Christmas Music

Christmas Music
Choristers of Ely Cathedral, Renaissance Singers - Michael Howard, dir. & Arthur Wills
Argo RG 148 [LP, mono]
Argo ZRG 5148 [LP, stereo]
London OS.25118 [LP]

Content:

    Thomas Caustun
  1. Rejoice in the Lord

    2. Orlando Gibbons
  2. The Record of John

    3. John Amner
  3. Oh ye little flock

    4. Olivier Messiaen
  4. Les anges

    5. Anon., plainsong mode II
  5. Introit: Dominus dixit

    6. Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
  6. Dies sanctificatus

    7. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
  7. Hodie Christus est

    8. William Byrd
  8. An earthly tree

    9. Iacob Handl (Jacobus Gallus)
  9. Resonet in laudibus

    10. Anon., early 15th c.
  10. Eya martyr Stephane

    11. Tomás Luis de Victoria
  11. O quam gloriosam

    12. Anon., plainsong mode VII
  12. Vox in Rama

    13. Gulielmus (Guillaume) Dufay, plainsong mode i, with faux bourdon
  13. Salvete flores

    14. Anon.
  14. The Coventry Carol

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
Choristers of Ely Cathedral, The Renaissance Singers, William Jeremiah (solo treble), Richard Swabey (solo treble), John Whitworth (counter-tenor), Arthur Wills (organ) - Michael Howard, dir. (organist and Magister Choristarum).

Recording site and date:
Ely Cathedral [1958 or prior]

Compilations:
Verus Records [CD] Music for Evensong and the Feast of Christmas
Verus Records CD002 [CD] Michael Howard: A Choral Pioneer

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): (december 1959)
Revue Disques (#-p.):

Comments:
Information from MELVYL and Jeremy Wells.

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Pierre-F. Roberge