Music for St. Stephen's Day this weekend, with carols and Christmas revels for "Wren Day" with The Renaissance Singers and The Chieftains. We'll hear music for Epiphany with Margaret Bonds' cantata, The Ballad of the Brown King; and traditional carols for chorus.
Show Notes
Benjamin Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin; The Sycamore Tree; The Holly and the Ivy; Sweet was the song the Virgin sung; A New Year Carol
- Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
- Tanya Houghton, harp
- Graham Ross, conductor
Giovanni Francesco Anerio: Voi ch'ai notturni rai (Shepherds, who by the light)
Traditional: Three Alpine Carols
John Henry Hopkins: We Three Kings
Plainchant (arr. Paul Hillier): Videntes stellam; Personent hodie
- Theatre of Voices
- Ars Nova Copenhagen
- Paul Hillier
Margaret Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King
- Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Lucia Branford, mezzo-soprano; Noah Stewart, tenor
- The Dessof Choirs & Orchestra
- Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
Traditional: Past Three O'Clock; Dublin Carol Medley; "The Wren! The Wren!" Medley; The Bells of Dublin Medley
- The Renaissance Singers; Kevin Coneff and The Voice Squad; Kathryn Tickell, Northumbrian Pipes; David Drinkel, organ
- The Chieftains; Paddy Moloney, director