Britten's much-loved Christmas choral classic is now available for performance in French for the first time. Maurice Budry translated the majority of the work, with Britten’s approval, and it was broadcast by Radio Romande on Christmas Day, 1964, by Chœur de Dames de Lausanne. The three missing movements have now been translated by Agnès Ausseur and Jalal Zaïm especially for this edition. Includes phonetic glossary (with modern English equivalent words) to assist native French speakers who wish ...

1. Procession / Procession d'entrée (Latin) 2. Wolcum Yole! (anon 14th-century English; Fr tr by Maurice Budry) 3. There is no Rose / Il n'est de rose (anon 14th-century English; Fr tr by Maurice Budry) 4a. That yongë child / Cet enfançon (anon 14th-century English; Fr tr by Agnès Ausseur) 4b. Balulalow (James, John and Robert Wedderburn; Fr tr by Maurice Budry) 5. As dew in Aprille / La Rosée d’avril (anon English c1400; Fr tr by Jalal Zaïm) 6. This little Babe / Ce petit enfant (Robert Southwe...