On a Cold Winter's Day - Early Christmas music and carols from the British Isles / Quadriga Consort

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As the cold and bleak winter days descend upon us, the Quadriga Consort presents long forgotten carols and age-old tunes of the festive season. With its arrangements for period instruments, the ensemble presents a program that is peaceful and reflective, and also merry and buoyant, conjuring memories of bygone days and awakening in us that sense of peace, wonder and excitement the Christmas season once held.

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Recording information: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012).



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>Traditional, Christmas : Wassail Song ("Here We Come a-Wassailing"), carol (a.k.a. "Here We Come a-Caroling")
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 38 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Christmas
  • Written: by 1850

>Traditional, Christmas : The Huron Indian Carol ("'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime"), carol (Quebecois)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Christmas

>Traditional, Christmas : Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern (How Brightly Shines The Morning Star) (German)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.

>O'Carolan, Turlough : O'Carolan's Unnamed Tunes :: Tune no 176 (Ireland)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 26 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque

>Traditional, Christmas : The Holly and the Ivy (English)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 5 sec.
  • Form: Christmas
  • Written: circa 1710

>Traditional Christmas : A Haoidhe Naoimh (O Holy Child), carol
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Form: Christmas

>Weelkes, Thomas : To shorten winter's sadness, madrigal for 5 voices
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance

>Traditional, Christmas : Don oiche ud i mBeithil (Once upon a night in Bethlehem), carol (Irish)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 55 sec.

>Traditional, Christmas : Christmas Medley :: Christmas Eve (Reel) Christmas in Killarney (Jig) The Day before Christmas (Jig) (
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
  • Form: Christmas

>Traditional, Christmas : Pat-a-Pan (Burgundian)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
  • Written: 1700

>Traditional Christmas : Tàladh ar Slànaighear, carol
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 38 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Form: Christmas

>Traditional, Irish : On A Cold Winter's Day (from the O'Neill Collection)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance

>Traditional, Christmas : A babe is born (15th c. English), carol
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 43 sec.

>Newerkla, Nikolaus : This is the Truth Sent from Above, for chorus
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary

>Traditional, Christmas : The Wexford Carol ("Good People All, This Christmastime") (Enniscorthy Carol) (Irish)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 6 min. 10 sec.
  • Period Time: Medieval
  • Form: Christmas
  • Written: 12th Century

>Traditional Christmas : Gower Wassail, carol
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Form: Christmas

>Anonymous, English : Drive the Cold Winter Away (from John Playford's English Dancing Master)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Form: Christmas

>Traditional, Christmas : Deck the Halls (Welsh)
  • Performer: Nikolaus Newerkla (Harpsichord)
  • Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
  • Notes: Gertrudskirche, Gars am Kamp, Austria (05/03/2012-05/06/2012)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 23 sec.
  • Form: Christmas
  • Written: by 1784