The Christmas Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1: A Traditional Christmas Carol Collection Traditional
• 1
  The First Nowell

  The Sixteen
  5:40
• 2
  Once in Royal David's City

  Henry John Gauntlett
  4:12
• 3
  The Sussex Carol

  The Sixteen
  1:55
• 4
  While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night

  Christopher Tye
  2:36
• 5
  I Saw Three Ships

  The Sixteen
  1:34
• 6
  Angels From the Realms of Glory

  James Montgomery
  3:59
• 7
  O Little Town of Bethlehem

  Sir Henry Walford Davies
  3:45
• 8
  Silent Night

  Franz Xaver Gruber
  2:53
• 9
  Away in a Manger

  William James Kirkpatrick
  2:21
• 10
  Rocking

  The Sixteen
  1:58
• 11
  In dulci jubilo

  The Sixteen
  3:51
• 12
  Ding Dong Merrily on High

  Thoinot Arbeau
  1:55
• 13
  In the Bleak Midwinter

  Harold Edwin Darke
  4:27
• 14
  Good King Wenceslas

  John Mason Neale
  3:15
• 15
  Deck the Hall With Boughs of Holly

  The Sixteen
  1:13
• 16
  The Holly and the Ivy

  The Sixteen
  3:28
• 17
  God Rest You Merry Gentlemen

  The Sixteen
  3:33
• 18
  See Amid the Winter's Snow

  Edward Caswall
  4:54
• 19
  Coventry Carol

  The Sixteen
  3:46
• 20
  O Come All Ye Faithful

  John Francis Wade
  6:20
• 21
  Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

  Felix Mendelssohn
  3:14
• CD 2: An Early English Christmas Collection
• 1
  Verbum caro (chant)

  The Sixteen
  3:58
• 2
  Salutation Carol

  The Sixteen
  2:12
• 3
  Nowell sing we, both all and some

  The Sixteen
  2:34
• 4
  Gaudete

  The Sixteen
  1:26
• 5
  Hail Mary full of grace

  The Sixteen
  5:22
• 6
  Gloria in excelsis

  John Sheppard
  3:55
• 7
  There is no rose

  The Sixteen
  4:04
• 8
  Nowell, nowell: Out of your sleep

  The Sixteen
  2:06
• 9
  Remember O thou man

  Thomas Ravenscroft
  3:27
• 10
  Quid petis, o fili?

  Richard Pygott
  8:29
• 11
  Sweet was the song

  The Sixteen
  2:09
• 12
  Lullaby my sweet little baby

  William Byrd
  6:30
• 13
  Ave rex angelorum

  The Sixteen
  2:09
• 14
  Drive the cold winter away

  The Sixteen
  2:05
• 15
  Nowell, nowell: The boares head

  The Sixteen
  3:34
• 16
  The old year year now has passed away

  The Sixteen
  1:45
• 17
  Angelus ad virginem

  The Sixteen
  2:40
• 18
  Nowell, nowell: Dieu vous garde

  Richard Smert
  3:52
• 19
  Make we joy

  The Sixteen
  2:37
• 20
  Verbum caro

  John Sheppard
  6:57
• CD 3: A Twentieth Century Christmas Collection
• 1
  Make We Joy Now in This Fest

  Sir William Walton
  3:25
• 2
  Coventry Carol

  Kenneth Leighton
  3:12
• 3
  A Babe Is Born

  Peter Racine Fricker
  1:52
• 4
  The Virgin's Cradle Song

  Edmund Rubbra
  1:44
• 5
  A Hymn to the Virgin

  Benjamin Britten
  3:40
• 6
  The Lamb

  John Tavener
  3:42
• 7
  O Magnum Mysterium: Carol: O magnum mysterium

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  1:28
• 8
  O Magnum Mysterium: Carol: Haylle, comly and clene

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  1:19
• 9
  O Magnum Mysterium: Sonata I: Puer Natus

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  5:44
• 10
  O Magnum Mysterium: Carol: O magnum mysterium

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  1:35
• 11
  O Magnum Mysterium: Carol: Alleluia, pro Virgine Maria

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  2:21
• 12
  O Magnum Mysterium: Sonata II: Lux fulgebit

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  6:39
• 13
  O Magnum Mysterium: Carol: The Fader of Heaven

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  1:48
• 14
  O Magnum Mysterium: Carol: O magnum mysterium

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  1:44
• 15
  O Magnum Mysterium: Organ Fantasia on 'O magnum mysterium'

  Peter Maxwell Davies
  12:04
• 16
  Sing Lullaby

  Herbert Howells
  3:50
• 17
  Lute Book Lullaby

  Peter Hayward
  2:31
• 18
  A Spotless Rose

  Herbert Howells
  3:26
• 19
  Corpus Christi

  Peter Warlock
  4:35
• 20
  Balulalow

  Peter Warlock
  2:06
• 21
  Benedicamus Domino

  Peter Warlock
  1:17
• 22
  Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

  John Gardner
  2:10

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Release credits

• Andrew Carwood
  tenor vocals [11, 16]
• Ben Hoffnung
  tambourine [21]
• Caroline Trevor
  alto vocals [13, 13-14], solo [13]
• Christopher Royall
  solo [5]
• David Roy
  tenor vocals [5, 13]
• Deborah Miles-Johnson
  alto vocals [11, 16]
• Fiona Clarke
  soprano vocals [11]
• Frances Kelly
  harp [1-20]
• Francis Steele
  bass vocals [11]
• Giles Lewin
  rebec [1-20], violin [1-20]
• Harry Christophers
  conductor [1.1-21, 2.1-20, 3.1-8, 3.10-11, 3.13-14, 3.16-22]
• Jeremy White
  bass vocals [11, 18-19]
• Margaret Phillips
  organ [3.15, 3.20-21, 1.1-21]
• Mark Brown
  producer [1-6, 16-22]
• Mike Hatch
  engineer [6]
• Neil MacKenzie
  solo [5, 19], tenor vocals [3.19, 1.11, 1.19]
• Nicola Jenkin
  solo [2], soprano vocals [1.7, 1.11, 1.16, 3.2]
• Patricia Forbes
  solo [5, 13, 17, 20], soprano vocals [13, 13-14, 17, 20]
• Peter Hayward
  producer [1.1-21, 3.1-6, 3.16-22]
• Robin Barda
  alto vocals [11]
• Robin Jeffrey
  classical guitar [2.1-20, 1.1-21], lute [1.1-21, 2.1-20, 3.17]
• Ruth Dean
  solo [19], soprano vocals [3.19, 1.5, 1.19]
• Sally Dunkley
  soprano vocals [18]
• Simon Birchall
  baritone vocals [18], solo [5, 18]
• Stephen Johns
  producer [1-20]
• The Sixteen
  choir vocals [3.1-8, 3.10-11, 3.13-14, 3.16-22, 1.1-21, 2.1-10, 2.12, 2.17-20], performer [6]
• Timothy Jones
  bass vocals [16]
• William Lockhart
  membranophone [21]
• Show all credits (28)

Issues

• 

  T
  The Christmas Collection

  3x CD (CD 3 "20th Century" has PMD "O Magnum Mysterium" in place of Britten "A Ceremony of Carols")
  1997
• T
  The Christmas Collection

  3x CD
  2007