Catalogue
HAVPCD212 – Mediaeval Carols
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| 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 |
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| 4 | Alleluia: A new work is come on hand |
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| 19 | Letabundus Ecce completa sunt omnia |
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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.
