Composers include: Anonyme ; Cecil Broadhurst ; John Goss ; Jester Hairston ; Max Reger ; John Rutter ; Ralph Vaughan William

Performers include: Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Claire College Singers, Cambridge; Taverner Consort, Choir and Players ; Huddersfield Choral Society ; Bach Choir ; Hallé Choir

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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