Program: #00-48👑 Air Date: Nov 20, 2000
Our annual review of new recordings for the season.
Next: ⮞ #00-49 🔊🎁Utrecht 2000: Pierre de la Rue: Christmas Mass
I. NOVA: A Medieval Christmas (New York's Ensemble for Early Music/Frederick Renz, dir.).
Ex Cathedra CD EC-9001.

- Anon.: Rex virginum amator.
II. A Renaissance Christmas (New York's Ensemble for Early Music/Frederick Renz, dir.).
Ex Cathedra CD EC-9003.

- Anon.: (15th cen. English): Hayl Mary, full of grace.
- Anon.: (15th cen. French): C'etait a l'heure.
- Anon./HENRY VIII: Green groweth the holly.
- Anon. (Henry VIII Book): Sweet Jesus.
[May be ordered at Amazon.com; or from the Metropolitan Museum of Art at www.metmuseum.org or at 1-800-468-7386.]
III. The Earliest Songbook in England (Gothic Voices/Christopher Page, dir.).
Hyperion CDA-67177.

- Anon.: Verbum patris umanatur O O.
- Anon.: Resonet, intonet.
- Anon.: Ad cantus letitie.
IV. MONTEVERDI: Christmas Vespers (The Danish Chamber Choir/Kim Glies Nandfred, cond.).
Classico CD CLASSCD 317.
- MONTEVERDI: Christe redemptor omnium.
V. Christmas Music (Emma Kirkby, soprano/London Baroque/Charles Medlam, dir.).
BIS CD 1135.

- PHILIPP FRIEDRICH BOEDDECKER: Natus est Jesus.
VI. Noel ancien: Noels and Carols from the Olde World (Sandra Simon, soprano/Apollo's Fire:The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra/Jeannette Sorrel, dir.).
Eclectra CD ECCD-2041.
- Anon.: Sussex carol.
- MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER: A la venue de Noel.
VII. PALESTRINA: Motets for the Season of Christmas (The Palestrina Choir/Michael Harrison, dir.).
Pro Organo CD 7114
[Note: May be ordered from the label at www.zarex.com or at 1-800-336-2224.]

- PALESTRINA: O magnum mysterium.
VIII. Dancing Day (Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano/Hesperus Ensemble).
Koch CD 3-7507-2.
- Anon. (13th cen. Italian laude): Cristo e nato.
- Anon.: Wexford Carol.
Next: ⮞ #00-49 🔊🎁Utrecht 2000: Pierre de la Rue: Christmas Mass
Composer Info
HENRY VIII, MONTEVERDI, PHILIPP FRIEDRICH BOEDDECKER, MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER, PALESTRINA
CD Info
CD EC-9001, CD EC-9003, CDA-67177, CD CLASSCD 317, BIS CD 1135, CD ECCD-2041, Pro Organo CD 7114, CD 3-7507-2
