The Best Carols in the World...Ever!

1. 1
   Hark! the herald angels sing (tune & harmony adapted W. H. Cummings; brass fanfare & accomp. and descant by Willcocks)
   3:17
2. 2
   I saw three ships
   1:43
3. 3
   The First Nowell
   4:56
4. 4
   God rest you merry, gentlemen
   3:09
5. 5
   While shepherds watched their flocks by night
   2:39
6. 6
   The Singing Master's Assistant: No. 6, Judea. "A Virgin Unspotted"
   3:19
7. 7
   Gauntlett / Ar Rutter: Once in Royal David's City
   3:06
8. 8
   In the bleak midwinter
   4:37
9. 9
   It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
   2:43
10. 10
    In dulci jubilo
    2:44
11. 11
    O little town of Bethlehem (v.3 arr. Ledger)
    3:31
12. 12
    Past three a-clock
    3:07
13. 13
    The Coventry Carol
    4:28
14. 14
    Away in a manger (arr. Thalben-Ball)
    2:20
15. 15
    Nativity Carol
    4:10
16. 16
    Unto Us is Born a Son (Words & Music from Piae Cantiones, 1584 ) [tune Arr. G. Palmer]
    1:48
17. 17
    Silent Night (wrds. Joseph Mohr, trans. & arr. Willcocks)
    3:08
18. 18
    Ding dong! Merrily on High
    1:55
19. 19
    We wish you a merry Christmas
    1:32
20. 20
    The Lord at first did Adam make
    4:10
21. 21
    Up! good Christen folk, and listen
    1:17
22. 22
    Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
    3:15
23. 23
    O little one sweet BWV493
    2:52
24. 24
    O come, O come Emmanuel (tune from 15th-century Fr. processional) [arr. T. Helmore]
    2:19
25. 25
    The Twelve Days of Christmas
    3:12
26. 26
    Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol)
    2:28
27. 27
    Cherry Tree Carol (Traditional English carol, arr. Willcocks)
    1:53
28. 28
    Joy to the World
    1:29
29. 29
    Here We Come A-wassailing, "Wassail Song" (English Christmas Carol)
    4:09
30. 30
    See amid the Winter's Snow, "Hymn for Christmas Day"
    3:46
31. 31
    Gaudete
    2:21
32. 32
    The Holly and the Ivy
    3:10
33. 33
    The Yorkshire Wassail Song: "Oh, Here We Come a Wassailing"
    2:34
34. 34
    We Three Kings, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Christmas Carol)
    3:07
35. 35
    Shepherd's Pipe Carol
    2:54
36. 36
    Masters In This Hall
    4:02
37. 37
    The Babe of Bethlehem: "Ye Nations All, On You I Call"
    2:40
38. 38
    A Spotless Rose
    3:10
39. 39
    Angel Tidings
    1:44
40. 40
    When an angel host entuned
    1:14
41. 41
    As with Gladness Men of Old (After Conrad Kocher's "Treuer Heiland", arr. William Henry Monk)
    2:29
42. 42
    Adam Lay Ibounden
    3:12
43. 43
    The Coming of our King (Traditional Polish carol, arr. Rutter)
    2:40
44. 44
    Christ was born on Christmas Day (Traditional, arr. for organ by Walford Davies)
    2:19
45. 45
    A Christmas Carol
    2:10
46. 46
    Sans Day Carol, "St. Day Carol": "Now the holly bears a berry" (Cornish Christmas Carol)
    3:20
47. 47
    Gabriel's Message
    2:45
48. 48
    The Chester Carol, 'Maker of the Heavens Fair' (arr. Boughton)
    2:30
49. 49
    Rocking
    2:04
50. 50
    The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host"
    2:58
51. 51
    Angels from the Realms of Glory (arr. Charles Wood of French Carol "Les Anges dans nos campagnes")
    3:09
52. 52
    O come, all ye faithful (harm. English Hymnal; brass fanfare & accomp., descant and last v. by Willcocks)
    4:47

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