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The Best Carols in the World...Ever! | 
 enlarge | Creators: Gareth Morrell, Simon Vaughan, Stephen Varcoe, Anonymous, William Billings, Harold Darke, Henry John Gauntlett, John Goss, Franz Xaver Gruber, John Henry, Jr. Hopkins, Herbert Howells, Dr. Reginald Jacques, William James Kirkpatrick, Conrad Kocher, Lowell Mason, Felix Mendelssohn, John Rutter, Christmas Traditional, John Francis Wade, William Walker
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 66923
UPC: 724356692329
EAN: 0724356692329
Release Date: October 4, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Mendelssohn, Felix | | • | I Saw Three Ships | | • | The First Nowell | | • | God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen | | • | While Shepherds Watched | | • | A Virgin Unspotted - Billings | | • | Once in Royal David's City - Gauntlett, Henry Jo | | • | In the Bleak Midwinter - Darke | | • | It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | | • | In Dulci Jubilo | | • | O Little Town of Bethlehem | | • | Past Three O'Clock | | • | The Coventry Carol | | • | Away in a Manger - Kirkpatrick | | • | Nativity Carol - Rutter, John | | • | Unto Us Is Born a Son | | • | Silent Night - Gruber, Franz | | • | Ding Dong Merrily on High | | • | We Wish You a Merry Christmas | | • | The Lord at First Did Adam Make | | • | Up! Good Christian Folk and Listen/Up! Good Christian Folk and Listen | | • | Infant Holy, Infant Lowly | | • | O Little One Sweet | | • | O Come, O Come Emmanuel | | • | The Twelve Days of Christmas |
Disc 2
| • | Good King Wenceslas | | • | Cherry Tree Carol | | • | Joy to the World! - Mason | | • | Here We Come A-Wassailing | | • | See Amid the Winter's Snow - Goss | | • | Gaudete | | • | The Holly and the Ivy | | • | We've Been a While A-Wandering | | • | We Three Kings of Orient Are - Hopkins | | • | Shepherd's Pipe Carol - Rutter, John | | • | Masters in This Hall | | • | The Babe of Bethlehem - Walker | | • | A Spotless Rose - Howells | | • | Angel Tidings | | • | When an Angel Host Entuned - Jacques | | • | As with Gladness Men of Old - Kocher | | • | Adam Lay Ibounden - Blake | | • | The Coming of Our King | | • | Christ Was Born on Christmas Day | | • | A Christmas Carol | | • | Sans Day Carol | | • | Gabriel's Message | | • | The Chester Carol | | • | Rocking | | • | Methinks I See an Heav'nly Host - Billings | | • | Angels from the Realms of Glory | | • | O Come, All Ye Faithful |
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| Customer Reviews:
A vital ingredient to an excellent Christmas carol collection November 25, 2008
M. Peever (North Carolina)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Best Carols in the World...Ever! is not the only CD needed to build an excellent Christmas carol collection, but it is definitely a key ingredient. My CD shelves are arranged left-to-right in roughly descending order of enjoyment. The Best Carols in the World...Ever! sits on the far left, accompanied by Noel: Christmas at King's, A Traditional Christmas Carol Collection, and Christmas with the Academy.
The album is interesting just for the breadth of carols on it: "Gaudete," "A Virgin Unspotted," "Masters in This Hall," and "Methinks I See an Heav'nly Host" are included along with more standard offerings like "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "Once in Royal David's City." And the breadth of carols is highlighted by excellent performances and high-quality recording.
The artists include Mediaeval Baebes, Choir Of King's College Cambridge, and Taverner Choir. These are excellent performers with solid material. And the recording quality is a bonus: I've more than one excellent Christmas album blemished with tape artifacts and other technical flaws. It can be frustrating to hear a gorgeous piece of music touched with a fault that's not from either the music or the performance. This CD is generally free from those flaws.
Really, there is no glaring fault on this album. I can't call it perfect:that would infer no other albums are necessary. But it's really a very excellent recording, at an extremely attractive price. It is an integral piece of my Christmas music collection.
52 carols sung by 7 English choirs - brilliant November 20, 2007
Peter Durward Harris (Leicester England)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you love Christmas carols, you will find this to be a real treasure trove. This double-CD is compiled from various Christmas albums recorded by English choirs. Between them, they seem to have included every famous carol and a lot of obscure ones.
The seven choirs are the choir of King's college (Cambridge), the Bach Choir (London), the Clare College singers (Cambridge), the Temple Church choir (London), the Taverners choir, the Midiaevel Baebes and the Huddersfield choral society. A brief history of each is included in the liner notes.
Some of these carols are world famous including Hark the herald angels sing, The first noel, O little town of Bethlehem, Away in a manger, Silent night, Joy to the world, We three kings and O come all ye faithful.
Some others are famous in Britain but (judged on what I've seen of American Christmas albums) are not especially well known in America. These include While shepherds watched, Once in Royal David's city, In the bleak midwinter and The holly and the ivy. I have come across American covers of these songs - but not often.
There are yet other songs which are obscure even to me, but it's great to have them all in one collection. At the import price, it might look expensive, but what would you have to spend to get all these Christmas carols any other way?
If you enjoy Christmas carols, I doubt if you'll find a better collection anywhere, although a modified version of this compilation (Best Christmas Carols...Ever is also available with a different sequence and some different tracks. Really, there's not much to choose between them in quality, so compare the prices and availability and select accordingly.
all Christmas,all the Time January 9, 2007
J. Hammond (Alachua, Florida USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This two cd offering has almost all my favorites.the classics, not the Rudolph ones. Can't recommend enough.Listen and read Dickens...That's enough Christmas for anyone.
Title makes a big claim, but it absolutely delivers... December 2, 2006
Random McNasty
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This album provides 2.5 hours of excellent carols, from excellent choirs and soloists, and with great sound. I was worried that a compilation this large, and with such an extravagent title, would be B-side offerings, but that's not the case at all.
This isn't an album if you are looking for something "fresh and new." The arrangements are traditional, and even newer carols are done in a fairly conservative style. But that said, some of the pieces provide the best orchestration and voice arrangement I have ever heard. This is like the pinnacle of the classic English Christmas carol; clean, precise, glorious and celebratory.
Its time to be seasonal December 16, 2005
J. Couper (Lincoln, England)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This album contains traditional carols performed in a traditional way at the best quality. It is an excellent album to ensure the spirit of christmas is present and to bring the true meaning of christmas back. The double CD selection has all the golden favourites as well as not so wellknown carols to complete a very good christmas album. Merry Christmas to you all!
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