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A Medieval English Christmas

Program: #91-51🎁   Air Date: Dec 23, 1991

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The holly and the ivy, carols and mistletoe, wassail and feasting... This holiday special traces much of what we identify as the Christmas holiday to its roots in the tribal customs and celebrations of the peoples of the British Isles. What they invented, the Christmas carol, was as Robert Aubry Davis shows us, the perfect blend of folk music and sacred art.

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  1. Anon.: Angelus ad virginam, (The Noyse of Musitians). Plant Life LP PLR-043.
  2. Anon.: Angelus ad virginem. (Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips). Gimell CD 010.
  3. Anon.: Gabriel fram heven-king. (Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier). Harmonia Mundi CD HMC-90.1154.
  4. Anon.: Lullay lullay: As I Lay on Yoolis night. (Paul Hillier, baritone/Noyse of Musitians). Plant Life LP PLR-043.
  5. Anon.: Lullay, lullow: I saw. (Folger Consort). Bard CD 9106.
  6. Anon.: Lullay, lullow: I saw. (Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips), Gimell CD 010.
  7. Anon.: The Coventry Carol. (Taverner Consort, Choir, and Players/Andrew Parrott). EMI CD CDC-7-49809.
  8. Anon.: Song of the Nuns of Chester. (Martin Best Ensemble). Nimbus CD 5137.
  9. Anon.: Lullay: My Liking. (Deller Consort/Alfred Deller). Vanguard/Omega CD OVC-8023.
  10. Anon.: Marvel not, Joseph. (Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier). Harmonia Mundi CD HMA 90.1106.
  11. Anon.: Edi be thu, heven-queene. (Paul Hillier, baritone/Noyse of Musitians). Plant Life LP PLR-043.
  12. Anon.: There is no rose. (Martin Best Ensemble). Nimbus CD 5137.
  13. Anon.: Ah, my dear son. (Johanna Arnold, soprano/Folger Consort). Bard CD 9106.
  14. Anon.: Ecce quod natura. (Pro Cantione Antiqua/Mark Brown). MCA LP 25901.
  15. Anon.: Nova, nova. (Pro Cantione Antiqua/Bruno Turner). Pro Arte LP PAL-1079.
  16. Anon. Of oon that is so fayr and bright. (Reading). Medieval Song, translated and edited by James J. Wilmelm; E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1971.
    WALTER FRYE: So ys emprinted. (Christopher Page, harp/Christopher Wilson, lute--accompanied reading). Hyperion CD CDA-66194.
  17. RICHARD SMERT: Nowell, Nowell: Dieu vous garde. (Pro Cantione Antiqua/Bruno Turner). Pro Arte LP PAL-1079.
  18. Anon.: Nowell: Owt of Your Slepe. (Ensemble for Early Music/Frederick Renz). Nonesuch LP 8-71369.
  19. Anon.: Nowell, Nowell: Tidings True. (Folger Consort). Bard CD 910
  20. Anon.: Nowell sing we. (Primavera Singers of the New York Pro Musica/Noah Greenberg). Everest LP 3431 or Counterpoint/Esoteric LP 5521.
  21. Anon.: Thys Yool, (Martin Best Ensemble). Nimbus CD 5137.
  22. Anon.: Exculsis in numine (used under closing credits). (Folger Consort). Bard CD 9106.
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