-- one of the most significant collections of English carols ever compiled. It takes as its subject the grand final voyage of the relics of the magi -- the three kings from the story of the nativity -- which were eventually installed in jeweled caskets in Cologne cathedral. The familiar, and now somewhat standardized, version is only one of many variants that have existed over the centuries, and may represent a conglomeration of English, German, and Italian folk versions.
The tune, likewise, has several variants, and is said to resemble Sir Toby Belch's "There lived a man in Babylon" from Shakespeare's
. The most commonly-heard version is that recorded in Bramley and Stainer's
(1878). ~ All Music Guide
| 50 Most Loved Christmas Carols |
2005 |
| A Canadian Brass Christmas |
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| A Cathedral Christmas |
1997 |
| A Celebration of Christmas Carols through the Ages |
1993 |
| A Celebration of Christmas Carols through the Ages |
1993 |
| A Choirboy's Christmas: The Gold Collection |
1999 |
| A Choral Christmas: Trinity Church in the City of Boston |
2001 |
| A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey |
2008 |
| A Christmas Collection |
2005 |
| A Christmas Concert |
2000 |
| A Christmas Gift from Sundown Records |
1986 |
| A Christmas Nativity |
2005 |
| A Christmas Treasure |
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| A Classic Irish Christmas [DVD Video] |
2007 |
| A Feast of Christmas Carols |
2000 |
| A Feast of Christmas Carols |
2000 |
| A Festival Of Carols |
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| A Festival of Christmas |
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| A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols |
1999 |
| A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols |
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| A Postcard Christmas: Choirs of Christmas |
2001 |
| A Reader's Digest Christmas: The Joy of Christmas |
2003 |
| A Traditional Christmas Carol Collection |
2006 |
| A Traditional Christmas Collection |
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| A Victorian Christmas |
1984 |
| Adeste Fiddles [B&N Exclusive] |
2008 |
| All Hayle To The Days |
1993 |
| An A Capella Christmas |
2003 |
| An American Christmas: Shapenote Carols from New England & Appalachia |
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| An Olde English Christmas |
2007 |
| Angelic Christmas |
1995 |
| Ave Maria: Christmas Favorites |
1993 |
| Away in a Manger |
1995 |
| Away in a Manger: Carols for Orchestra and Chorus |
1997 |
| Best Carols 100 |
2007 |
| Best Loved Christmas Carols |
2004 |
| Blessed Christmas: A Traditional Christian Christmas |
2004 |
| Bläser Weihnacht |
2007 |
| Bright Star...Tiny Babe...One Guitar |
2007 |
| Caliban Does Christmas / Le Noël de Caliban |
2005 |
| Carol Collection |
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| Carols From King's College Cambridge |
1997 |
| Carols From Trinity |
1988 |
| Carols for Brass |
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| Carols for Christmas, Vols. 1 & 2 |
1985 |
| Carols for a Cure, Vol. 5 |
2003 |
| Carols from Clare |
1988 |
| Carols from St. Chads Cathedral |
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| Carols from Winchester Cathedral |
2004 |
| Carols of the Winter Solstice |
2000 |
| Chorale Christmas |
2002 |
| Christmas |
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| Christmas Album |
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| Christmas Angels |
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| Christmas Angels: A Thousand Voices Sing the Finest Christmas Music in Lincoln Cathedral |
1994 |
| Christmas Caroling through the Ages |
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| Christmas Carols |
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| Christmas Carols |
1995 |
| Christmas Carols |
2002 |
| Christmas Carols |
1997 |
| Christmas Carols |
1997 |
| Christmas Carols |
2006 |
| Christmas Carols [3D Pop-Up] |
2005 |
| Christmas Carols and Motets |
2008 |
| Christmas Carols and Motets |
2008 |
| Christmas Carols from King's College |
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| Christmas Choir |
1998 |
| Christmas Choir |
1998 |
| Christmas Choirs |
2006 |
| Christmas Comes Anew |
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| Christmas Cookies: A Holiday Celebration |
2003 |
| Christmas Day in the Morning |
1993 |
| Christmas Echoes, Vol. 1 |
1992 |
| Christmas Favorites (Box Set) |
2002 |
| Christmas Hymns and Carols |
2000 |
| Christmas Improvisations |
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| Christmas Joy, Vol. 2 |
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| Christmas Joy, Vol. 4 |
1999 |
| Christmas Magic |
2002 |
| Christmas Magic (Box Set) |
2002 |
| Christmas Memories [Box Set] |
2008 |
| Christmas Memories, Vol. 1 |
2008 |
| Christmas Past: Traditional Holiday Music from the 19th Century & Before |
1996 |
| Christmas Song |
1999 |
| Christmas Songs from Many Lands |
2006 |
| Christmas Treasures |
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| Christmas at King's College (Box Set) |
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| Christmas at St. George's |
1999 |
| Christmas at St. Giles' |
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| Christmas at Trinity |
2001 |
| Christmas at Windsor |
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| Christmas in New England |
1993 |
| Christmas in New England |
2005 |
| Christmas on Fifth Avenue |
2005 |
| Christmas with Kiri Te Kanawa: Carols from Coventry Cathedral |
1994 |
| Christmas with Mario Lanza |
1987 |
| Christmas with The Chapter House Choir |
1999 |
| Christmas with The Vienna Choir Boys and Hermann Prey & Placido Domingo |
1988 |
| Christmas with the Giannini Brass |
1997 |
| Christmas with the Mantovani Orchestra |
2002 |
| Christmas with the Robert Shaw Chorale |
1994 |
| Christmas' Greatest Voices |
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| Christmas: Greatest Voices |
1995 |
| Christmastide |
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| Classic Christmas |
1991 |
| Classic Christmas Carols |
2007 |
| Classical Christmas Vocal |
1998 |
| Classical Christmas [Box Set] |
1998 |
| Coca-Cola Choral Christmas |
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| Dagen Är Kommen |
1996 |
| Dickens Christmas |
1998 |
| Emily Mitchell: A Celtic Christmas |
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| Enchanted Christmas, Vol. 3 |
2007 |
| Encore! Christmas |
2006 |
| Essential Carols: The Very Best of King's College Choir, Cambridge |
2005 |
| Essential Carols: The Very Best of King's College Choir, Cambridge |
2005 |
| Favourite Carols at Christmas |
1992 |
| Favourite Carols from King's |
1996 |
| Gaudete / Härlig är Jorden |
1993 |
| Greatest Christmas Show On Earth |
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| Greatest Hits of Christmas |
1995 |
| Gruber, Mendelssohn and Gauntlett |
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| HGTV: Holidays at Home |
2006 |
| HGTV: The Art of Living [Box Set] |
2006 |
| Have Yourself a Choral Little Christmas |
2007 |
| Have Yourself a Traditional Little Christmas |
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| Heavenly Host |
1995 |
| Heavenly Peace |
2006 |
| Holiday Greetings |
1993 |
| Holiday Light: Singing Angels, Silver Bells |
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| Holiday Sounds |
1997 |
| Holiday Sounds (Box Set) |
1997 |
| Holiday Sounds (Box Set) |
1997 |
| Holiday Sounds of the Manhattan Strings [includes DVD] |
2004 |
| Holiday Strings |
2002 |
| In Celebration Of Christmas |
1991 |
| In the Bleak Mid-Winter |
2007 |
| It's Christmas Again at Longwood Gardens |
1995 |
| Joy to the World [Box Set] |
1992 |
| Julens ljus (The Light of Christmas) [Hybrid SACD] |
2006 |
| Les Grands Airs de Noël (Christmas' Greatest Songs) |
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| Let it Snow |
1997 |
| Mad About Christmas |
1994 |
| Magic of Christmas |
2001 |
| Merry Christmas with Plácido Domingo, Hermann Prey and the Vienna Choir Boys |
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| Miracle in Bethlehem |
1997 |
| Mittens for Christmas |
2001 |
| Mountain Snow & Mistletoe |
1991 |
| Music for a Cathedral's Year |
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| Music from St. Clement Danes |
1986 |
| Nativitas: American Christmas Carols |
1994 |
| Norman Rockwell: A Children's Choral Christmas |
2005 |
| Norman Rockwell: A Merry Little Christmas |
2005 |
| Noël: Carols & Chants for Christmas |
2005 |
| Noël: Christmas at King's |
1995 |
| Noëls & Carols from the Olde World |
2004 |
| Noëls & Carols from the Olde World |
1999 |
| Noëls & Carols from the Olde World |
1999 |
| Nutcracker Christmas |
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| O Holy Night |
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| On Christmas Day in the Morning |
1998 |
| Once Were Christmas Angels: The Pure Sound of Boy Trebles |
2006 |
| Our Favorite Things |
2001 |
| Our Favorite Things [SACD] |
2001 |
| Our Favorite Things: Christmas in Vienna [DVD Video] |
2001 |
| Rejoice and Be Merry! |
2008 |
| Rejoice! - A String Quartet Christmas, Vol. 2 |
1997 |
| Rejos For Joy |
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| Ring Christmas Bells |
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| Roberto Alagna: The Christmas Album |
2000 |
| Sacred Choirs |
2006 |
| Silent Night |
1998 |
| Silent Night (Box Set) |
2002 |
| Simply Christmas |
2003 |
| Sing Choirs of Angels |
1998 |
| Sing We All Merrily: A Colonial Christmas |
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| Sing We Noël: Choral Music from St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver |
1992 |
| Sing, Choirs of Angels! |
2004 |
| Sir Cristemas: Carols Newly Composed and Arranged |
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| Songs of Angels: Christmas Hymns & Carols |
1994 |
| Sweet Songs of Christmas |
2003 |
| Sweet Songs of Christmas |
2007 |
| Sweet Was the Song |
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| The #1 Christmas Album |
2001 |
| The Bells of Dublin |
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| The Best Carols in the World...Ever! |
1998 |
| The Best of Christmas |
1994 |
| The Best of Christmas |
2002 |
| The Best of Christmas: 50 Holiday Favorites |
2003 |
| The Carols Album |
2007 |
| The Christmas Album |
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| The Christmas Angels |
2006 |
| The Christmas Angels Series (Box Set) |
1993 |
| The Christmas Angels Series (Box Set) |
1993 |
| The Christmas Collection |
1997 |
| The Christmas Collection [Box Set] |
2007 |
| The Christmas Spirit |
1992 |
| The First Nowell: Carols from Westminster Cathedral |
2001 |
| The Heart of Christmas |
2007 |
| The Holly & Ivy |
1998 |
| The Holly & The Ivy |
1992 |
| The Holly And The Ivy |
1989 |
| The Holly and the Ivy |
1991 |
| The Holly and the Ivy |
2006 |
| The Holly and the Ivy |
2006 |
| The Incredible Christmas Album |
2003 |
| The John Rutter Christmas Album |
2002 |
| The Mantovani Orchestra: Gold |
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| The Naxos Book of Carols: An Advent Sequence in Music |
2003 |
| The Spirit Of Christmas Present |
1996 |
| The Ultimate Christmas Album |
1995 |
| The Ultimate Christmas Album |
2002 |
| The Ultimate Christmas Album [CD+DVD] |
2008 |
| The Voice of Christmas |
2002 |
| This Christmas |
2008 |
| To Drive the Cold Winter Away |
1975 |
| Totally Christmas, Vol. 1 |
2004 |
| Traditional Christmas Favourites |
2005 |
| Traditional English Christmas Carols |
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| Traditions: The Time Life Treasury of Christmas |
2009 |
| Voices of Christmas |
1997 |
| We Wish You a Merry Christmas |
2001 |
| Winds of the Season |
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| Wolcum Yule [Hybrid SACD] |
2003 |
| Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols |
2003 |
| You Do Something To Me / Christmas Hymns and Carols |
2004 |
