A Celebration of Christmas: Carols Through the Ages by Alfred Deller & the Deller Consort

A Celebration of Christmas: Carols Through the Ages

Released: January 4, 1994

Track Listing

1		Patapan
2		We Three Kings of Orient Are
3		I Saw Three Ships
4		Coventry Carol (2): "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"
5		It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
6		Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)
7		Once in Royal David's City
8		Hajej, nynej, Jezishku (Rocking Carol) (Czech)
9		The First Nowell (English)
10		God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
11		Wither's Rocking Hymn ("Sweet baby, sleep! What ails my dear?"), carol
12		Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
13		[Unspecified] Wassail Song
14		Dormi Jesu!
15		The Boar's Head Carol
16		Past Three O'clock, carol (English)
17		Lullay My Liking, carol (English)
18		Adam lay ybounden, carol (English)
19		Herrick's Carol (German)
20		Angelus ad virginem (English)
21		The Holly and the Ivy (English)
22		O Little One Sweet (traditional tune, harmonized by Bach)
23		Song of the Nuns of Chester ("The Chester Carol") (English)
24		Winter-Rose
25		In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
26		Deck the Halls (Welsh)
27		Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssoh
28		Lute Book Lullaby ("Sweet was the song the Virgin sung")
29		Quittez pasteurs (O come away ye shepherds) (French)
30		Joy to the World (theme by Handel)
31		Down in Yon Forest, carol (English)
32		People, Look East! (Besançon carol)
33		Blessed Be That Maid Marie (English)
34		Sir Christèmas
35		Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming), for chorus
36		O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
37		The Twelve Days of Christmas
38		Wassail Song ("Here We Come A-Wassailing"), carol
39		All my heart this night rejoices, hymn
40		Joseph dearest, Joseph mine (Joseph, lieber Joseph mein), carol
41		I Saw Three Ships
42		How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (Children's Song of the Nativity) (Tune: St
43		The Birds
44		Greensleeves (Balcarres Lute Book)
45		We Wish You a Merry Christmas (English)
46		Gymel of Guilelmus Monachus [Instrumental]
47		Nowell, Nowell, Tidings True ("Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, this is the salu
48		Sanctus [Instrumental]
49		Blessed Be Thou, Queen of Heaven
50		Qui Natus Est