A MINSTREL'S CHRISTMAS - Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort

Alfred Deller, counter-tenor & director Deller Consort / Desmond Dupré, lute / Stanley Taylor, recorder / April Cantelo, soprano /Gerald English, tenor / Maurice Bevan, baritone

*Group as above but instead sopranos Eileen Poulter & Mary Thomas, and additional tenor Wilfred Brown; ** Deller Consort with Musica Antiqua Wien / René Clemencic

1. Anon., England, early C14: Alleluya psallat** 1:10
2. Anon. C17: Patapan 0:58
3. Anon., traditional: Here We Come a-Wassailing* 2:16
4. Anon. London Wait: Past Three o’Clock 1:53
5. Anon. Trad., England: I Saw Three Ships 2:02
6. Anon. Trad., England: The Coventry Carol 2:21
7. Anon. C16 (spring carol): Good King Wenceslas (text: J.M. Neale, C19) 2:44
8. Joseph Möhr & Hans Grüber: Silent Night 1:58
9. Anon., trad: Elizabethan popular: The Old Year Now (Greensleeves)* 2:00
10. J.H. Hopkins: Hymn: We Three Kings of Orient Are 2:20
11. Anon., traditional: Down in Yon Forest* 2:25
12. Anon. Trad., England: The First Nowell 3:09
13. Anon. Czech Carol: Rocking (Hajej, nynjej) 1:29
14. Anon. England: Christmas carol: God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen 2:35
15. Anon: Dormi Jesu 1:24
16. Anon. Ca.C15: Boar’s Head Carol 1:44
17. Anon. medieval & Gustav Holst (arr.): Lullay My Liking 2:00
18. E.H. Sears & R.S. Willis: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear 2:23
19. Anon. Germany & Robert Herrick, 1647: Herrick’s Carol 1:37
20. C.J. Alexander & H.J. Gauntlett: Once in Royal David’s City 2:36
21. Anon. medieval/Cecil Sharp (arr.): Carol: The Holly and the Ivy 2:43
22. Anon. Germany (Scheidt & J.S.Bach (harmonised): O Little One Sweet 2:39
23. Anon. medieval, (ca 1425): Processional song of the Nuns of Chester 1:41
24. Anon. C16: Winter-Rose 1:41
25. G.F. Handel (attr.): Joy to the World (text: Isaac Watts)* 1:33
26. Anon. C14, arr. Bach: Carol: In Dulci Jubilo (harmonised: J S Bach) 2:29
27. Anon., traditional, old Welsh: Deck the Halls* 1:08
28. Anon. William Ballet’s Lute-book Lullaby* 2:13
29. Ye Shepherds leave* 1:48
30. Anon., traditional, old Besançon: Carol tune: People Look East* 1:55
31. Anon., traditional, Blessed be that Maid Mary* 1:25
32. Anon., ca 1520-30: Sir Christemas* 2:53
33. Anon.C15, arr. M.Praetorius.: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming* 2:22
34. Anon.: The Twelve Days of Christmas* 2:41
35. Johann Georg Ebeling: All My Heart This Night Rejoices* 2:40
36. Anon., traditional, Czech: The Birds* 1:06
37. Anon. Trad., England: Wassail Song* (counter-tenor version) 1:30
38. Anon., traditional, England (west country): A Merry Christmas* 1:37