100 Best Carols

1. 1
   The First Nowell (Arr. Mackerras)
   4:56
2. 2
   Away in a Manger
   2:10
3. 3
   Up! good Christen folk and listen
   1:18
4. 4
   O little town of Bethlehem (v.3 arr. Ledger)
   3:31
5. 5
   I sing of a maiden
   2:31
6. 6
   A Spotless Rose
   3:10
7. 7
   Once in Royal David's City (harm. A. H. Mann; descant Willcocks)
   5:12
8. 8
   Personent hodie
   2:41
9. 9
   12 Christmas Carols: No. 8, Myn Lyking, "I saw a fair mayden" (Allegro moderato)
   3:20
10. 10
    O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Christian Hymn for Advent)
    3:33
11. 11
    The Holly and the Ivy
    3:10
12. 12
    Silent Night (Mohr; trans. & arr. Willcocks)
    3:06
13. 13
    While shepherds watched their flocks by night (from Este's Psalter; descant Willcocks)
    2:53
14. 14
    It came upon the midnight clear (descant Willcocks)
    3:32
15. 15
    The Lord at first did Adam make
    4:10
16. 16
    Hark! the herald angels sing (tune & harmony adapted W. H. Cummings; brass fanfare & accomp. and descant by Willcocks)
    3:17
17. 17
    Shepherd's Pipe Carol
    2:54
18. 18
    Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
    3:15
19. 19
    Angel Tidings
    1:44
20. 20
    Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (arr. Rutter)
    3:25
21. 21
    I saw three ships come sailing by (arr. Rutter)
    2:05
22. 22
    Nativity Carol
    4:10
23. 23
    Quem pastores laudavere
    2:24
24. 24
    Rocking (Little Jesu sweetly sleep) (Czech traditional, coll. M. Shaw trans. Dearmer)
    3:52
25. 25
    Here We Come A-wassailing, "Wassail Song" (English Christmas Carol)
    4:09
26. 26
    The Coming of our King (Traditional Polish carol, arr. Rutter)
    2:40
27. 27
    The Infant King
    3:09
28. 28
    Shepherds' Noël
    3:07
29. 29
    Noël Nouvelet
    3:32
30. 30
    Gabriel's Message
    3:51
31. 31
    Sans Day Carol, "St. Day Carol": "Now the holly bears a berry" (Cornish Christmas Carol)
    3:20
32. 32
    Past three a-clock
    2:29
33. 33
    The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host"
    2:58
34. 34
    Los que fueron de buen gusto, Xácara in D Minor
    4:16
35. 35
    The Singing Master's Assistant, 1778: No. 6, Judea, "A virgin unspotted"
    3:19
36. 36
    The Babe of Bethlehem: "Ye Nations All, On You I Call"
    2:40
37. 37
    Thys Endris Nygth: "The other night I saw a sight" (English Carol from the 15th Century)
    4:45
38. 38
    Ríu Ríu Chíu - Spanish Villancico, No. 46, from "Cancionero de Uppsala": "Riu, riu, chiu, la guarda ribera"
    3:28
39. 39
    Christum wir sollen loben schon
    3:02
40. 40
    Gaudete, Christus est natus (from "Jistebnice Cantional, 1420")
    1:44
41. 41
    In hoc anni circulo (Christmas Carol)
    2:21
42. 42
    Traditional: Alleluya! A Nywe Werk Is Come on Honde! (Christmas Carol)
    5:50
43. 43
    The Old Year Now Away Is Fled (Carol for New Year's Day)
    1:51
44. 44
    Hodie nobis coelorum rex
    3:24
45. 45
    Audite principes a 16, C. 123
    6:17
46. 46
    Musae Sioniae, Theil 2: No. 5, In dulci jubilo, a 16 (Pt. 2)
    3:42
47. 47
    The Little Drummer Boy
    2:41
48. 48
    El nino querido
    2:47
49. 49
    The Gift
    2:09
50. 50
    Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76: No. 52, Mariä Wiegenlied (Orch. Ekdahl)
    2:26
51. 51
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Arr. Ekdahl)
    3:32
52. 52
    Joy to the World (Based on Themes by G. F. Handel)
    1:56
53. 53
    Tochter Zion, freue dich
    3:07
54. 54
    Zu Bethlehem geboreb
    2:21
55. 55
    Mary's Little Boy Child
    4:39
56. 56
    Shchedryk (Arr. James Brett)
    3:22
57. 57
    Il est né, le divin Enfant (Arr. Jonathan Tunick)
    2:39
58. 58
    Adam: Minuit, chrétiens: Cantique Noël (arr. Tunick)
    3:41
59. 59
    Marche des Rois: "De-matin, ai rescountra lou trin" (French Carol)
    2:48
60. 60
    Noël des îles
    4:44
61. 61
    Chanson joyeuse de Noël, a 4: "Le petit Jésus, Sauveur adorable"
    5:53
62. 62
    Weihnachten (arr. Mackerras)
    3:11
63. 63
    Von Himmel hoch (arr. Mackerras)
    3:15
64. 64
    In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Jonathan Tunick)
    3:49
65. 65
    O Tannenbaum (Arr. Glenn Osser)
    2:28
66. 66
    The Twelve Days of Christmas (Arr. Jonathan Tunick)
    4:19
67. 67
    God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
    2:14
68. 68
    Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol)
    2:28
69. 69
    We Three Kings, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Christmas Carol)
    3:07
70. 70
    Angels from the Realms of Glory (arr. Charles Wood of French Carol "Les Anges dans nos campagnes")
    3:09
71. 71
    As with Gladness Men of Old (After Conrad Kocher's "Treuer Heiland", arr. William Henry Monk)
    2:29
72. 72
    The Coventry Carol
    2:34
73. 73
    The Yorkshire Wassail Song: "Oh, Here We Come a Wassailing"
    2:34
74. 74
    Masters In This Hall
    4:02
75. 75
    See amid the Winter's Snow, "Hymn for Christmas Day"
    3:46
76. 76
    Sussex Carol
    1:42
77. 77
    Ding dong! Merrily on High
    1:54
78. 78
    O little one sweet BWV493
    2:52
79. 79
    Five English Folk Songs: 5. Wassail Song
    2:54
80. 80
    Carol with Lullaby
    3:21
81. 81
    Cowboy Carol
    3:21
82. 82
    The Shepherds' Farewell (from L'Enfance du Christ Op. 25)
    4:44
83. 83
    We wish you a merry Christmas (West Country)
    1:38
84. 84
    Nowell Sing We Now All and Some
    1:48
85. 85
    And all in the morning
    2:16
86. 86
    I saw a maiden
    3:05
87. 87
    A child is born in Bethlehem [Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem]
    2:28
88. 88
    Where Riches is Everlastingly
    2:48
89. 89
    How far is it to Bethlehem?
    2:13
90. 90
    Of the Father's heart begotten
    5:05
91. 91
    Resonemus laudibus
    1:55
92. 92
    The Shepherds' Cradle Song
    3:40
93. 93
    Quittez, pasteurs
    3:40
94. 94
    Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
    2:53
95. 95
    Remember, O thou man
    3:19
96. 96
    Hodie Christus natus est
    3:50
97. 97
    Hosanna to the Son of David
    3:14
98. 98
    Angelus ad virginem, "Gabriel, From Heven King" (Carol from the 13th Century)
    2:38
99. 99
    My Dancing Day
    2:04
100. 100
     O come, all ye faithful (harm. English Hymnal; brass fanfare & accomp., descant and last v. by Willcocks)
     4:47

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