100 Best Carols

Album by Thomas Ravenscroft.

Release date: 2007-11-05

Tracks (50)

  1. Billings: The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host"
  2. The Little Drummer Boy
  3. Traditional: The First Nowell (Arr. Mackerras)
  4. Rutter: Shepherd's Pipe Carol
  5. Vidales: Los que fueron de buen gusto, Xácara in D Minor
  6. Traditional: El nino querido
  7. Kirkpatrick: Away in a Manger
  8. Traditional: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
  9. Billings: The Singing Master's Assistant, 1778: No. 6, Judea, "A virgin unspotted"
  10. Traditional: The Gift
  11. Ratcliffe Woodward: Up! Good Christen folk and listen: "Ding-dong, ding, ding-a-dong-a-ding" (from "Piae Cantiones", 1582)
  12. Traditional / Arr Rutter: Angel Tidings
  13. Walker: The Babe of Bethlehem: "Ye Nations All, On You I Call"
  14. Reger / Orch. Ekdahl: Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76: No. 52, Mariä Wiegenlied
  15. Traditional: O Little Town of Bethlehem (Arr. Philip Ledger)
  16. Traditional: Quelle est cette odeur agréable? - French Christmas Carol from the 17th Century
  17. Traditional: Thys Endris Nygth: "The other night I saw a sight" (English Carol from the 15th Century)
  18. Hadley: I Sing of a Maiden
  19. Rutter: 8 Christmas Carols, Set II: No. 1, I Saw Three Ships
  20. Traditional: Ríu Ríu Chíu - Spanish Villancico, No. 46, from "Cancionero de Uppsala": "Riu, riu, chiu, la guarda ribera"
  21. Howells: 3 Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose
  22. Rutter: Nativity Carol
  23. Anonymous: Christum wir sollen loben schon
  24. Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City (from "Hymns and Carols of Christmas")
  25. Anonymous: Quem pastores laudavere (from "Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410")
  26. Anonymous: Gaudete, Christus est natus (from "Jistebnice Cantional, 1420")
  27. Trad.: Personent Hodie
  28. Shaw / Traditional: Hajej, nynjej, "Rocking Carol": "Hajej, nynej, Jezisku, Jezisku" (Czech Carol)
  29. Traditional: In hoc anni circulo (Christmas Carol)
  30. Terry: 12 Christmas Carols: No. 8, Myn Lyking, "I saw a fair mayden" (Allegro moderato)
  31. Traditional: Here We Come A-wassailing, "Wassail Song" (English Christmas Carol)
  32. Traditional: Alleluya! A Nywe Werk Is Come on Honde! (Christmas Carol)
  33. Neale / Traditional: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Christian Hymn for Advent)
  34. Rutter: The Coming of our King (After a Polish Carol)
  35. Traditional: The Old Year Now Away Is Fled (Carol for New Year's Day)
  36. Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy (British Christmas Carol)
  37. Baring-Gould / Traditional: The Infant King (Old Basque Noël)
  38. Tallis: Hodie nobis coelorum rex, a 4, P. 92
  39. Gruber: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Arr. Willcocks, "Silent Night")
  40. Rutter / Traditional: Shepherds' Noël (Catalan Carol)
  41. Gabrieli: Audite principes a 16, C. 123
  42. Traditional: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Christmas Carol, arr. David Willcocks)
  43. Traditional / Arr. Rutter: Noël nouvelet
  44. Baring-Gould / Traditional: Gabriel's Message (Basque Carol)
  45. Praetorius: Musae Sioniae, Theil 2: No. 5, In dulci jubilo, a 16 (Pt. 2)
  46. Storrs Willis: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. David Willcocks)
  47. Traditional: Sans Day Carol, "St. Day Carol": "Now the holly bears a berry" (Cornish Christmas Carol)
  48. Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: The Lord at first Did Adam Make (Arr. David Willcocks)
  49. Traditional: Past Three O'Clock, "Past Three A Clock" (English Carol)
  50. Cummings & Mendelssohn: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (After Mendelssohn's Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4)

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