Polyphony - O magnum mysterium, Twentieth-Century Carols

This disc brings together some of the best examples from the English carol revival, a genre which had largely fallen from favour in the three centuries before our own. Works by Warlock, Howells and their contemporaries sit ideally alongside contemplative chant from the medieval tradition at Salisbury, in its time as quintessentially English as the twenty-two twentieth-century carols here…

Program:
01 - O radix lesse (Plainchant)
02 - Alleluya, A new Work is come on Hand (Wishart)
03 - A Spotless Rose (Howells)
04 - Out of your sleep (Bennett)
05 - Of a rose is all my song (Leighton)
06 - There is no rose (Bennett)
07 - As dew in Aprylle (Warlock)
08 - O magnum mysterium (Plainchant)
09 - Bethlehem Down (Warlock)
10 - That younge child (Bennett)
11 - I saw a fair maiden (Warlock)
12 - Sing Lullaby (Howells)
13 - Ave Maria (Plainchant)
14 - Sweet was the song (Bennett)
15 - A Hymn of the Nativity (Leighton)
16 - Lullaby my Jesus (Warlock)
17 - Hodie Christus natus est (Plainchant)
18 - All and some (Byrt)
19 - An Ode of the birth of our Saviour
20 - Susanni (Bennett)
21 - Puer natus est nobis (Plainchant)
22 - Benedicamus Domino (Warlock)
23 - A Cornish Christmas Carol (Warlock)
24 - Reges Tharsis (Plainchant)
25 - Here is the Little Door (Howells)
26 - The Star-song (Leighton)
27 - What cheer (Walton)
28 - Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (Leighton)
29 - Verbum caro factum est (Plainchant)