Christmas with the King’s Singers

1. Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen (Michael Praetorius Musae Sioniae,
2. Pt. 6: No. 53)
3. Here we come a wassailing (trad. English)
4. It came upon the midnight clear (words: Sears · melody: Willis)
5. The Little Drummer Boy (Davis, Onorati, Simeone)
6. I wonder as I wander (trad. Appalachian)
7. We wish you a merry Christmas (trad. West Country)
8. Ding dong! Merrily on high (Woodward, 16th-cent. French)
9. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Mohr/Gruber)
10. O little town of Bethlehem (Brooks/Redner)
11. A Little Christmas Music – Medley à la Mozart (Daryl Runswick)
12. The Coventry Carol „Lully, lulla“ (16th-cent. English)
13. The Boar’s Head Carol (c. 15th-cent. English/18th-cent. English)
14. Gaudete (Piae cantiones, 1582)
15. Joy to the World (Watts, from Ps.84/19th-cent. English)
16. Ríu, ríu, chíu (Spanish carol of the Immaculate Conception)
17. EI niño querido (The beloved child)
18. Nit de vetlla (Villancico catalán – Peasants harvesting fruit greet the birth)
19. Deck the Hall (trad. Welsh)
20. The Wexford Carol (trad. lrish)
21. The Gift „Simple Gifts“
22. Patapan and Farandole

A Little Christmas Music: If you’ve ever sung in a church choir or muffled up and sallied forth on a starry night in the bleak midwinter to go singing round the houses with a few friends, or if your idea of Christmas is a candle-lit hall decked with boughs of holly and distant voices singing familiar carols then you will derive real nostalgic cheer from this album – a festive Christmas journey with the King’s Singers and a cheeky homage in the form of a Mozart medley.