To Shorten Winter's Sadness - Music, words and song for Christmas and winter

To Shorten Winter's Sadness: 16th and 17th Century words, music and song for winter and Christmas. Ballads, lutesongs, carols, consort music, madrigals and readings. Performed in Elizabethan costume.

Upon my lap my saviour sits

Martin Peerson (c1572-c1651)

To shorten Winter's sadness

Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)

Farewell, sweet woods and mountains

Michael East (c1580-1648)

The Queene’s New-yeeres gift

Tobias Hume (?c1569-1645)

The frost is over now

Anonymous ()

Hollis Berrie

Anonymous ()

Remember, O thou man

Thomas Ravenscroft (1582-1633)

Dialogue between the Angel and Shepherds

Anonymous ()

A Song of Joy

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Beat up a drum for Christmas reigns

Anonymous ()

Now Winter Nights Enlarge

Thomas Campion (1567-1620)

As I outrode this enderes night

Anonymous ()

In the fields in frost and snow

Anonymous ()

Coventry Carol

Anonymous ()

Vidimus stellam

William Byrd (1543-1623)

Mr Dowland's Midnight

John Dowland (c1563-1626)

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