Music for Evensong and the Feast of Christmas

Music for Evensong and the Feast of Christmas

The Choir of Ely Cathedral / The Renaissance Singers - Michael Howard
Verus Records (no number) [CD]

Content:

Music for Evensong

Orlando Gibbons

1. Preces

Anon.

2. Psalm 69

Anon.

3. Psalm 70

Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814-1856)

4. Office Hymn: O kind Creator bow thine ear

Walmisley

5. Magnificat in D minor

Walmisley

6. Nunc Dimitus in D minor

Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1820-1876)

7. Wash me throughly

Music for the Feast of Christmas

Thomas Caustun

8. Rejoice in the Lord

Orlando Gibbons

9. The Record of John

John Amner

10. Oh ye little flock

Olivier Messiaen

11. Les anges

Anon., plainsong mode II

12. Introit: Dominus dixit

Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina

13. Dies sanctificatus

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

14. Hodie Christus est

William Byrd

15. An earthly tree

Iacob Handl (Jacobus Gallus)

16. Resonet in laudibus

Anon., early 15th c.

17. Eya martyr Stephane

Tomás Luis de Victoria

18. O quam gloriosam

Anon., plainsong mode VII

19. Vox in Rama

Gulielmus (Guillaume) Dufay, plainsong mode i, with faux bourdon

20. Salvete flores

Anon.

21. The Coventry Carol

Playing time: ??' ??"

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

Recording site and date:
[1]-[7] unknown [March 1957]
[8]-[21] Ely Cathedral [1958 or prior]

Excerpts:
[8]-[21] Argo RG 148 Christmas Music

Comments:
Information from Argo LP listing and Jeremy Wells. Tracks [1]-[7] were taken from an amateur recording to supplement the original LP.

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