Noël - Carols & Chants for Christmas (Anonymous 4) [2005]

Disc: 1 - Legends of St. Nicholas, Medieval European Chant and Polyphony

1. Intonent Hodie
2. Exultemus Et Letemur
3. Gaudens In Domino
4. Seint Nicholas Was Borne In The Citee Of Patras
5. Confessor Dei Nicholaus
6. Cantu Mirro, Summa Laude
7. Sainte Nicholaes
8. Whanne The Bisshop Of The Citee Of My Deied
9. Nicholai Presulis
10. Cum Quidam Fluctuantia
11. Novus Presul Prodiit
12. Sainte Nicholaes
13. All The Province Of Seint Nicholas Suffered Gret Peyne For Hunger
14. Plaudat Letitia
15. Salve Cleri Speculum/Salve Iubar Presulum/(Sospitati)/(Sospitati)
16. Sainte Nicholaes
17. A Worschipfull Man Hadde Thre Doughtres Virgines
18. Fulget Nicolaus
19. Ex Eius Tumba/Prosa Sospitati Dedit Egros
20. Gaudens In Domino
21. And Whanne Our Lorde Lust To Take Seint Nicholas Oute Of This Worlde
22. Psallat Chorus/Eximie Pater/(Aptatur)
23. Nicholae Presulum
24. Nicholaus Pontifex

Disc: 2 - Wolcum Yule, Celtic and British Songs and Carols

1. Awake, And Join The Cheerful Choir
2. Good People All
3. The Seven Rejoices Of Mary
4. The Lamb
5. A Scots Lilt
6. Balulalow
7. Balulalow
8. The Holly And The Ivy
9. The Reel Of Tullochgorum
10. I Saw Three Ships
11. A Calendar Of Kings
12. Air: La Fuar Geimhreadh
13. An Teicheadh Go Heigipt (Flight Into Egypt)
14. A God, And Yet A Man?
15. Grene Growith The Holy
16. Wel, Dyma'r Borau Gorau (Behold, Here Is The Best Morning)
17. The Cherry Tree Carol
18. Can Wassel (Wassail Song)
19. A New Year Carol

Disc: 3 - On Yoolis Night, Medieval Carols and Motets

1. Hodie Christus Natus Est
2. O Nobilis Nativitas/O Mira Dei/O Decus Virgineum/Apparuit
3. Lux De Luce (Chant)
4. Alleluya: A Nywe Werke
5. Verbum Supernum Prodiens (Chant)
6. Balaam De Quo Vaticinans/(Ballam)
7. Ave Maria
8. Gabriel, Fram Heven-King
9. Lulla: I Saw A Swete Semly Syght
10. Prolis Eterne Genitor/Psallat Mater Gracie/(Pes)
11. Vox Claral, ,Ecce, Intonat (Chant)
12. De Supernis Sedibus
13. Omnes De Saba
14. Puellare Gremium/Purissima Mater/(Pes)
15. Lullay, Lullay: As I Lay On Yoolis Night
16. Tria Sunt Munera (Chant)
17. Orto Sole Serene/Origo Viri/Virga Iesse/(Tenor)
18. Peperit Virgo
19. Ecce Quod Natura
20. A Solis Ortus Cardine (Chant)
21. Ther Is No Rose Of Swych Vertu
22. Videntes Stellam (Chant)
23. Nowel: Owt Of Your Slepe Aryse

Disc: 4 - A Star in the East, Medieval Hungarian Christmas Music

1. Ave Spes Nostra
2. Mi Atyank Atya Isten
3. Veni Domine
4. O Mundi Domina
5. Fuit Virgo
6. Vox Clara, Ecce, Intonat
7. Omnes Unanimter
8. Dum Medium Silentium
9. Primo Tempora Alleviata
10. Speciosus Forma
11. Novum Decus Oritur
12. Letentur Celi
13. Salvator Noster
14. Az Idvozitot Regenten
15. Novus Annus Adiit
16. Exulta Filia Syon
17. Liber Generationis
18. Gaude Et Letare
19. Exordium Quadruplate/Nate Dei/Concrepet Infanti/ Verbum Caro
20. Isten, Teged

Anonymous 4:
Ruth Cunningham,  Susan Hellauer,  Marsha Genensky,  Johanna Rose, Jacqeline Horner
With
Andrew Lawrence-King – irish harp, baroque harp, psaltery

Anonymous 4, the a cappella women's vocal quartet, has recorded a number of albums of sacred music for the Christmas season, and this set is a reissue of four of the most popular -- Legends of St. Nicholas: Medieval European Chant and Polyphony, Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols, On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols and Motets, and A Star in the East: Medieval Hungarian Christmas Music.

The pieces span the twelfth to the twenty first centuries, but the collection is heavily weighted with works from the Medieval and Renaissance eras. The performances encompass unison unaccompanied chant, solos, four-part carols, and songs accompanied by harp and psaltery. Anonymous 4 sings with absolute clarity of tone, flawless intonation, and a remarkably pure vocal blend. It performs this largely obscure repertoire with passionate commitment. In the Celtic and British songs and carols, Andrew Lawrence-King gracefully accompanies the group on Irish and Baroque harps and psaltery.

The set contains a sumptuously produced booklet that includes the texts with English and French translations, insightful essays by singers Susan Hellauer and Johanna Rose, lists of the sources of the music, and gorgeous full-color reproductions of Medieval and Renaissance illuminations. The sound quality is for the most part excellent, resonant without being boomy, except that the CD of Hungarian music has a very low-level rumble that could be heard either as an evocation of the ambience of the large spaces in which this music would have first been sung or simply as a minor distraction. ---Stephen Eddins, Rovi

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