Christmas Carol Collection 2013

This year’s LibriVox selection of traditional Christmas carols, hymns and songs in English, French, German, Greek, Italian and Ukrainian. We wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas. English: All Children are on Christmas Eve – Words & Music: Rev. Charles L. Hutchins (1838-1920). Angels from the Realms of Glory – Words: James Montgomery (1771-1854); Music: Henry T. Smart (1813-1879). Angels We Have Heard on High – Words: French Carol, trans. James Chadwick (1813-1882). Music: ‘Gloria’ French carol melody. The Babe of Bethlehem – Old Kentish carol, arr. Henry R. Bramley (1833-1917) & John Stainer (1840-1901). The First Nowell – traditional English carol, first published in its current form in Carols Ancient and Modern (1823) edited by William Sandys. Good King Wenceslas – Words: John Mason Neale (1818-1866). Music: from Piae Cantiones (1582) arr. Henry R. Bramley (1833-1917) & John Stainer (1840-1901). Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Words: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) Music: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), arr. William H. Cummings (1831-1915). The Holly and the Ivy – Words: Traditional. Music: Traditional, arr. Henry R. Bramley (1833-1917) & John Stainer (1840-1901). I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Words: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Music: John B. Calkin (1827-1905). In Little Bethlehem – Words: Katherine Parker; Music: George W. Wilmot. In Beginner and Primary Songs for use in Sunday School and the Home. In the Bleak Midwinter – Words: Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894); Music: Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934). Joy to the World – Words: Words: Isaac Watts (1674 – 1748); Music: ‘Antioch’ pieced together from ‘Messiah’ by George F. Handel (1685 – 1759) arr. Lowell Mason (1792-1872). Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Words: Words: v. 1-2, 15th Century German, trans. Theodore Baker ( 1851?1934); v. 3,4 Fridrich Layriz (1808-1859), trans. Harriet Reynolds Krauth (1845-1925); v. 5, 15th Century German, trans. John C. Mattes(1876-1948). Music: ‘Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen (Rhythmic)’ German from K?ln, 1599, arr. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621). Masters in this Hall, or, Nowell, Sing We Clear – Words: William Morris (1834-1896); Music: French Traditional. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – Words: translated from the Latin by John Mason Neale (1818-1866). Music: ‘Veni Emmanuel’, 15th Century. Rise Up, Shepherd an’ Foller – Words & Music: American Traditional arr. Franklin Robinson. Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sung – From William Ballet’s Lute Book c.1600. Music: arr. Dr. Charles Wood (1866?1926). Wassail! Wassail All Over the Town! (Gloucestershire Wassail) – Words & Music: English Traditional. We Three Kings of Orient Are – Words & Music: Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Jr. D.D. (1821-1891). What Child is This? – Words: William Chatterton Dix (1837-1898). Music: English Traditional. fran?ais (French):. Dans cette ?table – Words: French Traditional; Music: Charles Gounod (1818-1893). Deutsch (German):. Es kommt ein Schiff geladen – Words: Daniel Sudermann (1550 – 1631?); Music: first published in Andernacher Gesangbuch 1608. ???????? (Greek):. I Parthenos Simeron (? ???????? ???????) or Today the Virgin – Words and music: St. Romanos the Melodist (5th Century). italiano (Italian):. Canzone di Natale – Music: Arranged by Alberto Bimboni. ?????????? ???? (Ukrainian):. ?????? (Kolyada) – Words and music: Traditional Ukrainian.. ??? ?????? ????????… (Prorizdvo Khrystove) – Words and music: Traditional Ukrainian.