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resonantOld Christmas is past.
Twelfth Night is the last.
And we bid you adieu;
great joy to the new.
The whole batch in a .zip file, 41 MB.
For the rest of the Twelve Days:
Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, The World Is Turned Upside Down, from "Hang Up Sorrow and Care." Soloist with band. Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas in 1657; Charles II reinstated it in 1660. This song comes from the period in between. Command is given and we must obey, and quite forget old Christmas day. Kill a thousand men, or a town regain, we will give thanks and praise, amen.
Baltimore Consort, Hey for Christmas, from "Bright Day Star." Female soloist with Renaissance-flavored band. A rout from the seventeenth century; it starts out as a Christmas party and ends with weapons, bankruptcy, and mud.
For St. Stephen's Day (December 26):
Christmas Revels, Please To See the King, from "Christmas Day in the Morning." Mixed choir. The serious approach to the hunting of the wren.
June Tabor, Hunting the Cutty Wren, from "Always." Acoustic folk. The lighter side. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theamusedone.
Elvis Costello and the Chieftains, The St. Stephen's Day Murders, from "The Bells of Dublin." There's nobody like Elvis for making people look like meat and meat look like poison.
For Holy Innocents Day (December 28):
The Voice Squad, The Coventry Carol, from "Hollywood." Male choir, a capella. You don't often hear this one done by men. Thanks toemelerin.
James Taylor, Home By Another Way, from "Never Die Young." Laid-back white-guy folk-rock. Not strictly seasonal, of course, but heavily Herod-related.
For New Year's Day:
Revels, The Old Year Now Away Is Fled, from "Rose and Thistle." Duet with band. Most of the versions of this I've heard have used "Greensleeves." This is a slightly different tune.
Anonymous 4, New Year Carol, from "Wolcom Yule." Female choir, a capella. A Benjamin Britten setting of an anonymous poem. I'd like it better if it had a more ballad-style tune, instead of one so obviously modern, but the lyrics are beautiful. Sing reign of fair maid with gold upon her chin. Open you the east door and let the new year in. Thanks toceceliaregent.
For Epiphany:
Kathy Mattea, Brightest and Best from "Christmas Compilation" and given to me byqe2. I gave you a more classical version of this song a while back; this is a country version, and very lovely.
Robert Shaw Chorale, March of the Kings from "Songs of Angels." Traditional mixed choir. You probably already know the tune. In our house the traditional lyrics are: Mew, mew, mew. The cats are coming through.
Jethro Tull, We Five Kings from "Christmas Album." Instrumental. They already proved to us that they could do five-four time (with "Living in the Past") but this proves it again. Thanks tobarcley.
That's it for this year. Hope you enjoyed them!
Twelfth Night is the last.
And we bid you adieu;
great joy to the new.
The whole batch in a .zip file, 41 MB.
For the rest of the Twelve Days:
Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band, The World Is Turned Upside Down, from "Hang Up Sorrow and Care." Soloist with band. Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas in 1657; Charles II reinstated it in 1660. This song comes from the period in between. Command is given and we must obey, and quite forget old Christmas day. Kill a thousand men, or a town regain, we will give thanks and praise, amen.
Baltimore Consort, Hey for Christmas, from "Bright Day Star." Female soloist with Renaissance-flavored band. A rout from the seventeenth century; it starts out as a Christmas party and ends with weapons, bankruptcy, and mud.
For St. Stephen's Day (December 26):
Christmas Revels, Please To See the King, from "Christmas Day in the Morning." Mixed choir. The serious approach to the hunting of the wren.
June Tabor, Hunting the Cutty Wren, from "Always." Acoustic folk. The lighter side. Thanks to
theamusedone.Elvis Costello and the Chieftains, The St. Stephen's Day Murders, from "The Bells of Dublin." There's nobody like Elvis for making people look like meat and meat look like poison.
For Holy Innocents Day (December 28):
The Voice Squad, The Coventry Carol, from "Hollywood." Male choir, a capella. You don't often hear this one done by men. Thanks to
emelerin.James Taylor, Home By Another Way, from "Never Die Young." Laid-back white-guy folk-rock. Not strictly seasonal, of course, but heavily Herod-related.
For New Year's Day:
Revels, The Old Year Now Away Is Fled, from "Rose and Thistle." Duet with band. Most of the versions of this I've heard have used "Greensleeves." This is a slightly different tune.
Anonymous 4, New Year Carol, from "Wolcom Yule." Female choir, a capella. A Benjamin Britten setting of an anonymous poem. I'd like it better if it had a more ballad-style tune, instead of one so obviously modern, but the lyrics are beautiful. Sing reign of fair maid with gold upon her chin. Open you the east door and let the new year in. Thanks to
ceceliaregent.For Epiphany:
Kathy Mattea, Brightest and Best from "Christmas Compilation" and given to me by
qe2. I gave you a more classical version of this song a while back; this is a country version, and very lovely.Robert Shaw Chorale, March of the Kings from "Songs of Angels." Traditional mixed choir. You probably already know the tune. In our house the traditional lyrics are: Mew, mew, mew. The cats are coming through.
Jethro Tull, We Five Kings from "Christmas Album." Instrumental. They already proved to us that they could do five-four time (with "Living in the Past") but this proves it again. Thanks to
barcley.That's it for this year. Hope you enjoyed them!