Gesu (Jesu), Bambino
Sep 5th, 2007 by skanson.com
Gesu (Jesu) Bambino is a beautiful setting of a traditional Italian carol. The tranquil strains of the gentle lullaby Gesu (Jesu) Bambino feature Classical Guitar with drop “D” tuning, strings, and bells. Even though not as well known here in America, Gesu (Jesu) Bambino is one of the 
most beautiful carols ever written.
Pietro A. Yon - Italian organist and composer of Gesu (Jesu) Bambino. He studied at the Conservatories of Milan and Turin. In 1904 he entered the Academy of Saint Cecilia in Rome to study organ with Renzi, piano with Sgambati and composition with de Sanctis. For two years he served as deputy organist at the Vatican and the royal church in Rome. From 1907 he was organist and choirmaster of the church of St. Francis Xavier in New York. He won a wide reputation as a concert organist and composer of the Italian Christmas carol Gesu (Jesu) Bambino. In 1921 he was made honarary organist of the Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican.
Darren Curtis Skanson’s Light Classical Guitar music has a timeless classical sound with familiar melodies and fresh new compositions that all lean to the gentle and melodic side of Classical. 
With 9 compact discs to his resume, Darren is a classical guitar musical 
force. His Spanish and Flamenco release “Solamente Romanz” reached #8 on Billboard’s Top Classical Chart. Darren’s previous CD, “Classica” which features classical guitar reached #11 on that same chart. Darren was also proclaimed; “… the most requested classical guitarist on Beethoven Radio” by Beethoven.com, the #1 Classical Radio Station in the world.
Although Skanson is known mostly for his classical guitar compositions, he is also a prolific arranger. His classical guitar arrangements of Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and other classical composers are among the most essential to the classical guitar repertoire.
English text for Gesu (Jesu), Bambino translated and re-wrote by Frederick H. Martens
When blossoms flowered ‘mid the snows, upon a winter night. Was born the Child, the Christmas Rose, the King of Love and Light. The angels sang, the shepherds sang, the grateful earth rejoiced. And at His blessed birth, the stars their exultation voiced.
O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him Christ, the Lord.
Again the heart with rapture glows, to greet the holy night. That gave the world its Christmas Rose, its King of Love and Light. Let ev’ry voice acclaim His name, the grateful chorus swell. From paradise to earth He came, that we with Him might dwell.
O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him, O come let us adore Him Christ, the Lord.
Ah! O come let us adore Him, adore Him, Christ, the Lord. O come, O come, O come let us adore Him. Let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.