Description:
Another release in
EMI’s hugely successful 100 BEST series.
This 6 CD set contains all the best-loved carols that gladden and enrich the Christmas season, performed by outstanding choirs, ensembles and soloists from all over the world.
Among the vocal groups are the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, the Taverner Choir, the Bach Choir and the Wiener Sängerknaben, while the star soloists include Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Barbara Hendricks, Hermann Prey, and Kiri Te Kanawa.
This set perfectly reflects the joy and happiness of the Christmas season, but its timeless music can be enjoyed at any time of the year.
| Disk 1 |
| 1. |
The First Nowell
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| 2. |
Trash in Tibet
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| 3. |
Up! Good Christen Folk and Listen
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| 4. |
O Little Town of Bethlehem
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| 5. |
I Sing of a Maiden
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| 6. |
A Spotless Rose
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| 7. |
Once in Royal David's City
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| 8. |
Personent Hodie
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| 9. |
Myn Lyking
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| 10. |
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
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| 11. |
The Holly and the Ivy
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| 12. |
Silent Night
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| 13. |
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
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| 14. |
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
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| 15. |
The Lord at First Did Adam Make
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| 16. |
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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| Disk 2 |
| 1. |
Shepherd's Pipe Carol
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| 2. |
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
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| 3. |
Angel Tidings
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| 4. |
Quelle Est Cette Odeur Agrable?
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| 5. |
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By
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| 6. |
Nativity Carol
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| 7. |
Quem Pastores Laudavere
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| 8. |
Rocking (Little Jesu Sweetly Sleep)
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| 9. |
Here We Come a-Wassailing
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| 10. |
The Coming of Our King
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| 11. |
The Infant King
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| 12. |
Shepherds' No L
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| 13. |
No L Nouvelet
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| 14. |
Gabriel's Message
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| 15. |
Sans Day Carol, 'Now the Holly Bears a Berry'
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| 16. |
Past Three a-Clock
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| Disk 3 |
| 1. |
Methinks I See an Heav'nly Host
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| 2. |
Los Que Fueren de Buen Gusto
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| 3. |
A Virgin Unspotted
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| 4. |
The Babe of Bethlehem (Ye Nations All, On You I Call)
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| 5. |
Thys Endere Nyghth
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| 6. |
Riu, Riu, Chiu
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| 7. |
Christum Wir Sollen Loben Schon
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| 8. |
Gaudete!
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| 9. |
Verbum Caro: In Hac Anni Circulo
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| 10. |
Alleluya: A Nywe Werk Is Come On Honde
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| 11. |
The Old Year Now Away Is Fled
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| 12. |
Hodie Nobis Caelorum Rex
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| 13. |
Audite Principes a 16
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| 14. |
In Dulci Jubilo (A 16) Pars II
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| Disk 4 |
| 1. |
The Little Drummer Boy
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| 2. |
El Nino Querido (The Beloved Child)
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| 3. |
The Gift
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| 4. |
Berceuse de Marie
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| 5. |
Go Tell It On the Mountain
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| 6. |
Joy to the World
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| 7. |
Tochter Zion, Freue Dich
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| 8. |
Zu Bethlehem Geboreb
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| 9. |
Mary's Boy Child
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| 10. |
Ukraine Bell Carol
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| 11. |
Il Est N', le Divin Enfant
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| 12. |
Minuit, Christiens
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| 13. |
Cantique No L
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| 14. |
Marche Des Rois
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| 15. |
No L Des 'Les
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| 16. |
Chanson Joyeuse de No L
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| 17. |
Weihnachten
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| 18. |
Von Himmel Hoch
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| 19. |
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
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| 20. |
O Tannenbaum
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| 21. |
The Twelve Days of Christmas
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| Disk 5 |
| 1. |
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
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| 2. |
Good King Wenceslas
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| 3. |
We Three Kings of Orient Are
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| 4. |
Angels from the Realms of Glory
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| 5. |
As with Gladness Men of Old
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| 6. |
The Coventry Carol
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| 7. |
We've Been Awhile a-Wandering
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| 8. |
Masters in This Hall
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| 9. |
See Amid the Winter's Snow
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| 10. |
Sussex Carol
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| 11. |
Ding Dong! Merrily On High
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| 12. |
O Little One Sweet BWV493
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| 13. |
Wassail Song
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| 14. |
Carol with Lullaby
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| 15. |
Cowboy Carol
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| 16. |
The Shepherds' Farewell (From l'Enfance du Christ Op. 25)
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| 17. |
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (West Country)
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| Disk 6 |
| 1. |
Nowell! Nowell! Nowell!
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| 2. |
And All in the Morning
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| 3. |
I Saw a Maiden
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| 4. |
A Child Is Born in Bethlehem
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| 5. |
Where Riches Is Everlastingly
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| 6. |
How Far Is It to Bethlehem?
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| 7. |
Of the Father's Heart Begotten
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| 8. |
Resonemus Laudibus
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| 9. |
The Shepherds' Cradle Song
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| 10. |
Quittez, Pasteurs
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| 11. |
Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child
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| 12. |
Remember, O Thou Man
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| 13. |
Hodie Christus Natus Est
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| 14. |
Hosanna to the Son of David
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| 15. |
Angelus Ad Virginem
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| 16. |
My Dancing Day
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| 17. |
O Come, All Ye Faithful
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