Carols From Oxford: Victorian & English

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Composers

• Christmas Traditional
• William Byrd (Composer) (1543 - 1623)
• John Goss (Composer) (1800 - 1880)
• John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820 - 1891)
• Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934)
• Anthony Milner (1925 - 2002)
• Henry Smart
• John Bacchus Dykes (1823 - 1876)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Anonymous
• Thomas Ravenscroft (1582 - 1635)
• Joseph Barnby (1838 - 1896)
• Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
• Patrick Hadley (1899 - 1973)

Notes & Reviews:

A collection of 29 carols, dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries, are performed by the Magdalen College Choir. Magdalen College, Oxford, played an important part in the Victorian revival of the celebration of Christmas with the singing of carols: a Fellow of Magdalen, J.R. Bloxam, is recorded to have held a musical entertainment for the Magdalen choristers on Christmas Eve in 1840 or 1841, and this subsequently became a tradition.

A collection of 29 carols, dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries, are performed by the Magdalen College Choir. Magdalen College, Oxford, played an important part in the Victorian revival of the celebration of Christmas with the singing of carols: a Fellow of Magdalen, J.R. Bloxam, is recorded to have held a musical entertainment for the Magdalen choristers on Christmas Eve in 1840 or 1841, and this subsequently became a tradition.

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Anonymous : Come All You Worthy Gentlemen

• Running Time: 1 min. 24 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : Nova, Nova, Ave fit ex Eva

• Running Time: 1 min. 20 sec.

Anonymous : Goday My Lord Syre Cristemasse, carol

• Running Time: 1 min. 47 sec.

Traditional, Christmas : Ave Maria :: Hail blessed flower

• Running Time: 1 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 14th Century

Milner, Anthony : Out of Your Sleep Arise, for chorus & organ

• Running Time: 2 min. sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : Coventry Carol (2) :: "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"

• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1498

Ravenscroft, Thomas : Remember, O thou man (from Melismata, 1611)

• Running Time: 2 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas

Byrd, William : Lullaby

• Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 1588

Byrd, William : This day Christ was born, anthem for 6 voices (SSAATB)

• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Traditional, Christmas : Jacob's Ladder, carol ("As Jacob with travel was weary one day") (English)

• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : The First Nowell (English)

• Running Time: 4 min. 34 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1823

Smart, Henry : Why, most highest? (Jesus in the Manger), carol

• Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas

Barnby, Joseph : The virgin stills the crying (A Cradle-song of the Blessed Virgin), carol

• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : Moon Shines Bright

• Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : I Saw Three Ships, carol

• Running Time: 1 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1666

Traditional, Christmas : What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)

• Running Time: 2 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1600

Goss, John : See Amid the Winter's Snow, for chorus

• Running Time: 4 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas

Dykes, John Bacchus : Sleep, Holy Babe, for chorus

• Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Traditional, Christmas : Good Christian Men, Rejoice (a.k.a. "All Christians Now Rejoice")

• Running Time: 1 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1853

Traditional, Christmas : Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)

• Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1582

Traditional, Christmas : A babe is born (15th c. English), carol

• Running Time: 2 min. 16 sec.

Sullivan, Arthur : All this night, partsong for chorus

• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Traditional, Christmas : Wassail Song ("Here We Come a-Wassailing"), carol (a.k.a. "Here We Come a-Caroling")

• Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1850

Hopkins, John Henry : We three kings

• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1857

Britten, Benjamin : Friday Afternoons :: A New Year Carol

• Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1935

Hadley, Patrick : I sing of a maiden

• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1936

Holst, Gustav : Lullay my liking, for soprano & chorus, Op. 34/2, H. 129

• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1916

Holst, Gustav : Of one that is so fair, for SATB & chorus, Op. 34/3, H. 130

• Running Time: 1 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: circa 1916

Holst, Gustav : This have I done for my true love, for chorus, Op. 34/1, H. 128

• Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1916