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Hodie Christus natus est

composer

Anonymous - liturgical

author of text

Anonymous - liturgical

Magnificat Antiphon on Christmas Day

Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

Recording details: August 1996
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Lucas
Engineered by Ken Blair
Release date: October 1996
Total duration: 0 minutes 54 seconds

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‘A gloriously sung collection … captures the tranquil pastoral mood of Christmas Eve. The recording could hardly be bettered’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘Polyphony is superb … the most completely recommendable new issue for Christmas I've found so far’ (The Independent on Sunday)

‘The choir conveys Warlock's genius quite irresistibly. These are superlative performances, beautifully recorded. A first-rate production’ (Organists' Review)

Introduction
English

Hodie Christus natus est (Christ is born today) is the Magnificat antiphon for Christmas Day in the Catholic plainchant tradition, and is famously included as the start and end of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. The original plainchant melody first appears in a Swiss manuscript from c990AD, but it had likely been in circulation for a long time by then.

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Hodie Christus natus est

Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

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