To Shorten Winter's Sadness

Tracks:

• 1 Christmas Cheer - Chestnut - Tidings Of Comfort And Joy
• 2 Michael East: Farewell Sweet Woods
• 3 Thomas Campion: Now Winter Nights Enlarge
• 4 Thomas Ravenscroft: Remember O Thou Man
• 5 Ceremonies For Christmas Eve
• 6 Orlando Gibbons: As On The Night
• 7 Dialogue Between the Angel & Shepherds
• 8 Martin Peerson: Upon My Lap
• 9 Come Follow Me
• 10 Henry Lawes: A Glee At Christmas
• 11 Coventry Carol
• 12 Thomas Weelkes: To Shorten Winter's Sadness
• 13 Beat Up A Drum
• 14 Anthony Holborne: The New-yeeres Gift
• 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 William Byrd: Vidimus Stellam
• 19 Christmas Has Made An End
• 20 In The Fields In Frost & Snow
• 21 On The Cold Ground
• 22 When Nights Are Cold & Frozen - The Frost Is Over Now

Performers:

• Passamezzo

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• Eleanor Cramer - Soprano, Bass Viol
• Christopher Goodwin - Lute, Theorbo, Gittern, Bass
• Alison Kinder - Viols, Recorders, Alto
• Tamsin Lewis - Renaissance Violin, Viols, Alto
• Jack Merivale - Baritone, Drum

Sheet music for most of the music on this cd is available