The Harvard University Choir ; Murray Forbes Somerville, director ; Nancy B. Granert, organist ; The Bach Society Orchestra ; The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes ; The Reverend Preston B. Hannibal
On cover of pamphlet: "Carols from the yard : the eighty-fifth annual carol service."
Recorded in The Memorial Church, Harvard University, at the Carol Services on December 11th and 12th, 1994 with additional material recorded on December 10, 1994 & January 13th, 1995.
Choral works sung in English and Latin.
Prelude: In dulci jubilo / James Woodman (1:58) -- Introit: In dulci jubilo / arr. Archibald T. Davison (3:15) -- Processional hymn: Adeste fideles (4:24) -- Sentences from Scripture and Invocation (1:11) -- The first lesson-- Isaiah 35: 1-10 (1:38) -- Canite tuba / G.P. da Palestrina (2:30) -- Come rejoicing, praises voicing / Charles Callahan (2:52) -- Ein Kind ist uns geboren / Heinrich Schütz (3:33) -- Hymn: Personent hodie / Gustav Holst (2:48) -- The second lesson -- Luke I: 26-38 (2:18) -- Ave Maria / Johannes Brahms (4:20) -- Mary had a baby / arr. William L. Dawson (2:55) -- Ríu, ríu, chíu / Spanish traditional (2:00) -- In the ending of the year / Peter Niedmann (4:13) -- The Third Lesson / Luke 2: 1-20 (The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes) (4:01) -- In the bleak mid-winter / Harold Darke (4:36) -- And all in the morning / arr. Gerald Near (3:56) -- Sing lullaby / Basque carol arr. David Wilcocks (3:33) -- To us born Immanuel / Michael Praetorius (1:52) -- Jesus, Jesus, rest your head / arr. Russell Schulz-Widmar (3:20) -- Hymn: Silent night (4:50) -- Prayers and the Lords Prayer / (The Reverend Preston B. Hannibal) (1:49) -- Hymn: Joy to the world / Antioch (1:56) -- Benediction and Choral Amen / William Byrd (1:20) -- Postlude: Paean on "Divinum Mysterium" / John Cook (4:20)