The First Christmas: Halsey / Elizabethan Singers, Preston(Org)W.Parry(P)(2CD)

The First Christmas

CD1
1 I saw three ships come sailing in
2 The first Christmas
3 Deck the halls with boughs of holly
4 Dormi Jesu
5 Wassail Song
6 Our Lady’s Song
7 Unto us is born a son
8 There is no rose of such virtue
9 We wish you a Merry Christmas
10 Silent night
11 The Boar’s Head Carol
12 Balulalow
13 Out of your sleep arise
14 Ecce Puer
15 What cheer?
16 From heaven winging
17 Welcome Yule!
18 Ave Maria - Hail, blessed flower
19 The first Nowell
20 God rest ye merry, gentlemen
21 Infant holy
22 A babe is born
23 Ding! Dong! Merrily on High
24 Away in a manger
25 When Christ was born of Mary free
26 The holly and the ivy

CD2
1 Salutation Carol
2 Shepherds! shake off your drowsy sleep
3 Remember, O thou man
4 Good King Wenceslas
5 The old year now is fled
6 Eastern Monarchs
7 O leave your sheep
8 Wassail Carol
9 Jesu, Thou art our Saviour
10 A Little Child there is yborn, Op. 48
11 The sorrows of Mary
12 What tidings?
13 In Excelsis Gloria
14 Balulalow
15 Alleluya, a New Work is come on Hand
16 Coventry Carol
17 The Oxen
18 Laetabundus
19 Ave Plena Gracia
20 The Virgin and Child
21 The Shout - an Easter carol

The Elizabethan Singers / Louis Halsey, conductor

Recording producers: Michael Bremner (CD1: 1-19, CD2, 8-21); Andrew Raeburn (CD1: 20-26, CD2: 1-7) Recording engineers: Michael Mailes (CD1: 1-19), Stanley Goodall (CD2, 8-21); unidentified (CD1: 20-26, CD2: 1-7) Recording locations: Holy Trinity Church, Kensington, London, UK, July 1963 (CD1: 20-26, CD2: 1-7), April 1965 (CD1: 1-19), April 1966 (CD2: 8-21)