100 Essential Carols & Hymns for Christmas

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1Good King Wenceslas
choir vocals:
Blossom Street Singers
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Union Square Music Ltd. (for copyright use only, holding company of Union Square Music) (in 2010)
recording of:
Good King Wenceslas
lyricist:
John Mason Neale (in 1853)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist) (from 1201 until 1301)
arranger:
Thomas Helmore (in 1853)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24754)
is based on:
Tempus adest floridum
Blossom Street Singers2:30
2God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
choir vocals:
Blossom Street Singers
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Union Square Music Ltd. (for copyright use only, holding company of Union Square Music) (in 2010)
recording of:
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional, no arrangement credits here)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 394)
Blossom Street Singers1:49
3Corpus Christi Carol
choir vocals:
Angelic Voices
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Corpus Christi Carol (from the cantata “A Boy was Born” by Benjamin Britten)
composer:
Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist)
part of:
A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation V. In the bleak mid-winter
Angelic Voices2:45
4Hallelujah
choir vocals:
Regency College Choir
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 44. Chorus: “Hallelujah”
composer:
George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer) (in 1741)
librettist:
Charles Jennens
part of:
Messiah, HWV 56: Part II
Regency College Choir4:06
5The Holly and the Ivy
choir vocals:
Blossom Street Singers
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Union Square Music Ltd. (for copyright use only, holding company of Union Square Music) (in 2010)
recording of:
The Holly and the Ivy
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 514)
Blossom Street Singers2:54
6Ave Maria
choir vocals:
Spiritual Angels
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Union Square Music Ltd. (for copyright use only, holding company of Union Square Music) (in 2000)
Spiritual Angels4:17
7All People That On Earth Do Dwell
choir vocals:
London Regency Choir
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
All People That on Earth Do Dwell (tune: Old Hundredth)
lyricist:
William Kethe
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer)
London Regency Choir4:36
8Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us
choir vocals:
London Regency Choir
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us (Hymn to tune 'Mannheim')
lyricist:
James Edmeston (in 1821)
composer:
Friedrich Filitz (in 1847)
arranger:
Lowell Mason
London Regency Choir2:18
9Panis Angelicus
vocals:
Opera Angels
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Messe solennelle en la majeur, op. 12 : V. Panis Angelicus
lyricist:
St. Thomas Aquinas
composer:
César Franck (Belgian‐born French composer) (in 1860)
part of:
Messe solennelle en la majeur, op. 12
Opera Angels3:25
10Songs of the Auvergne
choir vocals:
Angelic Voices
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Chants paysans Auvergne et Quercy
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Joseph Canteloube
Angelic Voices2:22
11In dulci jubilo
choir vocals:
Choir of St Peter’s College, Oxford
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
In dulci jubilo (macaronic of English and Latin)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger and translator:
Robert Lucas Pearsall (composer)
translated version of:
In dulci iubilo (original traditional version in macaronic alteration of medieval German and Latin, use also for unspecified versions)
St Peter’s Choir (Oxford)3:25
12Hail Blessed Virgin Mary
choir vocals:
Blenheim Singers
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Charles Wood (Irish composer)
translator:
George Ratcliffe Woodward
Blenheim Singers2:32
13For Unto Us a Child Is Born
choir vocals:
Regency College Choir
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, no. 12. Chorus “For unto us a Child is born”
composer:
George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer) (in 1741)
part of:
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I
Regency College Choir4:12
14Ave verum, corpus
choir vocals:
Blenheim Singers
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
Blenheim Singers3:56
15Millennium Prayer (Lord’s Prayer)
choir vocals:
Spiritual Angels
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Union Square Music Ltd. (for copyright use only, holding company of Union Square Music) (in 2000)
recording of:
Lord’s Prayer (Auld Lang Syne)
writer:
Stephen Deal and Paul Field (UK | Musician, writer, producer)
Spiritual Angels4:36
16While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
choir vocals:
Blossom Street Singers
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Union Square Music Ltd. (for copyright use only, holding company of Union Square Music) (in 2010)
recording of:
While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night (Winchester old version)
lyricist:
Nahum Tate
composer:
Christopher Tye (English composer & organist, c. 1505–1573)
arranger:
George Kirbye
is based on:
Song of the Angels, at the Nativity of Our Blessed Saviour
is based on:
Winchester Old
Blossom Street Singers2:06
17Abide with Me
choir vocals:
London Regency Choir
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Abide With Me (set to tune ‘Eventide’)
lyricist:
Henry Francis Lyte (in 1847)
composer:
William Henry Monk (in 1861)
is based on:
Abide With Me (hymn without specified tune)
London Regency Choir5:37
18O Praise Ye the Lord
choir vocals:
London Regency Choir
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
O Praise Ye the Lord!
lyricist:
Sir Henry Williams Baker
composer:
Hubert Parry (English composer)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 427)
London Regency Choir2:43
19Pie Jesu
choir vocals:
Angelic Voices
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
recording of:
Requiem, op. 48: IV. Pie Jesu (1890, second version)
composer:
Gabriel Fauré (French composer) (from 1886 until 1900)
part of:
CHAPTER IV PIE JESU (REST)
part of:
Requiem, op. 48 (1890, second version)
Angelic Voices3:26
20Amen
choir vocals:
Choir of St Peter’s College, Oxford
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
N2K
St Peter’s Choir (Oxford)5:30
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manufactured in:the EU (Europe)
copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by:Union Square Music Ltd. (for copyright use only, holding company of Union Square Music) (in 2010)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/15013107 [info]
ASIN:UK: B0043QDNRO [info]