Welcome Yule: An English Christmas Revels

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Album Summary

Performers

• Laurie Monahan (Voice)
• Daniela Tosic (Alto)
• David Coffin (Voice)
• Jamie Jaffe (Alto)
• Laura Gulley (Violin)
• David Torrey (Tambourine)
• Daniel Rowe (Cello)
• Mary Neumann (Flute)

Ensemble

• Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble

Composers

• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
• Orlando Gibbons (17th cent. Composer) (1583 - 1625)
• George Emlen
• John Fleagle
• Michael Beesly (1700 - )
• Anonymous, English
• Thomas Ravenscroft (1582 - 1635)
• Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934)
• Richard Storrs Willis (1819 - 1900)
• Anonymous
• Christmas Traditional
• Antony Holborne (circa 1545 - 1602)
• Shaker Traditional
• Marshall Barron
• Philipp Nicolai (1556 - 1608)

Notes & Reviews:

This joyous new holiday CD highlights the best of Revels' most popular English-themed Christmas productions and features stunning music, songs and holiday carols from Medieval, Renaissance and Victorian periods. The Christmas Revels Chorus and Children's Chorus are joined by a host of wind, string and brass instruments in a wide array of festive music for the season. Particularly moving is the thrilling live sound of 1,000 audience members filling Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with their voices on the peace round, "Dona Nobis Pacem," one of several live cuts found on this new recording. Other live cuts include "The Sussex Mummers' Carol" and The Christmas Revels' iconic signature piece, "The Lord of the Dance."

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Futura Productions, Roslindale, MA (03/2010).

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph : On Christmas Night, carol for chorus or voice & piano ("Sussex Carol"; Traditional English Carols No

• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 2 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1919

Anonymous, English : English Te Deum

• Performers: Laurie Monahan (Voice); Daniela Tosic (Alto); David Coffin (Voice)
• Running Time: 1 min. 55 sec.
• Written: circa 1300

Traditional, Christmas : All Hail to the Days, carol (English)

• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Form: Christmas

Gibbons, Orlando : The Cryes of London, consort song in 2 sections for 5 voices & 5 viols

• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Ravenscroft, Thomas : Tomorrow the Fox Will Come to Town

• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Holborne, Anthony : English Dances (6)

• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Emlen, George : Salutation Carol / Bring Us Good Ale, carol medley

• Performers: Jamie Jaffe (Alto); David Coffin (Voice)
• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.

Holst, Gustav : In the bleak mid-winter

• Running Time: 1 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1904-1905

Traditional, Shaker : Lord of the Dance

• Performer: David Coffin (Voice)
• Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Studio/Live: Live

Traditional, Christmas : Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu, carol (English)

• Performers: Laurie Monahan (Voice); Daniela Tosic (Alto)
• Running Time: 3 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Christmas

Fleagle, John : Holly and His Merry Men, song

• Performers: Laura Gulley (Violin); David Coffin (Voice); David Torrey (Tambourine)
• Running Time: 1 min. 46 sec.

Willis, Richard Storrs : It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1850

Barron, Marshall : English Country Dances, medley for flute, violin & cello

• Performers: Daniel Rowe (Cello); Mary Neumann (Flute); Laura Gulley (Violin)
• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.

Beesly, Michael : While shepherds watched their flocks by night (A Collection of 20 New Psalm Tunes, 1746)

• Running Time: 1 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 17th Century

Anonymous : Dona nobis pacem

• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Studio/Live: Live

Nicolai, Philipp : There Shall a Star from Jacob Come Forth, song for chorus (after Mendelssohn)

• Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Emlen, George : Come and I Will Sing You, song

• Performer: David Coffin (Voice)
• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 6 min. 7 sec.

Traditional, Christmas : Rejoice, Ye Tenants of the Earth, carol (English)

• Ensemble: Revels Early Music Band and Parlor Ensemble
• Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.

Emlen, George : The Sussex Mummers' Carol, carol setting for chorus & brass ensemble

• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Studio/Live: Live