Covering several centuries, 32 Galliard Carols for Christmas, contains not only such favourites as Silent Night and We wish you a merry Christmas, but also newer carols including Carol for Christingle, written by Fred Pratt Green for Norwich Cathedral and The Wassail of Figgy Duff — “traditional words and music invented by Michael Flanders”.

Most of the arrangements are made so that the carols may be sung with keyboard or guitar, by solo voices or groups of any vocal combination; many have op...

[M = Music; W = Words]

• Angel Gabriel (W: Sabine Baring Gould)
• Carol for Christingle (W: Fred Pratt Green)
• Christmas Candle (W: Donald Swann)
• Down in yon forest (M: arr. R Vaughan Williams)
• Fum, Fum, Fum! (W: Bernard Braley)
• God’s own Son (W: Fred Pratt Green; M: Allen Percival)
• In the bleak midwinter (W: Christina Rossetti; M: Harold Darke)
• Longfellow’s Carol (W: H W Longfellow; M: Allen Percival)
• Lord of the Dance (WM: Sydney Carter)
• Mary had a boy-child
• Mistl...