A Classical Christmas on The Third Floor, Part Three: #281

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We’ll be hearing from lots of choirs this week, ensembles such as The Monteverdi Choir, the Elora Festival Singers, NY Polyphony, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York.

TTF Program 281

December 13, 2020

Hour One

Anonymous 4, On Yoolis Night -- De supernis sedibus; Ecce quod natura; Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse; Alleluya: a nywe werke, 17:07

Medley from Robert Shaw Chorale - 12:21 Bassano: Hodie Christus natus est (The Monteverdi Choir, dir. John Eliot Gardiner) 2:29 Little Drummer Boy (St. Olaf Choir, dir. Anton Armstrong) 3:00, Total 18:10

Sleigh Ride (BBC Concert Orchestra, dir. Leonard Slatkin) Still, still, still and Once in Royal David’s City (Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields, dir. Sir Neville Marriner) 17:44

Hour Two

Coventry Carol (NY Polyphony) O Holy Night -- Wassail Song -- Hodie Christus Natus Est (Elora Festival Singers) Es ist ein Ros entsprungen -- I Saw Three Ships -- Nova! Nova! -- Come Thou Redeemer of the earth -- in the bleak mid-winter -- The Lamb (The Choir of St. Thomas Church, NYC) 32:00

Robert Shaw Choir Mix: Carols (Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, Chorale and Orchestra) 23:31

Hour Three

Anonymous 4; Wells Cathedral Choir (Biebl Ave Maria), The King’s Singers (carols from Howells) 18:30

Britten: A Boy was Born (Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, dir. Stephen Cleobury) 28:06

Bach Cantata for Christmas Day, Gloria in excelsis Deo (Ciaron McFadden, soprano; Christoph Genz, tenor; The Monteverdi Choir; The English Baroque Soloists; dir. John Eliot Gardiner) 13:42