The Greatest Christmas Show on Earth

Richard Bonynge, Herbert Adler, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Stephen Cleobury, Kurt Herbert Adler, Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Leontyne Price, John Scott, Willi Boskovsky, Wiener Mozart-Ensemble, George Guest, Anton Guadagno, Karl Münchinger, Sir Georg Solti, Julius Rudel, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Colin Davis, John Rutter, Lorin Maazel, Carl Davis, Douglas Gamley

The Greatest Christmas Show on Earth

Record Label Decca Records / 460 400-2

Year of production 1998

Tracks - CD 1
1. Adeste Fideles (Oh Come All Ye Faithful)
2. Stille Nacht (Silent night)
Franz Schubert, Carlo Sabatini
Ellens Gesang III. Song For Voice And Piano. Hymne an die Jungfrau. Ave Maria (D 839 / Op.52/6)
3. Ave Maria
4. Once In Royal David's City
5. Ding dong! Merrily on high
6. Joy to the world
7. Good King Wenceslas
8. Wiegenlied (Guten Abend, gut' Nacht)
9. In dulci jubilo
Johann Sebastian Bach
(extract:) Christmas Oratorio, For Soloists, Choir And Orchestra (BWV 248)
10. Pastoral sinfonia
Georg Friedrich Händel
(extract:) Messiah. Oratorio In 3 Parts For Soloists, Choir And Orchestra (HWV 56)
11. For unto us a child is born
12. Ave Maria
Hector Berlioz
(extract:) L'enfance du Christ. Trilogie sacrée, For Soloists, Mixed Choir And Orchestra (Holoman 130 / Op.25)
13. Shepherd's farewell (Adieu des bergers)
14. Mille cherubini in coro
15. See amid the winter's snow
16. What child is this?
17. The first nowell
18. O Tannenbaum
19. While shepherds watched
20. Away in a manger
21. Hark! the harald amgels sing
Tracks - CD 2
1. Deck the hall
2. The holly and the ivy
3. Panis angelicus
4. In the bleak midwinter
5. God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(extract:) 3 German Dances, For Orchestra (KV 605)
7. The twelve days of Christmas
8. Shepherds in the fields abiding
9. Tu scendi dalle stelle
10. I saw three ships
11. O holy night
12. O little town of Bethlehem
13. Gesù bambino
14. Rocking
15. The Virgin's slumber song
16. Child in a manger
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
(extract:) Requiem, For Soloists, Choir And Orchestra
17. Hosanna in excelsis
Pjotr Iljitsch Tchaikovsky
(extract:) The Nutcracker. Ballet In 2 Acts (Op.71)
18. Waltz of the snowflakes (A pine forest in winter)
19. White Christmas
20. The skater's waltz
21. Mary's boy child