The Best Carols in the World...Ever!

Album by Henry John Gauntlett.

Release date: 2005-11-25

Tracks (50)

  1. Cummings & Mendelssohn: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (After Mendelssohn's Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4)
  2. Traditional: Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol)
  3. I Saw Three Ships - 1993 Remastered Version
  4. Cherry Tree Carol (Traditional English carol, arr. Willcocks) - 1991 Remastered Version
  5. Traditional: The First Nowell (Arr. Mackerras)
  6. Handel: Joy to the World
  7. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen - 1993 Remastered Version
  8. Traditional: Here We Come A-wassailing, "Wassail Song" (English Christmas Carol)
  9. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - 1993 Remastered Version
  10. Goss: See amid the Winter's Snow, "Hymn for Christmas Day"
  11. Billings: The Singing Master's Assistant, 1778: No. 6, Judea, "A virgin unspotted"
  12. Gaudete
  13. Gauntlett / Arr. Rutter: Irby "Once in Royal David's City"
  14. Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy (British Christmas Carol)
  15. In the bleak midwinter - 1991 Remastered Version
  16. Traditional: The Yorkshire Wassail Song: "Oh, Here We Come a Wassailing"
  17. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
  18. Hopkins Jr., John Henry: We Three Kings, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Christmas Carol)
  19. Traditional / Arr. Rutter: In dulci jubilo
  20. Rutter: Shepherd's Pipe Carol
  21. Traditional: O Little Town of Bethlehem (Arr. Philip Ledger)
  22. Traditional: Masters in This Hall (French Carol)
  23. Past Three A-Clock - 1993 Remastered Version
  24. Walker: The Babe of Bethlehem: "Ye Nations All, On You I Call"
  25. The Coventry Carol
  26. Howells: 3 Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose
  27. Away In a Manger (Arr. Thalben Ball) - 1998 Remastered Version
  28. Traditional / Arr Rutter: Angel Tidings
  29. Rutter: Nativity Carol
  30. When an angel host entuned - 1993 Remastered Version
  31. Unto Us is Born a Son (Words & Music from Piae Cantiones, 1584 ) - tune Arr. G. Palmer
  32. Kocher: As with Gladness Men of Old (After Conrad Kocher's "Treuer Heiland", arr. William Henry Monk)
  33. Silent Night (wrds. Joseph Mohr, trans. & arr. Willcocks) - 1991 Remastered Version
  34. Adam Lay Ibounden
  35. Ding Dong! Merrily on High
  36. Rutter: The Coming of our King (After a Polish Carol)
  37. We Wish You a Merry Christmas - 1998 Remastered Version
  38. Christ was born on Christmas Day (Traditional, arr. for organ by Walford Davies) - 1998 Remastered Version
  39. Traditional / Arr. Willcocks: The Lord at first Did Adam Make (Arr. David Willcocks)
  40. A Christmas Carol - 1993 Remastered Version
  41. Up! good Christen folk, and listen - 1993 Remastered Version
  42. Traditional: Sans Day Carol, "St. Day Carol": "Now the holly bears a berry" (Cornish Christmas Carol)
  43. Traditional: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
  44. Gabriel's Message - 1993 Remastered Version
  45. Bach: O Jesulein süss, BWV 493 (Chorale Version)
  46. The Chester Carol, 'Maker of the Heavens Fair' (arr. Boughton) - 1998 Remastered Version
  47. O come, O come Emmanuel (tune from 15th-century Fr. processional) - arr. T. Helmore
  48. Rocking - 1993 Remastered Version
  49. The Twelve Days of Christmas
  50. Billings: The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host"

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