The Christmas Collection

William Walton (1902-1983)
Make we joy now in this Fest, Carol arrangement pour chœur (Christmas Carols n° 1)

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
3 Carols, op. 25

Peter Racine Fricker (1920-1990)
A Babe Is Born

Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
The Virgin’s Cradle Hymne (Dormi, Jesu!)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Hymne to the Virgin

John Tavener (1944-)
The Lamb Little Lamb, who made thee

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28

Herbert Norman Howells (1892-1983)
3 Carol-Hymnes pour chœur

Peter Hayward
luth Book Lullaby

Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Corpus Christi
Balulalow
Benedicamus Domino

John Gardner (1917-2011) Linton
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, pour chœur, op. 752

Sarum Chant (died 1492)
Verbum caro factum est

Traditional, Christmas
Nowell, Nowell, Tidings True (Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, this is the salutation)
Nowell Sing We (English)
Gaudete Christus est natus (Piae Cantiones 1582)

Traditional, English
Hail Mary Full of Grace (15th Century)

John Sheppard (1515-1558)
Gloria in excelsis

Traditional, Christmas
There Is n° Rose of Such Virtue (English)
Owt of your slepe aryse (15th c. English), Carol

Thomas Ravenscroft (1582-1635)
Remember, O thou man (from Melismata, 1611)

Richard Pygott (?1485-1549)
Quid Petis, O Fili, Carol pour 4 voix

Traditional, Christmas
luth Book Lullaby (Sweet was the Mélodie the Virgin sung)

William Byrd (1543-1623) [Composer]
Lullaby, my sweet little baby, Madrigal pour 5 voix (SSATB) & violes

Anonyme, Egerton Manuscript 3307
Ave rex angelorum, Carol pour 3 voix

Anonyme, English
Drive the Cold Winter Away (from John Playford’s English Dancing Master)

Traditional, Christmas
Nowell, nowell
The old yeare now away is fled (English)
Angelus ad virginem (English)
Nowell
Make we joy (Ritson MS.)

John Sheppard (1515-1558)
Verbum caro factum est

Traditional, Christmas
The First Nowell (English)

Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876)
Once in Royal David’s City, Carol

Traditional, Christmas
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
I Saw Three Ships, Carol
Anges From the Realms Of Glory
O Little Town of Bethlehem

Franz Gruber (1787-1863)
Silent Night

Traditional, Christmas
Away in a Manger
Rocking Carol (Czech)
In dulci jubilo (Piae Cantiones)
Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)
In the Bleak Midwinter (Welsh)
Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)
Deck the Halls (Welsh)
The Holly and the Ivy (English)
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
See amid the winter’s snow
As I out rode this enderes night (The Coventry Shepherds’ Carol) (16th century)
Herbei, o ihr Glaubigen, Carol (Mélodie Adeste fidelis)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Festgesang Hark! The herald Anges sing

Libby Crabtree (soprano)
Sioned Williams (harpe)
Sally Dunkley (soprano)
Robin Jeffrey (luth)
Ruth Dean (soprano)
Margaret Margaret Phillips (orgue)
Benedict Hoffnung (percussion)
William Lockhart (percussion)
Francis Steele (basse)
Peter Burrows
Fiona Clarke (soprano)
Christopher Hodges
David Roy (ténor)
Robin Jeffrey (guitare)
Andrew Carwood (ténor)
Timothy Jones (baryton-basse)
Jeremy White (basse)
Nicola Jenkin
Patricia Forbes (soprano)
Neil MacKenzie (ténor)
Simon Birchall

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers

Reference: COR16054
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