Harmonia Mundi France: HMU 907099 (on container: 907099). "Plainchant, songs, motets, and carols for Christmas"--Program notes. Sung in Latin or Middle English. Compact disc. The sources for the music on this recording listed in program notes. Container and program notes in slipcase. Program notes by Susan Hellauer in English with French and German translations and texts in Middle English and Latin with English, French, and German translations (78 p. : ill.) in slipcase. Anonymous 4 (Ruth Cunningham ; Marsha Genensky ; Susan Hellauer ; Johanna Rose) Recording: November 23-25, 1992, Campion Center, Boston, MA.
Contents:
Antiphon: Hodie Christus natus est (chant) (1:05) -- Motet: O nobilis nativitas/O mira dei/O decus virginum/Apparuit (:47) -- Antiphon: Lux de luce (chant) (:30) -- Carol: Alleluya: A nywe werke (5:43) -- Hymn: Verbum supernum prodiens (chant) (2:18) -- Motet: Balaam de quo vaticinans/[Ballam] (2:33) -- Carol: Ave Maria (2:39) -- Song: Gabriel, fram heven-king (3:55) -- Carol: Lullay: I saw a swete semly syght (2:53) -- Motet: Prolis eterne genitor/Psallat mater gracie/[Pes] (2:28) -- Hymn: Vox clara, ecce, intonat (chant) (3:08) -- Rondellus: De supernis sedibus (2:13) -- Antiphon: Omnes de Saba (chant) (:38) -- Motet: Puellare gremium/Purissima mater/[Pes] (1:33) -- Carol: Lullay, lullay: Als I lay on Yoolis night (8:02) -- Responsory: Tria sunt munera (chant) (3:27) -- Motet: Orto sole serene/Origo viri/Virga Iesse/[Tenor] (2:02) -- Song: Peperit virgo (4:20) -- Carol: Ecce quod natura (4:14) -- Hymn: A solis ortus cardine (chant) (3:47) -- Carol: Ther is no rose of swych vertu (3:38) -- Antiphon: Videntes stellam (chant) (:32) -- Carol: Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse (4:50).
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