Christmas Music from Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Contents:

from England....

Puer natus est nobis [3'06]
Plainsong: Introit for Mass of the Day - The Nativity of our Lord
Nowell, nowell: In Bethlem [2'16]
anonymous, 15th century
Gaudete [1'25]
traditional, collected in Piae Cantiones, 1582
Nesciens Mater [4'52]
Walter Lambe (c1450-c1500)
The Song of the Nuns of Chester [3'09]
traditional, found in c1425 manuscript
Coventry Carol [3'22]
traditional, from 1591 manuscript
The Boar's Head Carol [1'27]
traditional, from 1521 manuscript
Videte miraculum [9'48]
Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585)

from the Continent....
Quem pastores laudavere [2'17]
traditional, German 15th century manuscript edited by David Wulstan
Pueri, concinite [1'52]
Jacob Handl (1550-1591)
0 magnum mysterium [2'22]
Jacob Handl
Resonet in laudibus [1'19]
Jacob Handl
In dulci jubilo [2'46]
traditional, German 14th century
Riu, riu chiu [2'15]
traditional, Spanish medieval (printed version 1556)
Nesciens Mater [5'49]
Jean Mouton (c1459-1522)
Omnes de Saba [3'20]
Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)