Essential Carols

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
  3:43
• 2
  The First Nowell
  4:54
• 3
  While Shepherds Watched
  3:16
• 4
  I Saw Three Ships
  2:11
• 5
  Ding Dong! Merrily on High
  2:09
• 6
  King Jesus Hath a Garden
  4:03
• 7
  In Dulci Jubilo
  3:44
• 8
  Unto Us Is Born a Son
  1:59
• 9
  O Come, All Ye Faithful
  4:18
• 10
  Away in a Manger
  2:32
• 11
  O Little Town of Bethlehem
  3:11
• 12
  The Holly and the Ivy
  3:31
• 13
  God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
  3:29
• 14
  See Amid the Winter's Snow
  4:00
• 15
  Past Three O'Clock
  2:35
• 16
  Invitatory
  1:37
• 17
  Adam Lay Ybounden
  1:27
• 18
  Gabriel's Message
  2:44
• CD 2
• 1
  Once in Royal David's City
  5:35
• 2
  Sussex Carol
  1:58
• 3
  Rocking
  1:43
• 4
  Rejoice and Be Merry
  1:51
• 5
  The Cherry Tree Carol
  1:52
• 6
  The Three Kings
  2:46
• 7
  As With Gladness Men of Old
  3:24
• 8
  A Great and Mighty Wonder
  3:14
• 9
  The Infant King
  3:22
• 10
  Balulalow
  2:18
• 11
  The Crown of Roses
  2:18
• 12
  Christ Was Born on Christmas Day
  2:24
• 13
  Blessed Be That Maid Mary
  2:39
• 14
  Lute-Book Lullaby
  2:04
• 15
  Myn Lyking
  2:58
• 16
  Personent Hodie
  2:38
• 17
  In the Bleak Midwinter
  4:52
• 18
  Coventry Carol
  2:15
• 19
  Shepherds, in the Field Abiding
  3:05
• 20
  Torches
  1:33
• 21
  Fantasia on Christmas Carols
  11:38

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Release credits

• Andrew Raeburn
  producer [21]
• Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  choir vocals [1.1-15, 2.2-21], vocal [1.9, 1.15, 2.6, 2.18]
• Hervey Alan
  bass-baritone vocals [21]
• Kenneth Wilkinson
  balance [21]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [21]
• Simon Preston
  organ [2.3, 1.2, 1.7, 1.9]
• Sir David Willcocks
  arranger [2], conductor [1.1-15, 2.2-21]

Issues

• E
  Essential Carols

  2x CD
  4 November 2005