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Christmas Carols: festive favourites to keep you cool and calm

Ring in the festive season with this soothing mix of Christmas carols, from old classics to new recordings.

Ring in the festive season with this soothing mix of timeless Christmas carols. Featuring old favourites including Silent Night, Hark the Herald, and O Come all Ye Faithful, and other classics from John Rutter and Bob Chilcott, as well as gorgeous newer recordings from Ola Gjeilo, Philip Stopford and Kerensa Briggs.

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Music Played

  • 1 minute ago

    Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & Henry Websdale

    O Come, All Ye Faithful

    • A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 29.
  • 5 minutes ago

    Elmer Iseler Singers & Lydia Adams

    The Huron Carol

    • CBC.
  • 8 minutes ago

    VOCES8

    The Sleeping Child

    • A Choral Christmas.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • 12 minutes ago

    Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Orchestra of Clare College, Cambridge & John Rutter

    Ding Dong! Merrily on High

    • Carols From Cambridge: The Very Best Sacred Christmas Carols.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 25.
  • 14 minutes ago

    Tenebrae

    The Lamb

    • Allegri Miserere.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.
  • 18 minutes ago

    The Oxford Choir & Bob Chilcott

    It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • 20 minutes ago

    Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Henry Websdale & Stephen Cleobury

    O Holy Night Arr. John Rutter

    • Christmas Carols by King's College Choir.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 13.
  • 26 minutes ago

    The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke College Girls' Choir & Anna Lapwood

    My Heart, O God

    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.
  • 28 minutes ago

    Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Adam Banwell, Joel Williams & Douglas Tang

    I Saw Three Ships Arr. Simon Preston

    • Favourite Carols from King's.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 17.
  • 30 minutes ago

    The Oxford Choir & Becky McGlade

    What Child Is This Arr. Becky McGlade

    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • 34 minutes ago

    Tenebrae & Nigel Short

    In Winter's House

    • In Winter's House.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.
  • 39 minutes ago

    Choir of Westminster Abbey & Simon Preston

    The Holly And The Ivy

    • Choir of Westminster Abbey - Christmas Carols.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.
  • 42 minutes ago

    Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, William Vann, Derek Welton & Iain Burnside

    The Saviour's Love

    • Albion Records.
  • 44 minutes ago

    The Choir of Royal Holloway

    Wintertide Arr. Ola Gjeilo

    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.
  • 47 minutes ago

    Tenebrae, Nigel Short & James Sherlock

    Nativity Carol

    • What Sweeter Music: Songs and Carols for Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 17.
  • 52 minutes ago

    Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt & Robert Stringer

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    • Celestial Christmas 4: A Special Collection of Seasonal Choral Music.
    • Celestial Harmonies.
    • 5.
  • 56 minutes ago

    Choir of St John's College, Oxford & David Bannister

    Nowell and Nowell

    • News of Great Joy: Christmas from St John's College, Oxford.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 2.
  • 1 hour ago

    St Paul's Cathedral Choir

    Away In A Manger

    • The Christmas Angels.
    • Red Cab Records.
    • 3.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Elora Singers & Noel Edison

    Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

    • The Wonder of Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 17.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke College Girls' Choir & Anna Lapwood

    The Evening Star

    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 18.
  • 1 hour ago

    Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & Parker Ramsay

    All Bells in Paradise

    • Favourite Carols from King's.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 23.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

    O Emmanuel

    • Carol of the Bells.
    • CORO.
    • 27.
  • 1 hour ago

    Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury

    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

    • Nine Lessons & Carols.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 10.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter & City of London Sinfonia

    Shepherd's Pipe Carol

    • The John Rutter Christmas Album.
    • Collegium.
    • 11.
  • 1 hour ago

    麻豆社 Singers, James Morgan & Piano Hands

    Good King Wenceslas

    • Carols Revisited - Christmas with the 麻豆社 Singers.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • 1 hour ago

    Trinity Church Choir, New York, Owen Burdick & Philip Ledger

    Sussex Carol "On Christmas Night"

    • Naxos.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Choir of Royal Holloway

    The First Nowell (Arr. Ola Gjeilo)

    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • 1 hour ago

    Tewkesbury Abbey Choir & Andrew Sackett

    Gabriel's Message (Arr. David Willcocks)

    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • 1 hour ago

    Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Henry John Gauntlett & Arthur Henry Mann

    Once in Royal David's City

    • Traditional Christmas Carols & Songs - The Essential Collection.
    • Classical Expressions.
    • 16.
  • 1 hour ago

    Tenebrae & Nigel Short

    The Shepherd's Carol

    • In Winter's House.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • 1 hour ago

    St Paul's Cathedral Choir, Andrew Carwood & Simon Johnson

    O Little Town of Bethlehem

    • Decca.
  • 1 hour ago

    Kerensa Briggs

    A Tender Shoot

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • 1 hour ago

    Philip Stopford

    Lully, Lulla, Lullay

    Conductor: David Bannister. Ensemble: The Choir of St John's College, Oxford.
    • News of Great Joy: Christmas from St John's College, Oxford.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 3.
  • 1 hour ago

    John Rutter

    Candlelight Carol

    Conductor: John Rutter. Ensemble: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
  • 1 hour ago

    Trad.

    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

    Choir: The Oxford Trinity Choir.
    • Christmas Carols - The Collection - (The Best of The Oxford Trinity Choir).
    • Burgess Entertainment Inc.
    • 6.

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