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- # Track Artist Length
- 1 The First Nowell (Arr. Mackerras) 4:56
- 2 Away in a Manger 2:10
- 3 Up! Good Christen folk and listen: "Ding-dong, ding, ding-a-dong-a-ding" (from "Piae Cantiones", 1582) 1:18
- 4 O Little Town of Bethlehem (Arr. Philip Ledger) 3:31
- 5 I Sing of a Maiden 2:31
- 6 3 Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose 3:10
- 7 Once in Royal David's City (from "Hymns and Carols of Christmas") 5:12
- 8 Personent Hodie 2:41
- 9 12 Christmas Carols: No. 8, Myn Lyking, "I saw a fair mayden" (Allegro moderato) 3:20
- 10 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Christian Hymn for Advent) 3:33
- 11 The Holly and the Ivy (British Christmas Carol) 3:10
- 12 Silent Night (Mohr; trans. & arr. Willcocks) [1985 Digital Remaster] 3:4
- 13 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Christmas Carol, arr. David Willcocks) 2:53
- 14 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. David Willcocks) 3:32
- 15 The Lord at first Did Adam Make (Arr. by David Willcocks) 3:14
- 16 Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (After Mendelssohn's Gutenberg Cantata, WoO 9, MWV D4) 3:17
- 1 Shepherd's Pipe Carol 2:54
- 2 Infant Holy, Infant Lowly 3:15
- 3 Angel Tidings 1:44
- 4 Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (French Christmas Carol from the 17th Century) 3:25
- 5 I saw three ships come sailing by (arr. Rutter) [1988 - Remaster] 2:4
- 6 Nativity Carol 4:10
- 7 Quem pastores laudavere (from "Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410") 2:24
- 8 Rocking (Little Jesu sweetly sleep) (Czech traditional, coll. M. Shaw trans. Dearmer) [1988 - Remaster] 3:52
- 9 Here We Come A-wassailing, "Wassail Song" (English Christmas Carol) 4:9
- 11 The Infant King (Old Basque Noël) 3:9
- 13 Noël nouvelet (Arr. Rutter) 3:32
- 15 Sans Day Carol, "St. Day Carol": "Now the holly bears a berry" (Cornish Christmas Carol) 3:20
- 16 Past Three O'Clock, "Past Three A Clock" (English Carol) 2:29
- 1 The Suffolk Harmony, 1784: No. 1, Shiloh, "Methinks I see a heavenly host" 2:58
- 2 Los que fueren de buen gusto 4:16
- 3 The Singing Master's Assistant, 1778: No. 6, Judea, "A virgin unspotted" 3:19
- 4 The Babe of Bethlehem: "Ye Nations All, On You I Call" 2:40
- 5 Thys Endris Nygth: "The other night I saw a sight" (English Carol from the 15th Century) 4:45
- 6 RÃu RÃu ChÃu - Spanish Villancico, No. 46, from "Cancionero de Uppsala": "Riu, riu, chiu, la guarda ribera" 3:28
- 7 Christum wir sollen loben schon 3:2
- 8 Gaudete, Christus est natus (from "Jistebnice Cantional, 1420") 1:44
- 9 In hoc anni circulo (Christmas Carol) 2:21
- 10 Traditional: Alleluya! A Nywe Werk Is Come on Honde! (Christmas Carol) 5:50
- 11 The Old Year Now Away Is Fled (Carol for New Year's Day) 1:51
- 12 Hodie nobis coelorum rex, a 4, P. 92 3:24
- 13 Audite principes a 16, C. 123 6:17
- 14 In dulci jubilo (a 16) Pars II 3:42
- 1 The Little Drummer Boy 2:41
- 2 El nino querido 2:47
- 3 The Gift 2:9
- 4 Berceuse de Marie (Max Reger) (medley n°2) 2:21
- 5 Go Tell It on the Mountain (Arr. Ekdahl) 3:32
- 6 Joy to the World (Based on Themes by G. F. Handel) 1:56
- 7 Tochter Zion, freue dich [1988 Digital Remaster] 3:4
- 8 Zu Bethlehem geboren (German Carol from "Geistlicher Psalter, Köln, 1638") 2:21
- 9 Mary's Little Boy Child 4:39
- 10 Shchedryk (Arr. James Brett) 3:22
- 11 Il est né, le divin Enfant (Arr. Jonathan Tunick) 2:39
- 12 Minuit, chrétiens: Cantique Noël (arr. Tunick) 3:38
- 13 Marche des Rois: "De-matin, ai rescountra lou trin" (French Carol) 2:48
- 14 Noël des îles 4:44
- 15 Chanson joyeuse de Noël, a 4: "Le petit Jésus, Sauveur adorable" 5:53
- 16 Weihnachten (arr. Mackerras) [1990 Digital Remaster] 3:9
- 17 Von Himmel hoch (Arr. Mackerras) 3:15
- 18 In the Bleak Midwinter (Arr. Jonathan Tunick) 3:49
- 19 O Tannenbaum (Arr. Glenn Osser) 2:28
- 20 The Twelve Days of Christmas (Arr. Jonathan Tunick) 4:19
- 1 God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen 2:14
- 2 Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol) 2:28
- 3 We Three Kings, "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (Christmas Carol) 3:7
- 4 Angels from the Realms of Glory (arr. Charles Wood of French Carol "Les Anges dans nos campagnes") 3:9
- 5 As with Gladness Men of Old (After Conrad Kocher's "Treuer Heiland", arr. William Henry Monk) 2:29
- 6 The Coventry Carol 2:34
- 7 Yorkshire Wassail Song (We've been awhile a-wandering) [1993 - Remaster] 2:34
- 8 Masters in This Hall (French Carol) 4:2
- 9 See amid the Winter's Snow, "Hymn for Christmas Day" 3:46
- 10 Sussex Carol: "On Christmas night all Christians sing" (Christmas Carol) [Arr. Philip Ledger] 1:42
- 11 Ding Dong! Merrily on High 1:55
- 12 O Jesulein süss, BWV 493 (Chorale Version) 2:52
- 13 5 English Folk Songs: No. 5, Wassail Song 2:54
- 14 Carol with Lullaby 3:21
- 16 The Shepherds' Farewell (from L'Enfance du Christ Op. 25) [2002 - Remaster] 4:43
- 17 We Wish You a Merry Christmas (West Country) 1:38
- 1 Nowell Sing We Now All and Some 1:48
- 2 And All in the Morning 2:16
- 3 I Saw a Maiden (After a Basque Noel, arr. Edgar Pettman) 3:5
- 4 "Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem" (Arr. by Willcocks) 2:28
- 5 Where Riches is Everlastingly: "Into this world this day did come" 2:48
- 6 How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (Arr. by Willcocks) 2:13
- 7 Of the Father's Heart Begotten (Arr. Willcocks) 5:5
- 8 Resonet in laudibus (14th-Century Carol from the "Moosburg Gradual of 1360") 1:55
- 9 The Shepherds' Cradle Song 3:40
- 10 Quittez, pasteurs: "Quittez, pasteurs, vos brebis, vos houlettes" (Arr. by Rutter) 3:40
- 12 Melismata: No. 23, "Remember, O Thou Man" 3:19
- 13 Cantiones Sacrae: No. 13, Hodie Christus natus est, SwWV 163 3:50
- 14 Hosanna to the Son of David, a 6 3:14
- 15 Angelus ad virginem, "Gabriel, From Heven King" (Carol from the 13th Century) 2:38
- 16 Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English Carol) 2:4
- 17 O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) 4:47

