Matthew Martin:
Adam Lay Ybounden

Anonymous (13th century):
Veni, Veni Emanuel

Herbert Howells:
Long, Long Ago

Anonymous (14th century):
Lullay, Lullay:
Als I Lay on Yoolis Night

Francis Pott:
Balulalow

Anonymous (13th/14th century):
Qui Creavit Celum

Jonathan Dove:
The Three Kings

Anonymous (15th/16th century):
This Endere Nyghth I Saw a Syghth

Kenneth Leighton:
A Hymn of The Nativity

Anonymous (12th/13th century):
Letabundus

Benjamin Britten:
A Boy Was Born:
I. A Boy Was Born
A Boy Was Born:
II. Lullay, Jesu
A Boy Was Born:
III. Herod
A Boy Was Born:
IV. Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour
A Boy Was Born:
V. The Three Kings
A Boy Was Born:
VI. In the bleak mid-winter
A Boy Was Born:
VII. Noel!

An inspiring sequence of Christmas music ancient and modern, culminating in Britten’s virtuosic choral masterpiece, A Boy Was Born: Paul McCreesh leads the Gabrieli Consort (joined by the Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir) in this evocative and contrasting collection of festive works that samples works from the 12th century to the present day.