The programme consists of ballads, lute songs, carols, consort music, viol solos, madrigals and dance tunes. It follows the season from the coming of Winter to the melting of the ice, and shows the religious calendar from Advent to the beginning of Lent. It also describes many of the festive customs of the time including wassailing and New Year's gifts, with feasts and revels through the cold of winter, and fairs upon the frozen river.

1. Christmas Cheer Chestnut Tidings Of Comfort And Joy
2. Farewell Sweet Woods (Michael East)
3. Now Winter Nights Enlarge (Thomas Campion)
4. Remember O Thou Man (Thomas Ravenscroft)
5. Ceremonies For Christmas Eve
6. As On The Night (Orlando Gibbons)
7. Dialogue Betwen The Angel and Shepherds
8. Upon My Lap (Martin Peerson)
9. Come Follow Me
10. A Glee At Christmas (Henry Lawes)
11. Coventry Carol
12. To Shorten Winter's Sadness (Thomas Weelkes)
13. Beat Up A Drum
14. The New-Yeeres Gift (Anthony Holborne)
15. The Shepherd's Carol To Be Sung On New Year's Day
16. The Glory Of The Kitchen - Twelfth Eve
17. Wassailing Song
18. Vidimus Stellam (William Byrd)
19. Christmas Has Made An End
20. In The Fields In Frost and Snow
21. On The Cold Ground
22. When Nights Are Cold and Frozen The Frost Is Over Now

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 06/30/2015
Passamezzo lives in London England

Tagged as: Classical, Renaissance, Classical Singing, Christmas, Composer: Anthony Holborne, Composer: Orlando Gibbons, Composer: Thomas Campion, Composer: William Byrd, Lute, Recorder, Violin

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