50 carols, mostly for SATB, some unaccompanied, and some having accompanied. Many of the carols are from traditional sources, rearranged, as well as carols written especially for this volume by composers including Walton, Britten, Rodney Bennett, and Mathias.
Contents
Bainton: A babe is born I wys
Scheidt/Willcocks: A child is born in Bethlehem
Ord: Adam lay ybounden
Ebeling: All my heart this night rejoices
Walton: All this time
Trevor: The angels and the shepherds
Willcocks: The cherry tree carol
Rutter: Come leave your sheep
Willcocks: Come, thou Redeemer of the earth
Willcocks: Deck the hall
Willcocks: Ding dong! merrily on high
Rutter: Down in yon forest
Willcocks: Gabriel's message
Wood: Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary
Mendelssohn: Hark! the herald angels sing
Rutter: He is born the divine Christ child
Rutter: Here we come a-wassailing
Walford Davies: The holly and the ivy
Willcocks: How far is it to Bethlehem?
Pettman: I saw a maiden
Hadley: I sing of a maiden
Rutter: Il est ne le divin enfant
Willcocks: The Infant King
Sullivan/Willcocks: It came upon the midnight clear
Willcocks: The Lord at first did Adam make
Willcocks: Masters in this hall
Palestrina: Matin responsory
Terry: Myn lyking
Rutter: Nativity carol
Britten: A New Year carol
Rutter: Noel nouvelet
Rutter: Nowell, sing nowell
Wade: O come, all ye faithful
Willcocks: O come, O come, Emmanuel
Willcocks: Of the father's heart begotten
Gauntlett/Mann/Willcocks: Once in royal David's city