John Attey: Sweet was the song the Virgin sang

from Old Christmas Returned by Passamezzo

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Christmas madrigal by John Attey

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Sweet was the song the Virgin sang when she to Bethlem was come,
And was delivered of her son who blessed Jesu had to name.
“Lullaby, sweet babe,” quoth she, “my son, and eke a Saviour born,
Who hath vouchsafed from on high to visit us that were forlorn,
Lullaby, sweet babe,” sang she, and sweetly rockt him on her knee.
John Attey: First book of Ayres, 1622

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from Old Christmas Returned, released March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cramer: Soprano
Robin Jeffrey: Tenor
Tamsin Lewis: Alto
Peter Wilcock: Bass

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Passamezzo London, UK

London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire.

Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizabethan, Tudors, Stuarts

Part of the intercultural project 'Shore to Shore', working with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador.
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