On 28 June 2011 a significant chapter in the history of Czech music closed with the passing of a legend: after 38 years the Bambini di Praga choir gave their final concert and bade farewell to their audience. For music lovers, Bambini di Praga will forever be cherished as a first-rate children’s choir who brought fame to Czech choral art throughout the world.

And it was the most beautiful Christmas carols from Bohemia and Moravia, as well as other nations in Europe and America, that earned the choir their greatest acclaim and also brought the poetics of the Birth of Our Lord beyond the borders of the Christian world.

This recording of simply and sensitively arranged carols, illuminated by ringing voices, is destined to remain one of the artistic apices in the choir’s history. Yet above all it encapsulates the irresistible magic of Christmas Mystery and Joy.

And who better than children to sing of the new-born infant and bring festive tidings of the Lord’s boundless love for us?

Contents:
1. Čas radosti, veselosti (Bohemia)
2. Ding, Dong! Merrily On High (England)
3. Svatou dobu již tu máme (Moravia)
4. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (America)
5. Przybieżeli do Betlejem Pasterze (Poland)
6. O, du Fröhliche (Germany)
7. Una Pandereta (Spain)
8. Joy To The World (America)
9. Heiligste Nacht (Germany)
10. Ejhle, chasa naša (Moravia)
11. Dlaczego dzisiaj wśród nocy dnieje (Poland)
12. Les anges dans nos campagnes (France)
13. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (England)
14. Zezulka z lesa vylítla (Bohemia)
15. In dulci jubilo (Latin)
16. Triumfy króla niebieskiego (Poland)
17. O Little Town Of Bethlehem (America)
18. Es Blühen die Maien (Germany)
19. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (England)
20. Hopsa, pacholátka (Bohemia)
21. Away In A Manger (America)
22. Bóg się rodzi (Poland)
23. Noël nouvelet (France)
24. Slyšte, slyšte, pastuškové (Bohemia)
25. Süsser die Glocken nie klingen (Germany)
26. Nesem vám noviny (Bohemia)
27. Dněs pojušče (Ukraine)
28. Čas radosti, veselosti (Bohemia)

Recorded at the Czech Radio Studio, Prague, June 1998.