A WAVERLY CONSORT CHRISTMAS
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Christmas from East Anglia to Appalachia
Seasonal
carols, hymns, and wassailing songs sung
in English-speaking lands on both sides
of the Atlantic, from 13th-century East
Anglia to Ireland to 18th-century New
England and Appalachia. Features early
shape-note hymns by William Billings and
songs from the great American at-home
singing books, The Southern Harmony,
and The Sacred Harp.
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| 1. The
Gloucestershire Wassail (Traditional
English) |
4:09 |
| 2. ROBERT
COWPER (c1474-c1535-40): Gloria in
excelsis |
3:41 |
| 3. Gabriel, fram heven-king (English,
late 13th century) |
4:54 |
| 4. Campanis cum cymbalis/Honoremus
dominam (English motet, 13th century) |
3:30 |
| 5. Ave mundi rosa (English cantilena,
14th century) |
3:08 |
| 6. Verbum patris hodie (Benedicamus
trope of the Sarum rite) |
2:11 |
| 7. WILLIAM
BILLINGS (1746-1800): Bethlehem (The
Singing Master's Assistant, Boston,
1778) |
4:32 |
| 8. Exultation (American shape-note
hymn, The Southern Harmony, ed. 1854) |
3:14 |
| 9. Star in the East (American shape-note
hymn) |
5:25 |
| 10. WILLIAM
BILLINGS: Shiloh (The Singing Master's
Assistant) |
2:40 |
| 11. Ther is no rose of swych vertu
(English carol, 15th century) |
3:46 |
| 12. This endris night I saw a sight
(Traditional English ballad carol,
c1600) |
5:06 |
| 13. Lully, lulla, thow little tyne
child ("The Coventry Carol,"
English, 15th century) |
3:39 |
| 14. The Darkest Midnight in December
(Traditional Irish) |
4:24 |
15. A "Wassail" Suite:
The old yeare now away is fled ("Greensleeves")
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Instrumental variations on "Greensleeves"
Here we come awassailing (Traditional
Wassail Songs of Leeds and Yorkshire) |
8:28 |
Total
timings |
63:49 |
PERFORMERS:
Rita Lilly, soprano;
Kathy Theil, soprano;
Katie Geissinger, mezzo-soprano;
Larry Lipnik, countertenor,
baritone, bowed psaltery;
Timothy Leigh Evans,
tenor, finger cymbals;
John Olund, tenor;
John Shankweiler, tenor;
Joel Frederiksen, bass-baritone.
Kay Jaffee, harp,
plucked psaltery, recorder,
hammered bells; Michael
Jaffee, lute, citole,
guitar, plucked psaltery,
medieval cup bells; Rosamund
Morley, bass viol, vielle,
kemençe, violone;
Tom Zajac, three-hole
pipe; plucked psaltery,
flute, recorder, jaw-harp,
hurdy-gurdy.
ASSISTED BY: Ben
Freed, banjo;
Lisa Gutkin, fiddle.
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