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November 16th, 2012
HAVPCD212 – Mediaeval Carols

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HAVPCD212 - Mediaeval Carols The Mystery of Christmas Night: Words and music from the Middle Ages
Disk Title Mediaeval Carols
The Mystery of Christmas Night: Words and music from the Middle Ages
Choir Opus Anglicanum
Location John Wood Chapel, Prior Park, Bath
Date Recorded July 1997
Audio Tracks 19
Trk. Title Audio Sample
2 De supernis sedibus
19 Letabundus
Ecce completa sunt omnia

This meditation on the mystery of Christmas night has evolved through annual performances in Wells Cathedral, in which the whole space of the building is used. The materials of the meditation are music and words from the centuries during which the cathedral was being built, and the whole programme was devised by John Rowlands-Pritchard.

Trk. Duration Track Title Composer
1
01:32 O virgo virginum Salisbury Antiphoner
2
02:25 De supernis sedibus Worcester, 13th century
3
00:41 Reading: Adam lay ibounden early 15th century
4
04:23 Alleluia: A new work is come on hand 15th century
5
03:24 Alma redemptoris: As I lay upon a night 15th century
6
01:05 Reading: The ox he openeth wide the door Anon.
7
03:56 Felix virgo/Involata genitrix Guillaume de Machaut
8
03:20 Missus est angelus Gabriel Salisbury Processional
9
02:43 Reading: There is a floure sprung of a tree John Awdlay
10
11:35 Gaude flori virginali William Horwood
11
07:28 Reading: Sermon on the Day of Epiphany Maurice de Sully
12
06:58 Descendit de celis Salisbury Processional
13
00:44 Reading: I sing of a maiden early 15th century
14
02:51 Ave Maria: Hail blessed flower 15th century
15
03:16 Lullay, lullow 15th century
16
01:46 Reading: Hail, comly and clene Second Shepherds’ Play
17
11:20 Viderunt omnes Pérotin
18
01:23 Reading: O moder Mayde Geoffrey Chaucer
19
03:29 Letabundus
Ecce completa sunt omnia		 Salisbury Antiphoner

Opus Anglicanum was founded in 1988 by five professional singers and a BBC reader, whose aim is to develop and present their own unique and idiosyncratic programmes of words and unaccompanied vocal music. Using early music, special arrangements, folk-song, chant, and contemporary music, they create a distinctive type of entertainment which has attracted a devoted following.

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