[.ca] A Tapestry of Carols

Simply the Best Ever Christmas Album!:
"Carols and Capers" and "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" (released just before Christmas 2002 by Maddy and the Carnival Band) may be brilliant, but a "Tapestry of Carols" is simply the best! I've had "A Tapestry of Carols" for twelve long years and it still sends a shiver down my spine when December rolls around again. But, why? True, there are some less well known carols on the album such as, "The Angel Gabriel","The Sans Day Carol" and "Personent Hodie", but there's also "God Rest You Merry Gentleman", "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" and others that have been recorded thousands of times. Well, according to the insert notes, Maddy and the Carnival band "deliberately shut out all memories of cathedral choirs, brass bands and supermarket jingles" in the making of the album. As one reviewer in a Canadian newspaper put it, when you listen to "A Tapestry of Carols, you actually feel that a saviour has been born!" Close your eyes while you listen to "Angels From the Realms of Glory", and chances are, you'll see the heavenly host and the humble shepherds doing cosmic cartwheels out in the fields. If you've forgotten what Christmas is all about, crank up the volume on "Rejoice and be Merry" - you'll soon recall that it's "the birthday of Jesus our King!"

• Sans Day Carol
• In Dulci Jubilo
• God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• Holly and the Ivy
• Coventry Carol
• Ding Dong! Merrily on High
• Angel Gabriel
• Angels from the Realms of Glory
• Infant Holy
• Virgin Most Pure
• Unto Us a Boy Is Born
• Rejoice and Be Merry
• Joseph Dearest
• Personent Hodie
• On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol)