A Minstrel’s Christmas

1. Anon., England, early C14: Alleluya psallat** 1:10

2. Anon. C17: Patapan 0:58

3. Anon., traditional: Here We Come a-Wassailing* 2:16

4. Anon. London Wait: Past Three o'Clock 1:53

5. Anon. Trad., England: I Saw Three Ships 2:02

6. Anon. Trad., England: The Coventry Carol 2:21

7. Anon. C16 (spring carol): Good King Wenceslas (text: J.M. Neale, C19) 2:44

8. Joseph Möhr & Hans Grüber: Silent Night 1:58

9. Anon., trad: Elizabethan popular: The Old Year Now (Greensleeves)* 2:00

10. J.H. Hopkins: Hymn: We Three Kings of Orient Are 2:20

11. Anon., traditional: Down in Yon Forest* 2:25

12. Anon. Trad., England: The First Nowell 3:09

13. Anon. Czech Carol: Rocking (Hajej, nynjej) 1:29

14. Anon. England: Christmas carol: God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen 2:35

15. Anon: Dormi Jesu 1:24

16. Anon. Ca.C15: Boar's Head Carol 1:44

17. Anon. medieval & Gustav Holst (arr.): Lullay My Liking 2:00

18. E.H. Sears & R.S. Willis: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear 2:23

19. Anon. Germany & Robert Herrick, 1647: Herrick's Carol 1:37

20. C.J. Alexander & H.J. Gauntlett: Once in Royal David's City 2:36

21. Anon. medieval/Cecil Sharp (arr.): Carol: The Holly and the Ivy 2:43

22. Anon. Germany (Scheidt & J.S.Bach (harmonised): O Little One Sweet 2:39

23. Anon. medieval, (ca 1425): Processional song of the Nuns of Chester 1:41

24. Anon. C16: Winter-Rose 1:41

25. G.F. Handel (attr.): Joy to the World (text: Isaac Watts)* 1:33

26. Anon. C14, arr. Bach: Carol: In Dulci Jubilo (harmonised: J S Bach) 2:29

27. Anon., traditional, old Welsh: Deck the Halls* 1:08

28. Anon. William Ballet's Lute-book Lullaby* 2:13

29. Ye Shepherds leave* 1:48

30. Anon., traditional, old Besançon: Carol tune: People Look East* 1:55

31. Anon., traditional, Blessed be that Maid Mary* 1:25

32. Anon., ca 1520-30: Sir Christemas* 2:53

33. Anon.C15, arr.M.Praetorius.: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming* 2:22

34. Anon.: The Twelve Days of Christmas* 2:41

35. Johann Georg Ebeling: All My Heart This Night Rejoices* 2:40

36. Anon., traditional, Czech: The Birds* 1:06

37. Anon. Trad., England: Wassail Song* (counter-tenor version) 1:30

38. Anon., traditional, England (west country): A Merry Christmas* 1:37