The Christmas Collection

The Christmas Collection

by Harry Christophers, The Sixteen
The Christmas Collection

The Christmas Collection

by Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

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Product Details

Release Date: 09/04/2007
Label: Coro
UPC: 0828021605420
Rank: 218032

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Make we joy now in this Fest, carol arrangement for chorus (Christmas Carols No. 1)
  2. Coventry Carol
  3. A Babe Is Born
  4. The Virgin's Cradle Hymn (Dormi, Jesu!)
  5. A Hymn to the Virgin, for double chorus
  6. The Lamb, for chorus
  7. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Procession
  8. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Wolcum yole!
  9. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~There is no rose
  10. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~That y¿¿nge child
  11. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Balulalow
  12. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~As dew in Aprille
  13. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~This little Babe
  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~In freezing winter night
  16. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Spring Carol
  17. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Deo Gracias!
  18. A Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Recession
  19. Sing Lullaby, carol-anthem for chorus
  20. Lute Book Lullaby
  21. A Spotless Rose, for chorus
  22. Corpus Christi
  23. Balulalow, for voice & piano
  24. Benedicamus Domino
  25. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, for chorus, Op. 75/2

Disc 2

  1. Verbum caro factum est
  2. Nowell, Nowell, Tidings True ("Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, this is the salutation")
  3. Nowell Sing We (English)
  4. Gaudete Christus est natus (Piae Cantiones 1582)
  5. Hail Mary Full of Grace (15th Century)
  6. Gloria in excelsis
  7. There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (English)
  8. Owt of your slepe aryse (15th c. English), carol
  9. Remember, O thou man (from Melismata, 1611)
  10. Quid Petis, O Fili?, carol for 4 voices
  11. Lute Book Lullaby ("Sweet was the song the Virgin sung")
  12. Lullaby, my sweet little baby, madrigal for 5 voices (SSATB) & viols
  13. Ave rex angelorum, carol for 3 voices
  14. Drive the Cold Winter Away (from John Playford's English Dancing Master)
  15. Nowell, nowell: The boares head (Riston MS.)
  16. The old yeare now away is fled (English)
  17. Angelus ad virginem (English)
  18. Nowell: Dieu vous garde, carol (French)
  19. Make we joy (Ritson MS.)
  20. Verbum caro factum est, responsory motet for 6 voices

Disc 3

  1. The First Nowell (English)
  2. Once in Royal David's City
  3. Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night")
  4. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
  5. I Saw Three Ships
  6. Angels From the Realms Of Glory
  7. O Little Town of Bethlehem
  8. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
  9. Away in a Manger
  10. Rocking Carol (Czech)
  11. In dulci jubilo (Pi¿¿ Cantiones)
  12. Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)
  13. In the Bleak Midwinter (Welsh)
  14. Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)
  15. Deck the Halls (Welsh)
  16. The Holly and the Ivy (English)
  17. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
  18. See amid the winter's snow
  19. As I out rode this enderes night (The Coventry Shepherds' Carol) (16th century)
  20. Herbei, o ihr Gl¿¿ubigen, carol (tune "Adeste fidelis")
  21. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Harry Christophers   Primary Artist,Conductor
The Sixteen   Primary Artist,Ensemble,Choir/Chorus,Vocal Ensemble
Peter Burrows   Tenor (Vocal)
Nicola Jenkin   Soloist,Soprano (Vocal)
Christopher Hodges   Bass (Vocal)
Fiona Clarke   Soloist,Soprano (Vocal)
Simon Birchall   Bass (Vocal)
Benedict Hoffnung   Percussion
William Lockhart   Percussion
Ruth Dean   Soloist,Soprano (Vocal)
Francis Steele   Soloist,Bass (Vocal)
Philip Newton   Alto (Vocals)
Timothy Jones   Soloist,Bass (Vocal)
Deborah Miles-Johnson   Soloist,Alto (Vocals)
Libby Crabtree   Soprano (Vocal)
Neil MacKenzie   Soloist,Tenor (Vocal)
Sioned Williams   Harp
Patricia Forbes   Soprano (Vocal)
David Roy   Soloist,Tenor (Vocal)
Robin Jeffrey   Lute,Guitar
Jeremy White   Soloist,Bass (Vocal)
Christopher Royall   Alto (Vocals)
Andrew Carwood   Soloist,Tenor (Vocal)
Margaret Phillips   Organ
Sally Dunkley   Soloist,Soprano (Vocal)
Robin Barda   Soloist,Alto (Vocals)

Technical Credits

Mark Brown   Producer
Andrew Giles   Design
Peter Hayward   Producer
Matthew Power   Photography
Nicolas Robertson   Liner Notes
Richard Boxall   Design
Stephen Johns   Producer
Harry Christophers   Liner Notes
Mike Hatch   Engineer
Jeremy White   Text Translation
Julian Millard   Mastering
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