Disc 1. Office of the nativity of Christ (Syriaco-Maronite tradition). Improvisation: nây ; Hayyâ maʻî min Lubnân = Come with me from Lebanon ; Baytun Maghârah = A house--a cave! ; Yusuf u Mariam = Joseph, Mary ; Jâʼa-l-ʼilâhu = The God full of the ages ; Hallâ tuʻṭî-nâ = Would you not give us an ineffable heart ; Nashdu-ka-sh-shukra = We sing our thanks to you (6:51) -- Kathisma of the Office of the Nativity of Christ (Byzantine Melkite tradition): Li-mâdhâ taʻjabîna yâ Mariam? = Why are you amazed, O Mary? (5:34) -- Office of the nativity of Christ (Syriac tradition). Improvisation: qânûn ; Halel halel = Praise, praise ; Taw nimar = Come, let us declare Mary blessed ; Yawnô Ṭlîthô = The young dove bears the pre-eternal eagle (6:51) -- Kondakion of the nativity (Byzantine Melkite tradition): Al-yawma-l-batûl = This day the virgin gives birth (2:21) -- Hymn from the office of the nativity (Maronite tradition): Bisanâ mawlidika = By the splendour of your nativity (4:12) -- Heirmoi of the canon at mattins [i.e. matins] by Saint Romanos the Melodist. Heirmos 1: Al-Masîḥu wulida = Christ is born, glorify him ; Heirmos 2: Li-naṣrukh naḥwa-l-ibn = Let us cry out ; Hiermos 3: ʻAẓẓimî yâ nafsî = Magnify, my soul (7:54) -- Office of the nativity of Christ (Syriaco-Maronite church). Improvisation: ʻûd ; Halel = Alleluia! ; Arsala Allâh = God has sent his only son ; Qadîsh Qadîsh = Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God! ; Halel = Alleluia! ; Ashraqa najmu-hu = His star has risen ; Mshîḥô da-b-yalde-h = O Christ whose birth ; Halel = Alleluia! (6:35) -- Troparion of the nativity (Byzantine Melkite tradition). Milâduka ʼayyuhâ-l-Masîḥ = Your birth, O Christ our God ; I yénnisis sou, Khristé = Your birth, O Christ our lord (3:12) -- Extrapostilarion from Christmas mattins [i.e. matins] (Byzantine Melkite tradition). ʼInna mukhalliṣana = Our saviour has come down from the orient of all dawns (anon.) (3:31) ; Yâ Imm Fâdî-l-kawn = O mother of the redeemer (Marie Keyrouz, text by Nadim Kairouz) (7:56).

Disc 2. Ave Maria / Franz Schubert (4:39) -- Pietà, signore / Louis Niedermeyer (attr. Stradella) [i.e. Fétis] (6:50) -- Panis angelicus / César Franck (4:42) -- Ave Maria / Anton Bruckner (5:45) -- O sanctissima / Ludwig van Beethoven (2:59) -- Salve, o Maria / Pietro Mascagni (3:48) -- Sandmännchen / anon., arr. Brahms (2:48) -- Ave Maria / César Franck (4:33) -- Offertorium: Tota pulcrha es / Robert Schumann (3:16) -- Adeste fideles / Anon, attrib. Wade (2:04) -- Mille cherubini in coro / [Alois Melichar, based on music of] Franz Schubert (4:26) -- Ave Maria after the first prelude in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier / Charles Gounod (3:19) -- Tuscan folksong / Luigi Gordigiani (3:40) -- Stille Nacht / Franz Gruber (5:37).