Orlando Consort (The) - Medieval Christmas

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ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10

SOUND QUALITY: 10

(CLASSICSTODAY.com)




Medieval Christmas celebrations encompassed several feasts, including Circumcision & Epiphany. The Orlando Consort offers an unusual collection of carols ranging from devotional to boisterous, drawn from a 500-year span of secular and liturgical music from England, France and the Low Countries.


The Orlando Consort
The Orlando Consort - Medieval Christmas



PROPHECY

1 Christe redemptor / Winchester Troper

2 Quem Iohannes / Winchester Troper

3 Alleluia V. Dies sanctificatus / Winchester Troper

4 O primus homo corruit / Aquitanian

5 Lux refulget / Aquitanian



NEW YEAR'S DAY

6 Annus renascitur / Anonymous

7 De quan qu'on peut / Anonymous

8 Tout mon désir / Arnold de Lantins

9 Ce jour de l'an / Guillaume Dufay



THE CAROL

10 Clangat tuba / Anonymous

11 Ave rex angelorum / Anonymous

12 Eya, martyr Stephane / Anonymous



NARRATIVE MOTETS

13 Vox in Rama / Clemens non Papa

14 Lullay, lullow: I saw a swete semely sight / Anonymous

15 O admirabile commercium / Loyset Compère

16 Pastores loquebantur / Clemens non Papa



NOEL

17 Noel, noel, noel / Antoine Busnois

18 Noe, noe, noe / Antoine Brumel

19 Nato canunt omnia / Antoine Brumel