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Metropolitan United's second Christmas CD provides a sampling of music from the church’s Advent and Christmas services. The CD features the adult choir and soloists, organ, carillon, handbells, Celtic harp, guitar, violin, piano, and percussion.

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Track Listing:

  1. Gaudete! from Piae Cantiones (1582).
  2. Veni Emmanuel/O Come, O Come Emmanuel thirteenth century plainsong.
  3. Gabriel's Message Basque traditional, arr. E. Pettman.
  4. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming 16th century, arr. Hugo Distler.
  5. Adam Lay Y'Bounden, Boris Ord.
  6. Before the Marvel of This Night, Jaroslav Vajda/Carl Schalk (harp).
  7. To Drive the Cold Winter Away English trad., arr. Ben Stein and Lucy Carrick-Wedel.
  8. Angels We Have Heard on High French, trad., arr. Beverly Buchanan (carillon).
  9. Cold December's Winds, Catalan traditional.
  10. Noël Grands Jeux et Duo, Louis Claude d'Aquin (organ).
  11. Huron Carol, arr. Robert Anderson.
  12. The Infant King Basque, trad., arr. D. Ratcliffe.
  13. Away In a Manger, arr. Elmer Iseler.
  14. Patapan Burgundian, trad., arr. Kirke Mechem.
  15. Malpas Wassail Cornish, trad., arr. Ben Stein.
  16. Mary Had a Baby, Michael Coghlan.
  17. There Is No Rose, anon., c. 1420, arr. John Stevens.
  18. Sweet Little Jesus Boy, Robert MacGimsey.
  19. Variations sur "In Dulci Jubilo," Denis Bédard (organ).
  20. As With Gladness, Men of Old Dix, arr. Bill Ingram (handbells).
  21. Brightest and Best Kentucky Folk Melody, arr. Patricia Wright.
  22. In the Bleak Mid-Winter, Harold Darke.
  23. O Magnum Mysterium, Tomas Luis da Vittoria.
  24. Sussex Carol English, trad., arr. David Willcocks.
  25. Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, Stuttgart, arr. Beverly Buchanan (carillon).