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Renaissance
Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis (John Wilbye)
Agnus Dei (Thomas Morley)
Alleluia (William Boyce/arr. Theron Kirk)
Amor Vittorioso [Come with Your Weapons Ready](Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi)
April is in My Mistress Face (Thomas Morley)
Ave Verum Corpus (William Byrd)
Bonjour, Mon Coeur [Good-day, Dear Heart](Orlando di Lasso)
Can’t Buy Me Love (Lennon / McCartney, arr. by Keith Abbs)
Ce Moys de May [This Month of May] (Clément Jannequin)
Come Away Sweet Love (Thomas Greaves)
Come Ye Now (Luca Marenzio)
Farewell Dear Love (Robert Jones)
Fa Una Canzone (Orazio Vecchi)
Fire, Fire My Heart (Thomas Morley)
Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers (John Wilbye)
Greensleeves (Alice Parker / Robert Shaw)
Hard by a Fountain (Hubert Waelrant)
Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints Above (Thomas Weelkes)
Il est Bel et Bon [He is Handsome and Good] (Passereau)
I Love, Alas, I Love Thee (Thomas Morley)
I Love You my Beauty [Je T'ayme Ma Belle] (Guillaume Costeley)
Innsbruck, Ich Muss Dich Lassen [Innsbruck, I Must Leave You] (Heinrich Isaac)
In These Delightful Pleasant Groves (Henry Purcell)
It Was a Lover and His Lass (Thomas Morley)
Lasciatemi Morire [Leave Me Here that I may Die] (Claudio Monteverdi)
Matona, Mia Cara [Matona, Lovely Maiden] (Orlando di Lasso)
Mon Coeur se Recommande a Vous [My Heart Doth Beg You'll not Forget] (Orlando di Lasso)
Mother, I Will Have a Husband (Thomas Vautor)
My Bonny Lass (Thomas Morley )
My Heart Seemed As Though Dying [Mori Quasi il Mio Core] (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Now Is the Month of Maying (Thomas Morley )
Now, O Now I Needs Must Part (John Dowland)
Nun bin Ich Einmal Frei [Free I am Once Again] (Jacob Regnart)
O Eyes of My Beloved (Orlando di Lasso )
O Magnum Mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Pastime in Good Company (Henry VIII)
Psallite [Sing Your Psalms] (Michael Praetorius)
Rest Sweet Nymphs (Francis Pilkington)
Silver Swan, The (Orlando Gibbons)
Since First I Saw Your Face (Thomas Ford)
Sing We and Chant It (Thomas Morley)
Sing We At Pleasure (Thomas Weelkes)
So Ben Me Ch’à Bon Tempo [So Well I Know Who's Happy] (Orazio Vecchi)
Summer is A-comin’ In (13th Century English Round)
Sweet and Charming Nymphs [Vezzosette Ninfe] (Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi)
Thou Knowest, Lord (Henry Purcell)
Though Amaryllis Dance (William Byrd)
Though Philomela Lost Her Love (Thomas Morley)
Thus Sings My Dearest Jewel (Thomas Weelkes)
To Woodland Glades (Charles Tessier)
Weep, I Weep [Io Piango] (Luca Marenzio)
Weep, O Mine Eyes (John Bennett)
When I Gaze on Thy Lips of Roses [Si Dessus Voz Levres De Roses] (Claude Le Jeune)
...and many more!
Holiday
All My Heart This Night Rejoices (Johann Georg Ebeling)
All This Time (William Walton) {Words: Early English Carol}
Angels We have Heard on High
As I Out Rode this Enderes Night {The Coventry Shepherd’s Carol – 16th Century}
As Joseph was A-walking (Rimbault/ Arr. Robin Wells) {Old English}
As Lately We Watched (arr. Charles Black) {Austrian Folk Song}
Away in a Manger
Can’t Buy Me Love
Carol of the Bells (M. Leontovich / Peter J. Wilhousky) {Ukrainian}
Caroling, Caroling (Alfred Burt)
Christmas is Coming (Walford Davies)
Coventry Carol
Cradle-Song of the Shepherds (Glatz folk song)
Deck the Hall (David Willcocks) {Welsh Traditional Carol}
Ding Dong Merrily on High (har. Charles Wood) {16th century French}
Dixit Maria ad Angelum (Hans Leo Hassler)
Es ist ein Ros [Lo How a Rose] (Michael Praetorius)
The First Noel
Fum, Fum, Fum (Alice Parker / Robert Shaw) {Traditional Catalan Carol
Gaudete Christus est natus
Gloucestershire Wassail (arr. R. Vaughan Williams) {English Traditional Carol}
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (, arr. Sir John Stainer) {English Traditional Carol}
Good Christian Men, Rejoice {German Traditional Carol)
Good King Wenceslas (arr. John Stainer) {Traditional}
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing (F. Mendelssohn)
Heaven and Earth are Ringing (Giovanni Gastoldi / Hal H. Hopson)
Here We Come a-Caroling {Traditional English Wassail Song}
The Holly and the Ivy (arr. Reginald Jacques) {English Traditional Carol}
In the Bleak Midwinter (Gustav Holst / Christina Rossetti)
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Richard Storrs Willis, 1850)
Jingle Bells (J. Pierpont)
Joy to the World (George Frederick Handel - 1742, arr. Lowell Mason - 1830)
Let All the Earth be Joyful (Orazio Vecci/ arr. Hal H. Hopson)
Little Drummer Boy, The (Harry Simeone / Katherine K. Davis / Henry Onorati)
Love Came Down at Christmas {Traditional Irish Air}
Lullay my Liking (Gustav Holst) {Words: "A Medieval Anthology"}
Lute-Book Lullaby (W. Ballet / Geoffrey Shaw)
Merry Christmas, A (Arthur Warrell) {English West Country Carol}
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come O Come Emmanuel
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. R. Vaughan Williams) {English Traditional Tune}
O Magnum Mysterium (Tomas Luis de Victoria)
Once in Royal David’s City (Henry J. Guantlett)
Psallite [Sing Your Psalms]
Rejoice and Be Merry {English Traditional Carol}
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (arr. Drew Carlson)
Saw You Never in the Twilight (har. Charles Wood) {15th century French}
Silent Night (Franz Grüber – 1818)
Slumber Song of the Infant Jesus (F.A. Gevaert) {From his “Collection de Choeurs”}
Softly the Stars were Shining (Adolf Torovsky)
Upon my Lap my Sov'reign Sits (Martin Peerson)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas: See Merry Christmas, A
What Cheer? (William Walton / Richard Hill) {From Hill's "Commonplace Book"}
What Child is This (Alice Parker / Robert Shaw / W.C. Dix)
Winter Wonderland (arr. Bill Warren)
Zither Carol (Malcolm Sargent) {Czech Folk Tune}
...and many other traditional songs and holiday favorites!
Beyond Renaissance
Alleluia (Randall Thompson)
Ave Maria (Wolfgang A. Mozart)
Bells of St. Mary's, The (D. Furber / A. Emmett / James T. Moran)
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (Virgil Thomson)
Sing Me to Heaven (Daniel E. Gawthrop)
Promised Land, The (Samuel Stennett / M. Durham / J. Michael Compton)
Puisque Tout Passe [Since All is Passing] (Paul Hindemith / Rainer Maria Rilke / Elaine de Sinçay)
Rejoice, Ye Shining Worlds on High (William Billings / Isaac Watts / Leonard van Camp)
Ubi Caritas (Maurice Duruflé)
...with many more to come!