I Sing the Birth

I Sing the Birth
New York Polyphony
Avie AV2141

Contents:

    Andrew Smith
  1. Veni Redemptor gentium

    2. Anon., Plainchant
  2. Hodie Christus natus est

    3. Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
  3. Hodie Christus natus est

    4. Greg., Feast of the Nativity
  4. Puer natus est nobis

    5. Kenneth Leighton
  5. Lully, lulla, thou litlle tiny child

    6. Pérotin
  6. Beata viscera

    7. William Cornysh
  7. Ave Maria Mater Dei

    8. Plainchant
  8. Alma Redemptoris Mater

    9. Trad., Irish, arr. Alexander Craig
  9. The darkest midnight in December

    10. Peter Maxwell Davies
  10. The Fader of Heven

    11. Anon.
  11. Introit: Vox in Rama

    12. Clemens non Papa
  12. Vox in Rama

    13. Anon.
  13. Introit: Vox in Rama (reprise)

    14. Trad., Normandy, arr. New York Polyphony
  14. Away in a manger

    15. Robert Parsons
  15. Ave Maria

    16. Anon., Coventry Carol
  16. Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child

    17. Plainchant
  17. Ave Maria

    18. Anon, English carol, 15th c.
  18. Lullay, lullow, I saw a swete semly syght

    19. Anon, English carol, 15th c.
  19. Mervele noght, Josep

    20. Richard Smert
  20. Nowell: Dieus wous garde, byewsser

    21. Plainchant
  21. Veni Redemptor gentium

    22. William Byrd
  22. O magnum mysterium

    23. Plainchant
  23. Ecce advenit dominator Dominus

    24. Clemens non Papa
  24. Magi veniunt ab oriente

    25. Andrew Smith
  25. Nunc dimittis

    26. Plainchant
  26. Vox in Rama

Playing time: 60' 55"

Performers:
New York Polyphony
Geoffrey Dunstan Williams (counter-tenor), Geoffrey Silver (tenor), Scott Dispensa (baritone), Craig Phillips (bass-baritone)
with: Elizabeth Barber (soprano), Ruth Cunningham (soprano), Emilie Williams (alto)

Recording site and date:
St George's Church, Stuyvesant Square, New York, USA [11/2006 & 04-05/2007];
Rel.: 2007

Reviewed in: Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 31/3-49 (January/February 2008)

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Pierre-F. Roberge