Elizabethan Christmas Anthems / Byrrd, Holborne, Tomkins, Gibbons, et al.

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Album Summary

Performers

• Kate Eckersley (Soprano)
• Charles Daniels (Voice)
• Donald Greig (Baritone)
• Alison Crum (Viol)
• Richard Wistreich
• John Bryan (Viol)
• Elizabeth Little (Viol)
• Emily van Evera (Soprano)
• John Potter

Ensemble

• Rose Consort of Viols

Composers

• Orlando Gibbons (17th cent. Composer) (1583 - 1625)
• Martin Peerson (1572 - 1651)
• Antony Holborne (circa 1545 - 1602)
• William Byrd (Composer) (1543 - 1623)
• John Amner (1579 - 1641)
• John Bull (circa 1562 - 1628)
• Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656)
• Christmas Traditional

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Forde Abbey, Somerset, England (11/1989).

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Works Details

Gibbons, Orlando : This is the record of John

• Performers: Kate Eckersley (Soprano); Charles Daniels (Voice); Donald Greig (Baritone)
• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1611

Byrd, William : Christe qui lux a 4, for instrumental consort no 3

• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 1 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Tomkins, Thomas : Sing unto God

• Performers: Charles Daniels (Voice); Donald Greig (Baritone)
• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 6 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Peerson, Martin : Upon My Lap

• Performers: Alison Crum (Viol); Richard Wistreich; John Bryan (Viol); Elizabeth Little (Viol); Donald Greig (Baritone); Emily van Evera (Soprano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Byrd, William : Fantasia a 5, for instrumental consort in C major

• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 5 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Amner, John : O Ye Little Flock, verse anthem for 4 & 6 voices

• Performers: Kate Eckersley (Soprano); Charles Daniels (Voice); Donald Greig (Baritone); Emily van Evera (Soprano)
• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 5 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral

Byrd, William : Browning a 5, for instrumental consort ("The Leaves Bee Greene")

• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Notes: Composition written: Circa 1590.
• Running Time: 4 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Vocal
• Written: circa 1590

Traditional, Christmas : Sweet Was the Song the Virgin Sung, carol (English)

• Performers: John Potter; Kate Eckersley (Soprano)
• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 2 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Holborne, Antony : The cradle, for consort

• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 5 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Bull, John : Almighty God, who by the leading "Starre Anthem"

• Performers: Kate Eckersley (Soprano); Charles Daniels (Voice); Donald Greig (Baritone); Emily van Evera (Soprano)
• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 4 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Byrd, William : Lullaby

• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 5 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 1588

Gibbons, Orlando : In Nomine a 5, no 2, for viols, MB28

• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 4 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Gibbons, Orlando : See, see, the word is incarnate

• Performers: Emily van Evera (Soprano); Kate Eckersley (Soprano); Charles Daniels (Voice); Donald Greig (Baritone)
• Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols
• Running Time: 5 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1610