Mediæval Carols

Mediæval Carols

The Mystery of Christmas Night - Words and Music from the Middle Ages
Opus Anglicanum
Herald HAVPCD 212

Contents:

Anon., 13th c., Salisbury Antiphoner

1. O virgo virginum

Anon., 13th c., Worcester

2. De supernis sedibus

Anon., early 15th c., British library MS Sloane 2593

3. Adam lay ibounden (reading)

Anon., 15th c., Oxford Bodleian MS Arch Selden b. 26

4. Alleluia: A new work is come on hand

Anon., 15th c., Cambridge, Trinity College MS 0.3.58

5. Alma redemptoris: As I lay upon a night

Anon.

6. The ox he openeth wide the door (reading)

Guillaume de Machaut

7. Felix virgo / Inviolata genitrix

Anon., 15th c., Salisbury Processional

8. Missus est angelus Gabriel

John Awdlay

9. There is a floure sprung of a tree (reading)

William Horwood

10. Gaude flori virginali

Maurice de Sully

11. Sermon on the Day of Epiphany (Reading)

Anon., 15th c., Salisbury Processional

12. Descendit de celis

Anon., early 15th c., British library MS Sloane 2593

13. I sing of a maiden (reading)

Anon., 15th c. Oxford Bodleian MS Arch Selden b. 26

14. Ave Maria: Hailed blessed flower

Anon., 15th c., British Library Add. MS 5665

15. Lullay, lullow

Anon., 15th c., Second Shepherds' Play

16. Hail, comly and clene (reading)

Perotin

17. Viderunt omnes

Geoffrey Chaucer

18. O moder Mayde (reading)

Anon., 13th c., Salisbury Antiphoner

19. Letabundus
    Ecce completa sunt omnia

Playing time: 75' 02"

Performers:
Opus Anglicanum [John Touhey (reader), Stephen Tilton (counter-tenor), Julian Stocker (tenor), William Lee (tenor), Roland Robertson (baritone), John Rowlands-Pritchard (bass)]

Recording site and date:
John Wood Chapel, Prior, Bath, UK [07 / 1997]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (#-p.):

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