A Christmas Tapestry The Dolmetsch Ensemble

A Christmas Tapestry The Dolmetsch Ensemble Track listing: Music: Branle de l'Officiel (0:52) Reading: Winter evening (1:25) -- William Cowper - The Task Music: In the bleak midwinter (0:45) Reading: Winter (0:56) -- Shakespeare Music: Silent night (1:36) Reading: Wind in the willows (Part one) (1:12) -- Kenneth Grahame Music: Wassail song (0:52) Reading: Wind in the willows (Part two) (3:35) -- Kenneth Grahame Music: Angelus and Virginem (0:59) Reading: Wind in the willows (Part three) (0:52) -- Kenneth Grahame Music: In dulci jubilo (0:37) Reading: A child's Christmas in Wales (2:28) -- Dylan Thomas Music: Toccata in G major (2:26) -- Bach Reading: Christmas (Part one) "The bells of waiting Advent ring" (1:26) -- Sir John Betjeman Music: O little one sweet (0:51) -- Scheidt, setting J. S. Bach Reading: Christmas (Part two) "And is it true?" (1:08) -- Sir John Betjeman Music: Pastorale from concerto grosso no. 8 in G minor (Corelli) (3:26) Reading: Christmas Eve (0:44) -- Robert Bridges Music: Gabriel's message (1:01) -- Basque Trad. arr. Dolmetsch Reading: The oxen (0:45) -- Thomas Hardy Music: Pastorale from sonata IV, op. 13 (Vivaldi) (3:47) Reading: St. Luke, chapter II, verses 15-19 (0:49) Music: The cradle (1:21) -- Holborne Reading: A village Christmas (Part one) "Christmas morning" (2:28) -- Miss Read Music: Kings of Orient (1:26) -- Dr. J. H. Hopkins, setting & interlude Rudolph Domletsch Reading: A village Christmas (Part two) "News" (1:05) -- Miss Read Music: A Sussex carol (1:07) Reading: A village Christmas (Part three) "The Christmas baby" (3:59) -- Miss Read Music: Past three o'clock (0:51) -- Trad. setting Charles Wood Reading: A Christmas carol (Part one) "The Christmas present" (2:10) -- Charles Dickens Music: The New Year's gift (1:26) -- Holborne Reading: A Christmas carol (Part two) "God Bless us, every one" (1:26) -- Charles Dickens Music: Adeste Fidelis (1:16)