CAROLS FROM NEW COLLEGE

Recorded in New College Chapel, Oxford, 1984

18-century, attrib J F Wade

1     O come all ye faithful

descant / last verse harm. by David Willcocks

Boris Ord (1897-1961)

2     Adam lay ybounden

Richard Rodney Bennett (b. 1936)

3     Out of your sleep arise and wake

Basque carol

4     The angel Gabriel

arr. Edgar Pettman (1865-1943)

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

5     A spotless rose

Jeremy Cox baritone

16th-century French, arr. Charles Wood

6     Ding dong! merrily on high

Harold Darke (1888-1976)

7     In the bleak midwinter

Jeremy Pound treble ; Tim Tobinson tenor

Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)

8     The holly and the ivy

Andrew Carter (b. 1939)

9     I wonder as I wander

William Mathias (1934-1992)

10    A babe is born all of may

Traditional, arranged David Willcocks (b. 1919)

11   On Christmas night (Sussex Carol)

Trad., arr. R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

12   This is the truth sent from above

Daniel Johnston treble

Traditional, arranged Charles Wood

13   A Virgin most pure

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

14   Here is the little door

Peter Wishart (1921-1984)

15   Alleluya, a new work is come on hand

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

16   Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child

Daniel Johnston treble

14th-century German carol

17   In dulci jubilo

arranged by R L Pearsall

John Joubert (b.1927)

18   There is no rose

Czech traditional carol

19   Rocking

arranged by Edward Higginbottom

William Mathias (1934-1992)

20   Wassail

Henry Gauntlett (1805-1876)

21   Once in royal David's city

descant / last verse harm. by David Willcocks