St. Martin's Chamber Choir

An Olde English Christmas

Program notes from Artistic Director Timothy J. Krueger

 

I. Old Texts, Old Music  
  A Virgin and Mother John Merbeck (c.1505-c.1585)
  Quem vidistis pastores? Richard Deering (c.1580-1630)
  Upon my lap my soveraigne sits Martin Peerson (c.1572-1650)
  Lirum lirum Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
 
II. Old Texts, Modern Music  
  The Fader of Heven Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934)
  A Hymn to the Virgin Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
  Three Marian Carols Glen McGrath
  There is no Rose David Cutforth (b. 1923)
  Cradle Song C. Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)
  A Virgin's Cradle Song Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
  I sing of a Maid Philip, Lord Rea of Eskdale (1900-1981)
  My Dancing Day Clifford Harker (1912-1999)
  When Christ was born C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
 
III. A Round of Victorian Carols  
  Taken from the Cowley Carol Book  
     
IV. Modernity and Nostalgia  
  In Terra Pax Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
 

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