Always (Christmas 2004)

Track Listing and Audio Samples:

DISC ONE

1. O Sapientia (Springfield Antiphonal) / Veni Emmanuel (French processional)
2. on your wings (Sam Beam, iron and wine)
3. One Day I’ll Fly Away (Joe Sample)
4. Collage: Feathered Dove (Sacred Harp) / Hound of Heaven (Company) / O sinner man (traditional English folk song)
5. O Salutaris Hostia (Pierre de la Rue)
6. Somebody’s Knocking (spiritual) / Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen/CHJ)
7. I Heard the Voice (Thomas Tallis/arr. CHJ)
8. Killing Me Softly (Gimbel/Fox)
9. I’ll Be Loving You (Irving Berlin/arr. CHJ)
10. O Morning Star (Philipp Nicolai)
11. Oh How Shall I Receive You? (Johann Crueger)
12. Hodie Christus Natus Est (J.P. Sweelinck)
13. The Guests (Leonard Cohen)
14. Some enchanting evening (Richard Rogers)
15. Wade in the water (Judy Henske)
16. i will wade out (Eric Whitacre)
17. O Nata Lux (Morten Lauridsen)
18. Ye shall have a song (Randall Thompson)
19. Song of Bernadette (Leonard Cohen)
20. With So Little To Be Sure Of (Stephen Sondheim)
21. What a fellowship (A.J. Showalter)
22. hope, faith, life, love (Eric Whitacre)
23. Hey, My Love (Lady Maisry/arr. CHJ)
24. Hallelujahs (Chris Rice)

DISC TWO

1. Come, Love, Carolling (Sydney Carter)
2. Senzenina (Niel van der Watt)
3. As with gladness men of old (C. Kocher/arr. Bruce Greer)
4. Joy to the World (G.F. Handel)
5. Collage: Impossible (Oscar Hammerstein II) / It’s Impossible (Sid Wayne) / Sometimes When We Touch (Dan Hill) / I Can Dream, Can’t I (Sammy Fain)
6. O Love, That Will Not Let Me Go (Albert L. Peace)
7. O Little Town of Bethlehem (Lewis H. Redner)
8. Tantum ergo (Maurice Duruflé)
9. Collage: We clasp the hands (CHJ) / I Could’ve Danced All Night (Lerner-Lowe/arr. CHJ)

BONUS TRACKS

10. Fest-und Gedenksprüche, Opus 109 (Johannes Brahms)

11. Unsere Väter hofften auf dich
12. Wenn ein starker Gewappneter
13. Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk

14. Sanctus from Mass for Double Chorus (Frank Martin)
15. Motherless Child (CHJ)

Recorded live December 2004 at The Carillon on Exposition, Austin, TX

Additional piano / vocal performances by Craig Hella Johnson.