Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols


Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hodie (This Day)

Prologue: Nowell! Nowell!

Narration: Now is the birth of Jesus Christ

Song: It was the winter wild

Narration: And it came to pass in those days

Choral: The blessed son of God

Narration: And there were in the same country

Song: The Oxen

Narration: And the shepherds returned

Pastoral: The shepherds sing

Narration: But Mary kept all these things

Lullaby: Sweet was the song the Virgin sang

Hymn: Bright portals of the sky

Narration: Now when Jesus was born

The March of the 3 Kings: From kingdoms of wisdom

Choral: No sad thought his soul affright

Epilogue: In the beginning was the Word