A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols [1998 Recording] (1999)

Track Listing

1. Once in Royal David's City, carol
2. The Bidding Prayer
3. Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen (Piae cantiones)
4. The Truth From Above
5. First Lesson - Genesis 3:8-15

1. Once in Royal David's City, carol
2. The Bidding Prayer
3. Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen (Piae cantiones)
4. The Truth From Above
5. First Lesson - Genesis 3:8-15
6. Adam Lay Y-Bounden, carol
7. Second Lesson - Genesis 22:15-18
8. Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night")
9. In the Bleak Midwinter
10. Third Lesson - Isaiah 9:2-7
11. In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
12. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)
13. Fourth Lesson - Isaiah 11:1-9
14. A Tender Shoot, for chorus
15. The Lamb, for chorus
16. Fifth Lesson - St. Luke 1:26-38
17. Gabriel's Message (Basque)
18. Joys Seven (Joshua Himes's Millennial Harp, 1842)
19. Sixth Lesson - St. Luke 2:1-7
20. Dormi Jesu (The Virgin's Cradle Hymn)
21. Riu, riu, chiu!, carol (Spanish)
22. Seventh Lesson - St. Luke 2:8-16
23. The Fayrfax Carol, for chorus (& organ)
24. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
25. Eighth Lesson - St. Matthew 2:1-11
26. I Saw Three Ships, carol
27. Illuminare, Jerusalem, carol
28. Ninth Lesson - St. John 1:1-14
29. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)
30. Blessing
31. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival)
32. In dulci jubilo (II), chorale prelude for organ, BWV 729 (BC K115)