Nearer (Christmas 2003)

Track Listing and audio samples:

1. Veni Emmanuel (plainsong)
2. Here I Am (Emmylou Harris)
3. Watching for Dolphins (CHJ)
4. Interlude (arr. CHJ)
5. Super Flumina Babylonis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
6. Georgia Lee (Tom Waits)
7. Lascia ch’io pianga (G.F. Handel)
8. Auf einer Burg (Robert Schumann)
9. Awaiting You (Adam Guettel)
10. Love Bade Me Welcome (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
11. 1st Katisma – from Vigilia (Einojuhani Rautavaara)
12. Being Alive (Stephen Sondheim)
13. Stay Awake (Richard & Robert Sherman, arr. CHJ)
14. Every Star Shall Sing a Carol (Sydney Carter)
15. In the Deserts of the Heart / Stuff in Annie’s Head (CHJ)
16. The First of My Lovers (Sydney Carter)
17. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (John Gardner)
18. Incantations (Michael McGlynn)
19. O Magnum Mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
20. All That a Heart (CHJ)
21. Let All Things Their Creator Bless (Healy Willan)
22. Loving Shepherd of Thy Sheep (John Rutter)
23. We Clasp the Hands (CHJ)
24. I Could Have Danced All Night (arr. CHJ)
25. Nearer My God, To Thee (Lowell Mason)

Recorded live December 2003 at The Carillon on Exposition, Austin, TX

Additional piano / vocal performances by Craig Hella Johnson.