The Trinity Carol Roll

Deo gracias Anglia!
Medieval English Carols
The Trinity Carol Roll
Alamire - David Skinner
Obsidian 709

Contents:

    The Trinity Carol Roll, Nos. 1-7
  1. Hail Marye ful of grace
  2. Nowel, nowel, nowel
  3. Alma redemptoris mater
  4. Now may we syngyn
  5. Be mery, be mery
  6. Nowel syng we
  7. Deo gracias Anglia

    8.  
  8. Nowel, nowel
  9. Lullay, lullay
  10. Princeps pacis
  11. Nova, nova
  12. Tibi laus, tibi gloria

    13. The Trinity Carol Roll, Nos. 8-13
  13. Now make we merthe
  14. Abyde I hope it be the beste
  15. Qwat tydynges bryngyst thu messager
  16. Eya martir Stephane
  17. Prey for us the prynce of pees
  18. Ther is no rose of swych vertu

Performers: Grace Davidson (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (contralto), Nicholas Todd (tenor), Simon Wall (tenor); Andrew Lawrence-King (harp, psaltery), Michaël Grébil (lute), Pamela Thorby (recorder, gemshorn)

Playing time: 65'

Recording date: September 2011 (Cambridge); released: 2012

The Trinity Carol Roll, compiled sometime after 1415, is the earliest source of English polyphonic carols.

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Todd M. McComb