
  Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (arr. Wilcocks)
  1:55
• 16
  Up! good Christian folk and listen (feat. harm. Woodward)
  1:17
• 17
  In the bleak midwinter (feat. Stephen Varcoe baritone, Darke)
  4:33
• 18
  Ding dong! merrily on high (feat. arr. Wilcocks)
  2:24
• 19
  Silent Night (feat. Stephen Varcoe baritone, Cornelius)
  3:05
• 20
  It came upon the midnight clear (feat. descant Wilcocks)
  3:34
• 21
  The Three Kings (feat. Stephen Varcoe baritone, Cornelius)
  2:42
• 22
  I saw a maiden (feat. arr. Pettman)
  3:05
• 23
  Sussex Carol (feat. arr. Wilcocks)
  1:53
• 24
  O come, all ye faithful (feat. arr. Wilcocks)
  4:45
• 25
  Hark! the herald angels sing (feat. arr. Wilcocks)
  4:11
• CD 2
• 1
  Matin Responsory: I look from afar
  2:49
• 2
  Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (Veni, Redemptor gentium) (feat. harm. Woodward)
  3:32
• 3
  I wonder as I wander (feat. arr. Carter)
  3:11
• 4
  The Cherry Tree Carol (feat. arr. Wilcocks)
  1:51
• 5
  Gabriel's message (feat. arr. Pettmar)
  2:33
• 6
  Sussex Carol (On Christmas night all Christians sing) (feat. arr. Ledger)
  2:04
• 7
  Stille Nacht! (feat. arr. Ledger)
  2:57
• 8
  Chester Carol (Maker of the heavens fair) (feat. arr. Ledger)
  2:47
• 9
  A Babe is born, Op. 53 (feat. Mathias)
  3:12
• 10
  A maiden most gentle (feat. arr. Carter)
  2:48
• 11
  I sing of a maiden (feat. Hadley)
  2:31
• 12
  Myn Lyking (feat. Terry)
  3:20
• 13
  O come, O come, Emmanuel (feat. arr. Wilcocks)
  3:31
• 14
  A child is born in Bethlehem (Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem) (Scheidt)
  2:33
• 15
  Hodie Christus natus est (Cantiones sacrae a 5, 1619) (Sweelinck)
  3:48
• 16
  Hosanna to the son of David (Gibbons)
  3:09
• 17
  Gloria in excelsis Deo (Weelkes)
  4:08
• 18
  When to the temple Mary went (Maria, das Jungfräulein, ihr liebes Jesulein)
  3:37
• 19
  Angelus ad virginem (Chancellor)
  1:23
• 20
  Angelus ad virginem (feat. Douglas Whittaker flute, arr. Poston)
  2:38
• 21
  Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! (feat. Maconchy)
  1:48
• 22
  Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (feat. Poston)
  2:30
• 23
  That Lord that lay in assë stall (feat. Imagen Holst)
  1:32
• 24
  In dulci jubilo (feat. Chorale BWV368, arr. Johan Sebastian Bach)
  0:51
• 25
  In dulci jubilo - choral prelude (feat. BWV729 arr. Johan Sebastian Bach)
  2:33

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Release credits

• Adrian Partington
  organ [2-5]
• Andrew Carter
  arranger [3]
• Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  choir vocals [1.1-3, 1.3, 1.5-8, 1.10-12, 1.14-25, 2.2-6, 2.8-18, 2.22]
• Christopher Bishop
  producer [24-25]
• Francis Grier
  organ [2.11, 1.5-7, 1.16]
• Gareth Morrell
  baritone vocals [12], solo [12]
• Gustav Holst
  arranger [10]
• Ian Hare
  organ [1.1, 1.10-11, 1.24-25, 2.12-13]
• John Wells
  organ [1.14, 1.17-20, 1.22-23, 2.14]
• Neville Boyling
  balance [24-25]
• Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
  brass [24-25]
• Philip Ledger
  additional [6], chorus master [1.2-3, 2.6, 2.8-10], conductor [1.5-7, 1.16, 2.2-5, 2.11]
• Sir David Willcocks
  arranger [4, 13-14], conductor [2.12-23, 1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10-11, 1.14-15, 1.17-25], organ [25]
• Sir John Stainer
  arranger [6]
• Stephen Cleobury
  chorus master [3]
• Stephen Varcoe
  baritone vocals [17, 19, 21-22], solo [17, 19, 21]
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Issues

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  Best Loved Christmas Carols

  2x CD
  2004