"The Cherry Tree". Songs, Carols & Ballads for Christmas
Anonymous 4
0h58
Digital
HMU807453
Excerpt:The Cherry Tree. Christmas. Track no.2
Anonymous 4 brings us the Christmas story as told in medieval English carols and Anglo-American spiritual songs in a programme inspired by the 15th-century miracle ballad The Cherry Tree Carol, which flourishes both in the British Isles and in America.
“Four voices blending perfectly in vowel color, tone and intonation” – The Washington Post (concert review).
ANONYMOUS · Prose : Prophetarum presignata - Irish, 14th C. (1'30) · Carol: Nowel syng we bothe al and som - English, 15th C. (3'00) · Carol: Alma redemptoris mater - English, 15th C. (4'02) · Folk hymn: The Shepherd's Star - American, Southern Harmony, 1835 (2'22) · Ballad carol: Newell - Tydings trew - English, 15th C. (3'58) · Carol: Mervele noght Iosep - English, 15th C. (6'19) · Carol: Synge we to this mery cumpane - English, 15th C. (3'16) · Song: Qui creavit celum ("Song of the Nuns of Chester") - English, 15th C. Carol: A Virgin Unspotted - William Knapp (English, 1798-1868) (4'21) · Carol: A Virgin Unspotted - William Knapp (English, 1798-1868) American version, Wyeth's Repository of Music, Part Second, 1813 (2'35) · Carol: Now may we syngyn - English, 15th C. (2'46) · Ballad carol: Lullay my child - This ender nithgt - English, 15th C. (3'47) · Folk hymn: Star in the East - American, Southern Harmony, 1835 (3'15) · Carol: Veni redemptor gencium - English, 15th C. (5'30) · Carol ballad: The Cherry Tree Carol - English, 15th C.; this version, Kentucky, 1917 (3'11) · Prose: Salve mater misericordie - Irish, 14th C. (1'31) · Carol: Hail mary ful of grace - English, 15th C. (4'28) · Fuging tune: Bethlehem - William Billings (American, 1746-1800) (2'50)
