We'll hear plenty of familiar carols and chant on this edition of Early Music Now, along with festive selections for brass instruments and motets by composers like Giovanni Gabrieli, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Giovanni Bassano. 

• Anon.    Veni, Veni Emanuel    Gabrieli Consort
• Anon.    Herders hij is geboren    Texas Early Music Project
• Anon.    Ye Sons of Men     Texas Early Music Project
• Anon.    Nowel syng we both al and som    Anonymous 4
• William Knapp    A Virgin Unspotted    Anonymous 4
• Anon.    Nowell out of your sleep    The Sixteen
• Anon.    Make we joy    The Sixteen
• Juan Garcia de Zespedes    Convidando esta la Noche    El Mundo
• Francesco Manfredini    Christmas Concerto in C major    Concerto Copenhagen
• Giovanni Bassano    Hodie Christus Natus est    Monteverdi Choir
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck    Hodie Christus Natus est    Monteverdi Choir
• Giovanni Gabrieli    Quem vidistis pastores    Gabrieli Consort & Players
• Franz Gruber    Stille Nacht    Taverner Consort
• J.S. Bach (arr.)    In Dulci Jubilo    The Gesualdo Six