Holiday music treasures all month long on Choral Showcase, beginning this week with music for St. Nicholas Day: a 12th-century medieval morality play, The Play of St. Nicholas, recounting one of many miracles attributed to Good St. Nick. We'll follow with Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, and several Christmas motets.
Show Notes
Anonymous: The Play of St. Nicholas: Filius Getronis (the Son of Getron)
- New York Ensemble for Early Music
- Frederick Renz, conductor
Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
- Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
- Tanya Houghton, harp
- Graham Ross, conductor
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
Giovanni Gabrieli: O magnum mysterium
Samuel Scheidt: Puer natus est Bethlehem
Orlando de Lassus: Resonet in laudibus
- The London Oratory Schola Cantorum
- Charles Cole, director