ANDREW SMITH (b. 1970)

1

Veni Redemptor gentium

2:36

ANONYMOUS

2

Hodie Christus natus est

0:53

Plainchant

GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (c. 1525-1594)

3

Hodie Christus natus est

1:39

ANONYMOUS

4

Puer natus est nobis

2:47

Introit for the Feast of the Nativity

KENNETH LEIGHTON (1929-1988)

5

Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child

2:58

PEROTIN (c. 1160-1240)

6

Beata viscera

1:54

WILLIAM CORNYSHE (c. 1465-1523)

7

Ave Maria Mater Dei

2:36

ANONYMOUS

8

Alma Redemptoris Mater

1:39

Plainchant

TRADITIONAL (IRISH) arr. Alexander Craig

9

The darkest midnight in December

2:05

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES (b. 1934)

10

The Fader of Heven

1:21

ANONYMOUS

11

Vox in Rama

0:53

Introit

CLEMENTS NON PAPA (c. 1510-c. 1556)

12

Vox in Rama

3:08

ANONYMOUS

13

Vox in Rama

0:59

Introit reprise

TRADITIONAL Normandy, arr. New York Polyphony

14

Away in a manger

2:26

ROBERT PARSONS (c. 1530-?1570)

15

Ave Maria

3:35

TRADITIONAL

16

Lully, lulla, thow little tyne child

2:28

Coventry Carol

ANONYMOUS

17

Ave Maria

1:00

Plainchant

TRADITIONAL

18

Lullay, lullow, I saw a swete semly syght

2:10

Fifteenth-century English carol

19

Mervele noght, Josep

5:44

Fifteenth-century English carol

RICHARD SMERT (fl. 1428-1477)

20

Nowell: Dieus wous garde, byewsser

2:52

ANONYMOUS

21

Veni Redemptor gentium

0:51

Plainchant

WILLIAM BYRD (c. 1540-1623)

22

O magnum mysterium

4:54

ANONYMOUS

23

Ecce advenit dominator Dominus

2:07

Plainchant

CLEMENTS NON PAPA

24

Magi veniunt ab oriente

3:18

ANDREW SMITH

25

Nunc dimittis

2:35

ANONYMOUS

26

Vox in Rama

0:56

Plainchant

Geoffrey Dunstan Williams countertenor

Geoffrey Silver tenor

Scott Dispensa baritone

Craig Phillips bass-baritone

with

Elizabeth Baber soprano

Ruth Cunningham soprano

Emilie Williams alto

November 2006 and April/May 2007