Essential Carols

"Essential Carols album by Douglas Whittaker on BeMusic"

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Release Date: 2012-09-24 00:00:00

  • Traditional: The First Nowell (Arr. Mackerras)
  • God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
  • Kirkpatrick: Away in a Manger
  • Traditional: Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol)
  • Hopkins Jr., John Henry: We Three Kings, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Christmas Carol)
  • Ratcliffe Woodward: Up! Good Christen folk and listen: "Ding-dong, ding, ding-a-dong-a-ding" (from "Piae Cantiones", 1582)
  • Traditional: Angels from the Realms of Glory (arr. Charles Wood of French Carol "Les Anges dans nos campagnes")
  • Traditional: O Little Town of Bethlehem (Arr. Philip Ledger)
  • Hadley: I Sing of a Maiden
  • Kocher: As with Gladness Men of Old (After Conrad Kocher's "Treuer Heiland", arr. William Henry Monk)
  • Howells: 3 Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose
  • Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act 3: Arie. "Tochter Zion"
  • Traditional: The Yorkshire Wassail Song: "Oh, Here We Come a Wassailing"
  • Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City (from "Hymns and Carols of Christmas")
  • Traditional: Zu Bethlehem geboren (German Carol from "Geistlicher Psalter, Köln, 1638")
  • Neale / Traditional: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Christian Hymn for Advent)
  • Traditional: The Coventry Carol
  • Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy (British Christmas Carol)
  • Traditional: Masters in This Hall (French Carol)
  • Gruber: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Arr. Willcocks, "Silent Night")
  • Goss: See amid the Winter's Snow, "Hymn for Christmas Day"
  • Traditional: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Christmas Carol, arr. David Willcocks)
  • Traditional: Sussex Carol: "On Christmas night all Christians sing" (Christmas Carol) [Arr. Philip Ledger]
  • Storrs Willis: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. David Willcocks)
  • Cummings & Mendelssohn: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (After Mendelssohn's Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4)
  • Ding Dong! Merrily on High
  • Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: The Lord at first Did Adam Make (Arr. David Willcocks)
  • Bach: O Jesulein süss, BWV 493 (Chorale Version)
  • Vaughan Williams: 5 English Folk Songs: No. 5, Wassail Song
  • The Little Drummer Boy
  • Tate: Carol with Lullaby
  • Traditional: El nino querido
  • Hairston: Mary's Little Boy Child
  • Traditional: The Gift
  • Shchedryk (Arr. James Brett)
  • Reger / Orch. Ekdahl: Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76: No. 52, Mariä Wiegenlied
  • Broadhurst: Cowboy Carol: "There'll be a new world beginning' from t'night!"
  • Traditional / Arr. Ekdahl: Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25, H. 130, Pt. 2: No. 8, Adieu des bergers à la Sainte-Famille, "Il s'en va loin de la terre" (Les Bergers)
  • Mason : Joy to the World (Based on Themes by G. F. Handel)
  • Rutter: Shepherd's Pipe Carol
  • Traditional: We Wish You a Merry Christmas (West Country)
  • Traditional: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
  • Sweelinck: Cantiones Sacrae: No. 13, Hodie Christus natus est, SwWV 163
  • Gibbons: Hosanna to the Son of David, a 6
  • Rutter: 8 Christmas Carols, Set II: No. 1, I Saw Three Ships
  • Philip the Chancellor: Angelus ad virginem, "Gabriel, From Heven King" (Carol from the 13th Century)
  • Rutter: Nativity Carol
  • Rutter: The Coming of our King (After a Polish Carol)
  • Sandys / Traditional: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English Carol)