Christmas Carols [Box set, Import]

Various Artists (Composer), Andrew Parrott (Conductor), Taverner Consort (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Taverner Consort
• Conductor: Andrew Parrott
• Composer: Various Artists
• Audio CD (November 6, 2007)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Virgin Classics
• ASIN: B000W03RO4
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,339 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Methinks I See a Heavenly Host

2. While shepherds watched their flocks by night (A 2nd Collection of Sacred Music. York, ca. 1820)

3. Marizápalos a Io divino ('Serafin que con dulce harmonía')

4. Los que Fueren de Buen Gusto

5. Magnificat super 'Angelus ad pastores' (from Megalynodia Sionia)

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Work(s): In dulci jubilo (a 16) Pars I

2. Noël Grand Jeu et Duo, for organ

3. Canons (5) on Latin Texts for voice, clarinet & bass clarinet, Op. 16: Dormi Jesu

4. Adeste fidelis, for female chorus (incomplete), S. 49a

5. Hodie nobis caelorum Rex, motet for 4 voices, P. 92

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, emmanuel), carol

2. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)

3. Il est né, le divin enfant (French)

4. Nova, Nova, Ave fit ex Eva

5. La Marche des Rois (Provençal carol)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Tune: Winchester)

2. We Three Kings of Orient Are

3. I Wonder As I Wander

4. Qui Creavit Coelum, hymn

5. There Is No Rose, for chorus, Op. 14

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas magic, December 17, 2010

By 

George Zadorozny (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christmas Carols (Audio CD)

With all respect to the other reviewer who disliked this CD because of its variety, I must disagree with him. To my ear, this is Christmas singing at its magical best. De gustibus non est disputandum, as they say . . . But trying to speak objectively about subjective things, I say, this is a snowy-splendid CD!

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A soup of styles of music which lack coherence, December 11, 2008

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Aquinas "summa" (celestial heights, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christmas Carols (MP3 Download)

Whilst this set of CDs is good value, it does not really hang together. There is simply too vast a range of musical styles being covered from Liszt's piano arrangment to a dreadful german folksy rendition of Silent night and some baroque thrown in. Its like an Irish stew - everything has been thrown in!