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Disc: 1
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Make we joy now in this Fest, carol arrangement for chorus (Christmas Carols No. 1)
3.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: Recession
8.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: In freezing winter night
12.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: Spring Carol
13.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: Deo Gracias!
14.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: Interlude
15.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: This little Babe
16.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: Procession
19.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: As dew in Aprille
22.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: Wolcum yole!
23.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: That yönge child
24.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: Balulalow
25.
A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28: There is no rose
Disc: 2
15.
Nowell, Nowell, Tidings True ("Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, this is the salutation")
Disc: 3
6.
As I out rode this enderes night (The Coventry Shepherds' Carol) (16th century)
21.
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenb
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1. Make we joy now in this Fest, carol arrangement for chorus (Christmas Carols No. 1)
Composer: William Walton (Composer) (1902 - 1983)
Period: Modern
2. Coventry Carol
Written: 1931 Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 3 min 26 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir)
Composer: Kenneth Leighton (1929 - 1988)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Carol
3. A Babe Is Born
Written: by 1550 Country: England Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 3 min 12 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: Jenkin, Nicola [Soprano Vocals] - null
Composer: Peter Racine Fricker (1920 - 1990)
Period: Modern
4. The Virgin's Cradle Hymn (Dormi, Jesu!)
Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 1 min 52 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir)
Composer: Edmund Rubbra (1901 - 1986)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Lullaby
5. A Hymn to the Virgin, for double chorus
Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 1 min 44 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir)
Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Sacred Music / Motet
6. The Lamb, for chorus
Written: 1930 Country: United Kingdom Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 3 min 40 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: Neil MacKenzie - null ; Patricia Forbes - null ; Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals] - null
Composer: John Tavener (Composer) (1944 - )
Period: Contemporary
Form / Genre: Chorus
7. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28
Written: 1982 Country: England Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 3 min 42 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir)
Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Cantata
8. Sing Lullaby, carol-anthem for chorus
Written: 1942 Recorded: 09/1992 Length - 19 min 38 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: Williams, Sioned - Harp ; Crabtree, Libby - null ; Dunkley, Sally - null
Composer: Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Lullaby
9. Lute Book Lullaby
Written: 1918 Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 3 min 50 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir)
Composer: Peter Hayward
Form / Genre: Lullaby
10. A Spotless Rose, for chorus
Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 2 min 31 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: Jeffrey, Robin - Lute ; Patricia Forbes - null
Composer: Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Sacred Music / Anthem
11. Corpus Christi
Written: 1919 Country: United Kingdom Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 3 min 26 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals] - null
Composer: Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Chorus
12. Balulalow, for voice & piano
Written: 1919 Country: United Kingdom Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 4 min 35 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: Ruth Dean - null ; Neil MacKenzie - null
Composer: Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Lullaby
13. Benedicamus Domino
Written: 1919 Country: England Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 2 min 6 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: Patricia Forbes - null ; Margaret Phillips, Margaret [Organ] - Organ
Composer: Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Sacred Music / Motet
14. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, for chorus, Op. 75/2
Written: 1918 Country: United Kingdom Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 1 min 17 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir)
Composer: John Linton Gardner (1917 - )
Period: Modern
Form / Genre: Carol / Anthem
15. Verbum caro factum est
Written: 1965 Country: England Recorded: 01/1990 Length - 2 min 11 sec Venue: St. Michael's Church Highgate Conductor - Ensemble: Christophers, Harry - The Sixteen (Choir) Performers: William Lockhart - Percussion ; Benedict Hoffnung - Percussion ; Margaret Phillips, Margaret [Organ] - Organ
Composer: Sarum Chant (died 1492)
Period: Medieval
Form / Genre: Chant
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 3 min 59 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
16. Nowell, Nowell, Tidings True, carol ("Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, this is the salutation")
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol
17. Nowell Sing We, carol (English)
Written: circa 1485 Country: United Kingdom Length - 2 min 12 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol
18. Gaudete Christus est natus (Piae Cantiones 1582)
Written: circa 1450 Country: United Kingdom Recorded: 10/1987 Length - 2 min 34 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol / Dance
Country: Europe
Length - 1 min 26 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
19. Hail Mary Full of Grace (15th Century)
Composer: English Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 5 min 23 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
20. Gloria in excelsis
Composer: John Sheppard (Composer) (1515 - 1558)
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Mass Ordinary / Gloria
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 3 min 54 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
21. There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (English)
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Medieval
Form / Genre: Carol
22. Owt of your slepe aryse (15th c. English), carol
Written: 1420 Country: England Length - 4 min 4 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol / Dance
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 2 min 6 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
23. Remember, O thou man (from Melismata, 1611)
Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft (1582 - 1635)
Period: Baroque
Form / Genre: Carol
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 3 min 29 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
24. Quid Petis, O Fili?, carol for 4 voices
Composer: Richard Pygott (circa 1485 - 1549)
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Motet
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 8 min 27 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
25. Lute Book Lullaby ("Sweet was the song the Virgin sung")
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Lute Song / Lullaby / Song
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 2 min 9 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
26. Lullaby, my sweet little baby, madrigal for 5 voices (SSATB) & viols
Composer: William Byrd (Composer) (1543 - 1623)
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Lullaby / Madrigal
27. Ave rex angelorum, carol for 3 voices
Written: 1588 Country: England Length - 6 min 30 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Anonymous, Egerton Manuscript 3307 (1430 - 1444)
Period: Medieval
Form / Genre: Carol / Song
28. Drive the Cold Winter Away (from John Playford's English Dancing Master)
Written: 1430-1444 Country: United Kingdom Length - 2 min 9 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Anonymous, English
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol / Dance / Song
Country: United Kingdom
Length - 2 min 5 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
29. Nowell, nowell: The boares head (Riston MS.)
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol
30. The old yeare now away is fled (English)
Written: 15th Century Country: United Kingdom Length - 3 min 34 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol
Country: United Kingdom
31. Angelus ad virginem (English)
Recorded: 1979 Length - 1 min 45 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Medieval
Form / Genre: Carol
32. Nowell: Dieu vous garde, carol (French)
Written: 13th Century Country: United Kingdom Length - 2 min 41 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol
Country: France
Length - 3 min 52 sec
Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
33. Make we joy (Ritson MS.)
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Carol
34. Verbum caro factum est, responsory motet for 6 voices
Written: 1450s Country: United Kingdom Length - 2 min 37 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: John Sheppard (Composer) (1515 - 1558)
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Motet / Responsory
35. The First Nowell (English)
Written: 1553-1558 Country: England Length - 6 min 57 sec Venue: All Hallow's Church, Gospel Oak, London,
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Form / Genre: Carol
36. Once in Royal David's City, carol
Written: by 1823 Country: England Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 5 min 40 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Henry John Gauntlett (1805 - 1876)
Period: Romantic
Form / Genre: Sacred Music / Carol
37. Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night")
Written: circa 1850 Country: United Kingdom Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 4 min 12 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Post-Romantic
Form / Genre: Carol
38. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
Written: by 1892 Country: England Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 1 min 55 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Baroque
Form / Genre: Carol
39. I Saw Three Ships, carol
Written: 1728 Country: England Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 2 min 36 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Sacred Music / Carol
40. Angels From the Realms Of Glory
Written: circa 1666 Country: England Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 1 min 34 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Romantic
Form / Genre: Carol / Hymn
41. O Little Town of Bethlehem
Written: circa 1816 Country: England Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 59 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Romantic
Form / Genre: Sacred Music / Carol
42. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
Written: 1868 Country: United States of America Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 45 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Franz Gruber (Composer) (1787 - 1863)
Period: Romantic
Form / Genre: Hymn
43. Away in a Manger
Written: 1818 Country: Austria Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 2 min 53 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Romantic
Form / Genre: Carol
44. Rocking Carol (Czech)
Written: circa 1885 Country: United States of America Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 2 min 21 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Country: Czechoslovakia
45. In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 1 min 58 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Medieval
Form / Genre: Carol
46. Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)
Written: circa 1400 Country: Germany Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 51 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Medieval
Form / Genre: Carol
47. In the Bleak Midwinter (Welsh)
Written: circa 1588 Country: France Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 1 min 55 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
48. Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)
Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 4 min 27 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
Form / Genre: Sacred Music / Carol
49. Deck the Halls (Welsh)
Written: circa 1582 Country: Europe Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 15 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Form / Genre: Carol
50. The Holly and the Ivy (English)
Written: by 1784 Country: Wales Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 1 min 13 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Form / Genre: Carol
51. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
Written: circa 1710 Country: England Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 28 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Baroque
Form / Genre: Carol
Country: England
52. See amid the winter's snow
Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 33 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
53. As I out rode this enderes night (The Coventry Shepherds' Carol) (16th century)
Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 4 min 54 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Period: Renaissance
54. Herbei, o ihr Gläubigen, carol (tune "Adeste fidelis")
Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 46 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Christmas Traditional
55. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenb
Written: circa 1815 Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 6 min 20 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Period: Romantic
Form / Genre: Carol
Written: 1840 Recorded: 04/1991 Length - 3 min 16 sec Venue: St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London, E |
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