We wish you a merry Christmas. — Needham, Mass. : VQR Digital, p1989.

Album description

1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.
VQR Digital: VQR 2036.
Arranged by Gary Karr and Harmon Lewis (with some exceptions).
Gary Karr, double bass ; Harmon Lewis, piano or organ.
Recorded in the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Mass., November 28-30, 1988.
Performed on an Amati double bass made in 1611.
Program notes (4 pages), inserted.
Contents: God rest you merry, gentlemen (2:24) -- The first nowell (2:49) -- Silent night (3:55) -- O holy night (4:54) -- Deck the halls (1:12) -- Never a child is He / James Niblock (3:34) -- I saw three ships (2:40) -- The Son of Mary / Catalonian carol (2:32) -- Song of the birds / Catalonian carol ; arr. Casals (3:37) -- O little town of Bethlehem (2:35) -- Vom Himmel Hoch / Sigfrid Karg-Elert (3:21) -- Hark the herald angels sing (3:09) -- Greensleeves to a ground (4:41) -- Jingle bells (1:26) -- Il est né, le divin Enfant (2:22) -- Ave Maria / Franz Schubert (6:32) -- Joseph est bien marié / Jean François Dandrieu (5:34) -- It came upon a midnight clear (2:29) -- Lo, how a rose e’er blooming (3:39) -- Good King Wenceslas (2:49).

I. God rest ye merry, gentlemen; arranged
II. First nowell; arranged
III. Gruber, Franz Xaver, 1787-1863. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht; arranged
IV. Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856. Cantique de Noël; arranged
V. Deck the halls with boughs of holly; arranged
VI. Niblock, James F., 1917-2018. Never a child is He; arranged
VII. I saw three ships; arranged
VIII. Noi de la mare; arranged
IX. Cant del ocells; arranged
X. O little town of Bethlehem; arranged
XI. Cummings, William Hayman, 1831-1915. Hark the herald angels sing; arranged
XII. Greensleeves to a ground; arranged
XIII. Pierpont, James, 1822-1893. Jingle bells; arranged
XIV. Il est né, le divin Enfant; arranged
XV. Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Ellens Gesang, D. 839; arranged
XVI. Dandrieu, Jean François, 1682-1738. Nöels, organ. Joseph est bien marié; arranged
XVII. Willis, Richard Storrs, 1819-1900. It came upon the midnight clear; arranged
XVIII. Lo, how a rose e’er blooming; arranged
XVI. Mayer, William, 1925-. Good King Wenceslas; arranged