The York Waits / Yule Riding

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Yule Riding (Beautiful Jo)

A celebration of a traditional holiday from York, England in the years before 1570. With instruments that include shawms, sackbut, recorders, flute, harp, lute, guitar, cittern and hurdy gurdy gurdy the album also features the wonderful vocals of soprano Deborah Catterall.

The new CD by the York Waits, Yule Riding, takes its name from a riotous Christmas celebration that took place in York before it was banned by a Puritan Archbishop in the 1570s. The recording begins dramatically with the ancient Yoole-girthol proclamation: Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! We command that the peace of our lady the Queen be well kept by night and day but that all manner of whores, thieves, dice players and other unthrifty folk be welcome to the city, whether they come late or early, at the reverence of the High Feast of Yule till the Twelve Days be past. God save the Queen!

The album then soon it sets off on a musical journey throughout renaissance Europe, from elaborate German settings of Christmas melodies to simple, affecting French Noels and songs from the Mediterranean. It nears its conclusion with a wistful English song that laments the end of the Twelve Days - and thus the beginning of the working year. The next Yule Riding seems far, far away

TRACKS:

1 Yule Horn and Yoole-girthol proclamation
2 Proface! Welcome!
3 Gabriel, fram Heven King
4 As I rode out this enderes night
5 Lully, lulla thow little tyne child (The Coventry Carol)
6 Green groweth the Hollie
7 Parvulus nobis nascitur
8 Ic hoerde de clockskins luden
9 Joseph, lieber
10 Christum wir sollen
11 In dulci jubilo
12 En! Natus est Emanuel
13 Psallite Unigenito
14 O Heyligh saligh Bethlehem
15 Le triste etat de cette pauvre etable
16 Picardy
17 Chantons je vous en prie
18 El Noi de la mare
19 El desembre congelat
20 Verbum caro factum est
21 Quando nascette Ninno
22 Chestnut
23 Hollis Berrie
24 Now Winter Nights Enlarge
25 Christemas hath made an end
26 Gaudete, Christus est natus

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