for sundry seasons by Peter Crossley-Holland
Out of your sleep arise and wake (Nativity): A boy was born in Bethlehem (Nativity): In this time God hath sent (Nativity): Lift up your heartes and be glad (New Year); Love is come again (Easter); Hey. hey. take good heedg what you say (Doomsday) sung by the BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
(first performance)
These carols are (with one exception) settings of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poems. Although the style of the music belongs to our day, the form of the carols is derived from medieval and pagan examples in which stanzas and refrains (or burdens) alternate, sung by solo voices and chorus respectively.