Released November 21, 1966 Length 41:00 | Recorded 1966 Release date 21 November 1966 | |
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Noël is a Christmas album by Joan Baez, released in 1966.
Contents
Working with arranger-conductor Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach), Baez, for the first time, recorded an album outside the standard guitar-based folk format. She worked with Schickele on her next two albums, both of which also featured classical orchestration.
Unlike holiday albums by many other popular artists, Baez included mostly traditional material, avoiding more lighthearted or commercial fare in favor of a somber, understated tone. She included both familiar ("The Little Drummer Boy") and more obscure ("Down in Yon Forest") material. The album also contains several brief instrumental selections arranged by Schickele.
Original LP
- "O come, O come, Emmanuel" (Traditional)
- "Coventry Carol" (Traditional)
- "Good King Wenceslas" (Traditional) - instrumental
- "The Little Drummer Boy" (K. Davis, H. Onorati, H. Simeone)
- "I Wonder As I Wander" (J. Niles)
- "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" - instrumental
- "Down in Yon Forest" (Traditional)
- "The Carol of the Birds" (Traditional)
- "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Traditional) - instrumental
- "Ave Maria" (Franz Schubert) (sung in German)
- "Mary's Wandering" (Traditional)
- "Deck the Halls" (Traditional) - instrumental
- "Away in a Manger" (J. Murray)
- "Adeste Fideles (O Come, all ye Faithful)" (Traditional) - instrumental
- "Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)" (A. Adam)
- "What Child Is This" (Traditional)
- "Silent Night" (F. Gruber)
CD bonus tracks
- "The First Noel" (Traditional)
- "We Three Kings" (Traditional) - instrumental
- "Virgin Mary" (Traditional)
- "Good Christian Kings" (Traditional) - instrumental
- "Burgundian Carol" (Traditional)
- "Away in a Manger" (J. Murray) - alternate version sung in French
Songs
1O Come - O Come - Emmanuel3:02
2Coventry Carol1:59
3Good King Wenceslas (instrumental)0:26