Christmas Choice

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Tracklist

1▼Enhanced CD
#	Title	Artist	Length
1	Good King Wenceslas choir vocals: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives arranger: Sir John Stainer recording of: Good King Wenceslas lyricist: John Mason Neale (in 1853) composer: [traditional] (from 1201 until 1301) arranger: Thomas Helmore (in 1853) part of: Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24754) is based on: Tempus adest floridum	[anonymous]	2:18
2	Away in a Manger choir vocals: South Oxfordshire Young Singers solo treble vocals: Ellie Gregory conductor: Lin Marsh recording of: Away in a Manger (aka “Cradle Song” composed by William J. Kirkpatrick) additional lyricist: Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892) lyricist: [anonymous] composer: William James Kirkpatrick (in 1895) part of: Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25304) is based on: Sweet Afton (set to music by Jonathan E. Spilman, 1837) translated version of: Y Preseb	William James Kirkpatrick	2:09
3	I Saw Three Ships choir vocals: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives arranger: Sir John Stainer recording of: I Saw Three Ships lyricist and composer: [traditional] part of: Roud Folk Song Index (number: 700)	[anonymous]	1:43
4	The Coventry Carol choir vocals: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives arranger: Sir John Stainer recording of: Coventry Carol lyricist and composer: [traditional] part of: Roud Folk Song Index (number: 19028)	[anonymous]	2:45
5	While Shepherds Watched choir vocals: Harrogate Choral Society conductor: Jeffrey Wynn Davies recording of: While Shepherds Watched (Ravenscroft tune) lyricist: Nahum Tate composer: Thomas Ravenscroft	Thomas Ravenscroft	2:19
6	Nova! Nova! choir vocals: Cantores Collegiorum conductor: Jonathan Wainwright recording of: Nova! Nova! (medieval carol) lyricist and composer: [traditional]	[anonymous]	1:53
7	Puer natus est choir vocals: Cantores Collegiorum conductor: Jonathan Wainwright recording of: Puer natus est (plainchant) lyricist and composer: [traditional]	[anonymous]	4:20
8	Make We Joye choir vocals: Cantores Collegiorum conductor: Jonathan Wainwright recording of: Make We Joye (medieval carol) lyricist and composer: [traditional]	[anonymous]	3:25
9	Salvator mundi organ: Martin Souter choir vocals: Cantores Collegiorum conductor: Jonathan Wainwright recording of: Salvator mundi (use if uncertain which of the two Tallis settings is being performed) composer: Thomas Tallis	[anonymous]	4:49
10	In dulce jubilo choir vocals: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives recording of: In dulci jubilo (Pearsall Jacques) additional composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall arranger: Reginald Jacques publisher: Oxford University Press	[anonymous]	2:54
11	Es ist ein Ros entsprungen choir vocals: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives recording of: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Praetorius’ harmonisation) lyricist and composer: [traditional] arranger: Michael Praetorius (in 1609) arrangement of: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (original anonymous version)	Michael Praetorius	2:15
12	In dulce jubilo organ: Martin Souter recording of: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 composer: Johann Sebastian Bach part of: Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (number: BWV 729) version of: In dulci iubilo (original traditional version in macaronic alteration of medieval German and Latin, use also for unspecified versions)	Johann Sebastian Bach	2:40
13	Break Forth O Beauteous Shining Light choir vocals: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives recording of: Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light lyricist: Johann von Rist composer: Johann Schop translator: John Troutbeck translated version of: Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248: Teil II, XII. Choral „Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht“	Johann Sebastian Bach	1:37
14	Wachet auf organ: Martin Souter recording of: Sechs Choräle von Verschiedener Art (Schübler-Choräle): Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 composer: Johann Sebastian Bach part of: Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (number: BWV 645) is based on: Kantate, BWV 140 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme": IV. Choral (Tenor) “Zion hört die Wächter singen” part of: Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art	Johann Sebastian Bach	4:29
15	Masters in This Hall choir vocals: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives recording of: Masters in This Hall lyricist: William Morris composer: [traditional]	[anonymous]	6:36
16	What Shall We Sing at Christmas? piano: Martin Souter soprano vocals: Lesley Echo Ross tenor vocals: Jozik Koc recording of: What Shall We Sing at Christmas? writer: R.G. Harvey medley of: Home! Sweet Home! (Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble there's no place like home) medley of: Rule, Britannia! medley of: We Won’t Go Home ’til Morning medley of: Auld Lang Syne (original Scots version, lyrics by Robert Burns)	[anonymous]	4:22
17	A Christmas Pastoral organ: Martin Souter recording of: A Christmas Pastoral composer: B.L. Selby	[anonymous]	7:06
18	The First Noel choir vocals: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford conductor: Grayston Ives arranger: Sir John Stainer recording of: The First Nowell lyricist, writer and composer: [traditional]	[anonymous]	4:43

Credits

Release

manufactured in:	the UK

illustration:	Sir Edward Burne-Jones

manufactured by:	PMDC
copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by:	Isis Records (in 1997)

part of:	All Time Great Music Collection (number: 28) (order: 2)

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/release/13307666 [info]

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