A Minstrel's Christmas

from the rear card: 'Alfred Deller & Consort "Openly vivacious. this collection simulates a visiting village group with pleasing simplicity ...Many highlights from Deller himself, on magical for here" (Penguin Guide) [Time: 78:43] More info, all texts + personal printable www.altocd.com (see 1448) C14:(Instrumental) Alleluya psallat * C17 Patapan * Here we Come a-Wassailing London Wait: Past Three O'Clock * England: I Saw Three Ships England: * The Coventry Carol * Anon.C16: Good King Wenceslas (text:C19) * Austria: Silent Night Elizabethan:The Old New Year (Greensleeves) * Hymn: We Three Kings of Orient Are * trad: Down in Yon Forest * England: The First Nowell * Czech Carol: Rocking (Hajej, nynjej) * England: God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen * Dormi Jesu * C15: Boar's Head Carol * Medieval/Holst: Lullay My Liking * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * Germany 1647: Herrick's Carol * Once in Royal David's City medieval: The Holly and the Ivy * Germany: O Little One Sweet * (1425): Processional song of the Nuns of Chester * Anon.C16: Winter-Rose * Handel (attr.): Joy to the World * C14, arr.Bach: Carol: In Dulci Jubilo * old Welsh: Deck the Halls * Wm.Ballet's Lute-book Lullaby * Ye Shepherds leave * Old Besançon/ French: Carol: People Look East * Blessed be that Maid Mary * Anon.1520-30: Sir Christemas * C15 arr.Praetorius: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * Twelve Days of Christmas * Ebeling/German: All My Heart This Night Rejoices * Czech: The Birds England: Wassail Song (counter-tenor) * England: we Wish You A Merry Christmas'