The Sixteen Edition - Traditional Christmas Carol Collection

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Album Summary

Conductor

• Christophers, Harry

Ensemble

• The Sixteen

Composers

• Traditional
• Franz Xaver Gruber (1787 - 1863)
• John Francis Wade (circa 1711 - 1786)
• Henry John Gauntlett (1805 - 1876)
• William J. Kirkpatrick (1838 - 1921)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Henry Walford Davies (1869 - 1941)
• Harold Edwin Darke (1888 - 1976)

Notes & Reviews:

Here's the definitive album of household favorite carols, beautifully and expertly sung. This collection of well-loved traditional Christmas carols is perfect for creating a warm seasonal atmosphere. The Sixteen's reputation for early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, and a diversity of twentieth century music is founded on the naturalness of performance, a revealing clarity and beauty of sound, precision, and a dramatic intensity of delivery. "Simple, sincere, and thoroughly engaging" -American Record Guide

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Works Details

Traditional : The first nowell

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 5 min. 38 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Gauntlett, Henry John : Once in Royal David City

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 19th Century
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : On Christmas Night "Sussex Carol"

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 1 min. 49 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : While shepherds watched their flocks by night

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1592
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : I saw three ships

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 1 min. 31 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Angels from the realms of glory

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Davies, Henry Walford : O little town of Bethlehem

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Gruber, Franz : Silent Night

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1818
• Studio/Live: Studio

Kirkpatrick, William J. : Away in a manger

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Rocking

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : In dulci jubilo

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 12th Century
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Ding Dong! Merrily on high

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 16th Century
• Studio/Live: Studio

Darke, Harold Edwin : In the bleak mid-winter

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 4 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1911
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Good King Wenceslas

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Deck the hall

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 1 min. 9 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : The Holly and the Ivy

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : God rest ye merry, gentlemen

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : See amid the winter's snow

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 4 min. 50 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child "Coventry Carol"

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 16th Century
• Studio/Live: Studio

Wade, John Francis : Adeste fideles

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 6 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1782
• Studio/Live: Studio

Mendelssohn, Felix : Festgesang "Hark! The herald angels sing"

• Conductor: Harry Christophers
• Ensemble: The Sixteen
• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1840
• Studio/Live: Studio