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A Medieval Christmas -- Pro Cantione Antiqua & Medieval Wind Ensemble
Carols were originally festive song-dances with which medieval Europe
celebrated all kinds of happy occasions, and Christmas, the most joyous season of
the year, developed its own repertoire of them. The early Christmas carols on this
disc were created in England, France and Germany at various times from the twelfth
century to the fifteenth. It is no longer known, in most cases, who wrote the individual
carols. They are generally songs with several stanzas of devotional but sometimes
earthy text, each stanza sung to the same music, sometimes with varied interludes
between them. The names of the poets and composers who wrote them are for the
most part unknown. The carols are sung here in the manner that scholars believe
was used when they were new, and they are played on replicas of ancient
instruments.
Songlist
1.. Ductia (English, 13th century)
shawm & bombarde
2.. Alle psallite (German, 13th century)
voices
3.. Portugaler (French?, 14th/15th century)
3 recorders
4.. Angelus ad Virginem (English, 13th/14th century)
voices & tabor
5.. In seculum breve (French, 13th century)
3 recorders
6.. Orientis partibus (Song of the Ass) (French, 13th century)
voices
7.. Ductia (English, 13th century)
2 recorders
8.. Verbum patris (French, 12th century)
voices
9.. E semine rosa (French, 12th/13th century)
voices
10. Alleluia psallat (English, 13th/14th century)
voices
11. Thys Yol (English, 14th/15th century)
shawm & bombarde
12. Edi beo thu (English, 13th century)
voices
13. Ecce quod natura (English, 15th century)
voices
14. Nova, nova (English, 15th century)
voices
15. Goday my Lord Syre Cristemasse (English, 15th century)
voices, bombarde & sackbut
16. Danse real (French, 13th century)
bagpipe & timbrel
voices
18. Virgo (French, 13th century)
3 recorders
19. Beata viscera (English, 13th century)
voices
20. Quene note (English, 14th/15th century)
2 doucaines
21. Gilles Binchois: A Solis Ortus (French, 15th century)
voices
22. John Hothby: Tard il mio cor (English, 15th century)
3 doucaines
23. Ther ys no rose (English, 15th century)
voices
24. Nowel, synge we both al and som (English, 15th century)
voices & recorders
25. Nowel, owt of your slepe (English, 15th century)
voices
26. Hayl Mary (English, 15th century)
voices
27. Synge we to this mery cumpane (English, 15th century)
voices & doucaines
PRO CANTIONE ANTIQUA:
Charles Brett, countertenor
Timothy Penrose, countertenor
James Griffett, tenor
Neil Jenkins, tenor
Ian Partridge, tenor
Brian Etheridge, bass
Michael George, bass
MEDIEVAL WIND ENSEMBLE:
Peter Davies, recorders, doucaine, bombarde, bagpipes
Jonathan Morgan, recorders, doucaine, shawm
Andrew van der Beek, recorders, doucaine, shawm, sackbut
Mark Brown, tabor, timbrel
Directed by MARK BROWN
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