Metropolitan United's second Christmas CD provides the listener with a sampling of the variety of music heard during the church's Advent and Christmas services. Features the adult choir and soloists, organ, carillon, handbells, Celtic harp, guitar, violin, piano and percussion. Recorded at Metropolitan United Church in June, 2002. Total playing time: 69:42. Available on CD for $20 plus $5 for shipping and handling.
Tracks:
- Gaudete! from Piae Cantiones (1582)
- Veni Emmanuel/O Come, O Come Emmanuel 13th century plainsong
- Gabriel's Message Basque traditional, arr. E. Pettman
- Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming 16th century, arr. Hugo Distler
- Adam Lay Y'Bounden Boris Ord
- Before the Marvel of This Night Jaroslav Vajda/Carl Schalk (harp)
- To Drive the Cold Winter Away English trad., arr. Ben Stein and Lucy Carrick-Wedel
- Angels We Have Heard on High French trad., arr. Beverly Buchanan (carillon)
- Cold December's Winds Catalan traditional
- Noël Grands Jeux et Duo Louis Claude d'Aquin (organ)
- Huron Carol arr. Robert Anderson
- The Infant King Basque trad., arr. D. Ratcliffe
- Away In a Manger arr. Elmer Iseler
- Patapan Burgundian trad., arr. Kirke Mechem
- Malpas Wassail Cornish trad., arr. Ben Stein
- Mary Had a Baby Michael Coghlan
- There Is No Rose anon., c. 1420, arr. John Stevens
- Sweet Little Jesus Boy Robert MacGimsey
- Variations sur "In Dulci Jubilo" Denis Bédard (organ)
- As With Gladness, Men of Old Dix, arr. Bill Ingram (handbells)
- Brightest and Best Kentucky Folk Melody, arr. Patricia Wright
- In the Bleak Mid-Winter Harold Darke
- O Magnum Mysterium Tomas Luis da Vittoria
- Sussex Carol English trad., arr. David Willcocks
- Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus Stuttgart, arr. Beverly Buchanan (carillon)
