Performer: Polyphony
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDH55216
Release: 1996
Size: 241 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: O radix Jesse
Wishart: Three Carols, Op 17
02. III. Alleluya, a new Work is come on Hand
Howells: Three Carol Anthems
03. II. A Spotless Rose
Bennett: Five Carols
04. II. Out of your sleep
05. Leighton: Of a rose is all my song
Bennett: Five Carols
06. I. There is no rose
07. Warlock: As dew in Aprylle
08. anon.: O magnum misterium
09. Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Bennett: Five Carols
10. III. That younge child
11. Warlock: I saw a fair maiden
Howells: Three Carol Anthems
12. III. Sing lullaby
13. anon.: Ave Maria
Bennett: Five Carols
14. IV. Sweet was the song
15. Leighton: A Hymn of the Nativity
16. Warlock: Lullaby my Jesus
17. anon.: Hodie Christus natus est
18. Byrt: All and some
Leighton: Carols, Op 25
19. III. An ode of the birth of our Saviour
Bennett: Five Carols
20. V. Susanni
21. anon.: Puer natus est nobis
22. Warlock: Benedicamus Domino
23. Warlock: A Cornish Christmas Carol
24. anon.: Reges Tharsis
Howells: Three Carol Anthems
25. I. Here is the little door
Leighton: Carols, Op 25
26. I. The Star-song
27. Walton: What cheer?
Leighton: Carols, Op 25
28. II. Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
29. anon.: Verbum caro factum est
This disc brings together some of the best examples from the English carol revival, a genre which had largely fallen from favour in the three centuries before our own. Works by Warlock, Howells and their contemporaries sit ideally alongside contemplative chant from the medieval tradition at Salisbury, in its time as quintessentially English as the twenty-two twentieth-century carols here so crisply performed by the exciting group Polyphony.