BO HOLTEN

1

Nowell Sing We Now

3:56

Micaela Haslam soprano

BBC commission; premiere recording

STEVE MARTLAND

Three Carols

2

From lands that see the sun arise

2:40

3

Make we joy

2:36

4

There is no Rose of such virtue

4:38

Premiere recording

CARL RUTTI

5

I wonder as I wander

2:15

Premiere recording of version for choir and organ

JUDITH WEIR

6

Illuminare, Jerusalem

2:28

JUDITH BINGHAM

7

The Shepherd's Gift

3:48

BBC commission; premiere recording

FRANCIS GRIER

8

Corpus Christi Carol

3:44

Pamela Priestley-Smith soprano

Kim Porter mezzo-soprano

THOMAS ADES

9

The Fayrfax Carol

4:31

CONRAD SUSA

10

The Shepherds Sing

3:15

JEAN BELMONT

11

Nativitas

2:33

JAMES MACMILLAN

12

Seinte Mari Moder Milde

7:12

Margaret Feaviour soprano

Carolyn Foulkes soprano

Robert Johnston tenor

Premiere recording

JOHN TAVENER

13

Today the Virgin

3:01

JERZY KORNOWICZ

14

Oczekiwanie (Waiting)

9:09

Margaret Feaviour soprano

Neil MacKenzie tenor

BBC commission; premiere recording

SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT

15

Carol

3:42

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES

16

One star, at last

3:33

JOHN HARBISON

17

O Magnum Mysterium

2:17

Premiere recording

ROXANNA PANUFNIK

18

Sleep, little Jesus, sleep

3:19

Jennifer Adams-Barbaro soprano

HOWARD GOODALL

19

Romance of the Angels

4:32

BBC commission; premiere recording

JOHN HARLE

20

Mrs Beeton's Christmas Plum Pudding (average cost: 3 shillings and 6d)

4:08

Speakers: Eleanor Bron, Charles Collingwood

BBC commission; premiere recording

Stephen Cleobury

Robert Quinney organ