This is perhaps my favourite Christmas song – written by Michael Praetorius and arranged here by Jan Sandström
Early Music
A Calming Down After Yesterday
This is a text that has been set by many composers through the years – this is one of the older ones, sublimely sung by The Sixteen
An Even Older Carol
Again a very old carol – and once again there are many arrangements/versions/interpretations to choose from. All I can say is that this time Enya got my vote.
An Old Carol
Another old carol. Many years ago Steeleye Span released a single that rose up the charts – I’m sure many of you have heard their version of Gaudete. The B-side was this song, which I think is better!! Rather different compared to yesterday’s song.
Too Early For Christmas?
With Thanksgiving past I am going to move to “seasonal” music and we start with something soothing – as it is a Friday.
A Strangely Compelling Crossover
There is a wealth of Medieval and Renaissance music within the sacred music archives and today I link to an example of that from Spain.
Early Rock
This daily music post all started because I was challenged to post twenty album covers. I have included excerpts from most up until now – here is another one.
All Our Yesterdays
Both my previous “cover versions” this week have taken music and brought it “up to date” – today we go the other way. I have to say that until quite recently I didn’t know that this was “a thing” but it doesn’t take long n YouTube to find many medieval cover versions 😃 It seems that this has gained the name “Bardcore”!
Very Old Music
Apart from popular songs like I shared yesterday the King’s Singers also performed a huge range of “classical” music from all of the history of music. A Capella singing has been around a long time!! I particularly enjoyed many of their “early music” songs – but today’s offering would have been a bit beyond six of them. It is Thomas Tallis’ 40-part “Spem in alium”.
Music For Spy Wednesday
I am not intending this series to have much of a theme usually, but it seems right that over the next few days I post some music that fits in some way with Easter.