Carols for Christmas Morning
Four Christmas Tableaux
I Birth in a Manger
1 Once in royal David's city HJ Gauntlett, arranged David
Willcocks
2 A boy was born in Bethlehem (from 'A Boy was Born') Benjamin Britten
3 Balulalow (from 'A Ceremony of Carols') Benjamin Britten
4 In dulci jubilo (BWV 608) Johann Sebastian Bach
5 Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child Kenneth Leighton
6 Joseph est bien marié (musette) Pierre Dandrieu
7 Joseph lieber, Joseph mein Hieronymus Praetorius
II Visitors bearing Gifts
8 Kyrie eleison (from 'Messe de minuit pour Noël') Marc-Antoine Charpentier
9 Wassail William Mathias
10 Quem vidistis pastores Francis Poulenc
11 In the bleak midwinter Harold Darke
12 What sweeter music can we bring ('A Christmas Caroll' op.21) Kenneth Leighton
13 Où s'en vont ces gais bergers? Claude Balbastre
III A Spotless Rose
14 There is no rose (from 'A Ceremony of Carols') Benjamin Britten
15 As dew in April (from 'A Ceremony of Carols') Benjamin Britten
16 Magnificat (from the 'All-Night Vigil' op.37) Sergei Rachmaninov
17 Christum wir sollen loben (BWV 611) Johann Sebastian Bach
IV Jubilation
18 Sussex carol (English traditional carol) arranged David Willcocks
19 Unto us is born a son (from 'Piae Cantiones' 1582) arranged David Willcocks
20 Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (English traditional carol) arranged Edward
Higginbottom
21 Or nous dites Marie Pierre Dandrieu
22 The holly and the ivy (English traditional carol) arranged Henry Walford Davies
23 Of the father's heart begotten (from 'Piae Cantiones' 1582) arranged David Willcocks
The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by
Edward Higginbottom
Over 1 hour of music
CCL CDG1075
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