Anthology
"The Christmas Story". Plain chant, motets, dialogues & traditional carols
Theatre of Voices, Ars Nova Copenhagen,, Paul Hillier
1h05
Digital
HMU807565
Apple Music
Inspired by the much-loved service of “Nine Lessons and Carols” given every Christmas Eve in England, this recording presents the Nativity story told through plainchant, motets, 17th Century dialogues, and traditional folk carols. Paul Hillier leads Theatreof Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen in music he has culled and arranged from Italian, German, Danish, English, and American sources.
ANONYMOUS · Rorate coeli desuper (2'31) TRADITIONAL · Veni veni Emanuel (3'19) · Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (3'26) BIASIO TOMASI · Dum deambularet Dominus in Paradisum (4'54) HOWARD SKEMPTON [1947-] · Adam lay y-bounden (1'36) ROBERT LUCAS PEARSALL [1795-1856] · In dulci iubilo (3'21) ALESSANDRO GRANDI · Missus est Gabriel (7'27) ANONYMOUS · Puer natus est (3'03) WILLIAM BYRD [1543-1623] · O magnum mysterium (3'06) GIOVANNI FRANCESCO ANERIO · Voi ch'ai notturni rai (6'10) TRADITIONAL · Dormi, dormi, o bel bambin (2'01) · Liebe Hirten (1'36) · Andachtsjodler (2'26) JOHN HENRY HOPKINS · We three kings (3'55) ANONYMOUS · Videntes stellam (0'33) TRADITIONAL · Personent hodie (1'51) ANONYMOUS · Herodes iratus (0'37) · Vox in Rama (1'11) JOHANNES ECCARD · Uebers Gebirg (2'47) · Maria wallt zum Heiligtum (3'12) TRADITIONAL · The holly and the ivy (2'47) NIELS GADE · Barn Jesus i en krybbe la (1'56) TRADITIONAL · We wish you a merry Christmas (1'34)
