Contents:
- Anon., England, early C14: Alleluya psallat**
- Anon. C17: Patapan
- Anon., traditional: Here We Come a-Wassailing*
- Anon. London Wait: Past Three o’Clock
- Anon. Trad., England: I Saw Three Ships
- Anon. Trad., England: The Coventry Carol
- Anon. C16 (spring carol): Good King Wenceslas (text: J.M. Neale, C19)
- Joseph Möhr & Hans Grüber: Silent Night
- Anon., trad: Elizabethan popular: The Old Year Now (Greensleeves)*
- J.H. Hopkins: Hymn: We Three Kings of Orient Are
- Anon., traditional: Down in Yon Forest*
- Anon. Trad., England: The First Nowell
- Anon. Czech Carol: Rocking (Hajej, nynjej)
- Anon. England: Christmas carol: God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen
- Anon: Dormi Jesu
- Anon. Ca.C15: Boar’s Head Carol
- Anon. medieval & Gustav Holst (arr.): Lullay My Liking
- E.H. Sears & R.S. Willis: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Anon. Germany & Robert Herrick, 1647: Herrick’s Carol
- C.J. Alexander & H.J. Gauntlett: Once in Royal David’s City
- Anon. medieval/Cecil Sharp (arr.): Carol: The Holly and the Ivy
- Anon. Germany (Scheidt & J.S.Bach (harmonised): O Little One Sweet
- Anon. medieval, (ca 1425): Processional song of the Nuns of Chester
- Anon. C16: Winter-Rose
- G.F. Handel (attr.): Joy to the World (text: Isaac Watts)*
- Anon. C14, arr. Bach: Carol: In Dulci Jubilo (harmonised: J S Bach)
- Anon., traditional, old Welsh: Deck the Halls*
- Anon. William Ballet’s Lute-book Lullaby* 2
- Ye Shepherds leave*
- Anon., traditional, old Besançon: Carol tune: People Look East*
- Anon., traditional, Blessed be that Maid Mary*
- Anon., ca 1520-30: Sir Christemas*
- Anon.C15, arr.M.Praetorius.: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming*
- Anon.: The Twelve Days of Christmas*
- Johann Georg Ebeling: All My Heart This Night Rejoices*
- Anon., traditional, Czech: The Birds*
- Anon. Trad., England: Wassail Song* (counter-tenor version)
- Anon., traditional, England (west country): A Merry Christmas*
Alfred Deller, counter-tenor & director Deller Consort / Desmond Dupré, lute / Stanley Taylor, recorder / April Cantelo, soprano /Gerald English, tenor / Maurice Bevan, baritone *Group as above but instead sopranos Eileen Poulter & Mary Thomas, and additional tenor Wilfred Brown; ** Deller Consort with Musica Antiqua Wien / René Clemencic
“Opening vivaciously, this collection simulates a visiting village group with pleasing simplicity …Many highlights from Deller himself, on magical form here” (Penguin Guide)
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