If on a Winter’s Night…

Tracklist

• 1
  Gabriel’s Message
  2:33
  2.0 ★
• 2
  Soul Cake
  3:27
  2.5 ★
• 3
  There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
  4:03
  2.0 ★
• 4
  The Snow It Melts the Soonest
  3:43
  1.5 ★
• 5
  Christmas at Sea
  4:37
  2.0 ★
• 6
  Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
  2:41
  1.5 ★
• 7
  Cold Song
  3:16
  2.0 ★
• 8
  The Burning Babe
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Now Winter Comes Slowly
  3:05
  2.0 ★
• 10
  The Hounds of Winter
  5:49
  2.0 ★
• 11
  Balulalow
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Cherry Tree Carol
  3:11
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Lullaby for an Anxious Child
  2:50
  2.0 ★
• 14
  The Hurdy‐Gurdy Man
  2:49
  3.0 ★
• 15
  You Only Cross My Mind in Winter
  2:35
  2.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bashiri Johnson
  frame drum [11], percussion [5, 10]
• Bassam Saba
  ney [3], oud [3]
• Bijan Chemirani
  percussion [3, 10]
• Brent Madsen
  trumpet [2]
• Charles Curtis
  cello [11]
• Chris Botti
  trumpet [11]
• Chris Dudley
  trombone [2]
• Chris Gekker
  trumpet [2]
• Cyro Baptista
  percussion [1, 8, 10, 13]
• Daniel Druckman
  snare drum [8, 11]
• Daniel Freedman
  percussion [3]
• Daniel Hope
  violin [9, 14]
• Daphna Mor
  recorder [7]
• Dave Hartley
  harmonium [3]
• David Mansfield
  12 string guitar [5], hammered dulcimer [5, 8], mandocello [8], mandolin [2, 8]
• David Sancious
  organ [10]
• Dean Parks
  guitar [2], mandolin [2]
• Dominic Miller
  guitar [1, 4-5, 7, 10, 13]
• Donald Hay
  percussion [5]
• Dov Scheindlin
  viola [9]
• Edin Karamazov
  lute [15]
• Ibrahim Maalouf
  trumpet [1]
• Ira Coleman
  bass [1-2, 4-5, 8-9, 13, 15]
• Jack DeJohnette
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Jasmine Thomas
  background vocals [11]
• Joe Sumner
  background vocals [2-3]
• John Clark
  horn [2]
• John Ellis
  bass clarinet [7, 10]
• Julian Sutton
  diatonic button accordion [6, 8, 10, 13-14]
• Kathryn Tickell
  Northumbrian pipes [6], violin [2, 5-6, 8, 10, 13]
• Kenny Garrett
  soprano saxophone [8]
• Les Neish
  tuba [2]
• Lisa Fischer
  background vocals [8, 11], vocal [10]
• Marcus Rojas
  tuba [2]
• Mary Macmaster
  harp [5, 8, 13], vocal [5]
• Melissa Meell
  cello [9]
• Musica Æterna Orchestra
  strings [6, 11, 15]
• Peter Tickell
  violin [2]
• Rhani Krija
  percussion [3]
• Robert Sadin
  arranger, conductor [6, 11, 15], percussion [7], sound effects [9]
• Stile Antico
  choir vocals [6]
• Sting
  arranger, guitar [5, 8, 10-12, 14], lute [3], percussion [2, 8, 10], snare drum [5], vocal
• Svetlana Tsoneva
  violin [7]
• The Webb Sisters
  background vocals [2-3]
• Vincent Ségal
  cello [6-8, 10-11, 13]
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  If on a Winter’s Night…

  CD
  3 September 2009
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  CD, DVD-Video (limited deluxe cd + dvd edition, made in Germany)
  23 October 2009
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  26 October 2009
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  26 October 2009
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  26 October 2009
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  2 December 2009
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  6 August 2013
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