The Schola Cantorum of The London Oratory School,
directed by Charles Cole,
sings a celebration of Christmas from the Nativity through to Candlemas,
in music from across sixteenth-century Europe:
Renaissance polyphony at its finest.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) : Hodie Christus natus est [3'52]
Giovanni Gabrieli (c1554/7-1612) : O magnum mysterium[4'34]
Anonymous : Alleluia. ‘Dies sanctificatus’ [2'24]
Hans Leo Hassler (1562-1612) : Verbum caro factum est [3'30]
Jean Mouton (before 1459-1522) : Nesciens mater [6'08]
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) : Puer natus in Bethlehem [2'23]
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599): Pastores loquebantur [4'02]
Orlando de Lassus (1530/32-1594) : Resonet in laudibus [4'36]
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) : O magnum mysterium [4'32];
Alma redemptoris mater [8'06]
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594) : Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem [2'57]
Orlando de Lassus : Omnes de Saba [3'03]
John Sheppard (c1515-1558) : Reges Tharsis et insulae [6'01]
Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c1510/15-1555/6) : Magi veniunt ab oriente [6'12]
Giovanni Maria Nanino (1543/4-1607) : Diffusa est gratia [2'41]
Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585) : Videte miraculum [11'23]
