Four Traditional Christmas Carols
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Eight, Vol. 5
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Silent Night
Joy to the World
Allon gay, gay Bergères ~ Guillaume Costeley
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Four, Vol. 10
Let’s go gaily, Shepherdesses,
Let’s go gaily, be light, follow me.
Let’s go see the King,
Who from heaven is born on Earth.
Let’s go gaily …
I’ll make him an attractive present, of what?
This tin whistle that I have, so gay.
Let’s go gaily …
I will give him a cake.
And me, I’ll offer him a full drinking cup.
Let’s go gaily …
Oh, oh, hush! I see him;
He’s nursing well, not with his thumb, the little King!
Let’s go gaily, Shepherdesses
Let us go gaily, be light, the King is drinking!
Videntes Stellam – Palestrina
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Four, Vol. 10
When they saw the Star, they rejoiced
and going into the house they found there
the boy with Mary, his mother
And prostrating themselves they worshipped Him
And opening their treasures, they offered Him gifts
Gold, Frankincense, and myrrh.
Remember O Thou Man-Thomas Ravenscroft
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Eight, Vol. 5
Tomás Luis de Victoria • Ne timeas Maria
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Eight, Vol. 1
Fear not, Mary, for you have found favor in the house of the Lord.
Behold, you shall conceive and bring forth a son,
and he shall be called Son of the most High.
Tomás Luis de Victoria • O Magnum Mysterium
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Eight, Vol. 4
that animals should see the new-born Lord,
lying in a manger.
Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy
To bear Jesus Christ the Lord.
Alleluia.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – First Responsory of Advent Sunday
I look from afar:
And lo, I see the power of God coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Go ye out to meet him and say:
Tell us, art thou he that should come to reign over thy people Israel?
High and low, rich and poor, one with another, Go ye out to meet him and say:
Hear, O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep:
Tell us, art thou he that should come? Stir up thy strength, O Lord, and come
To reign over thy people Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
I look from afar, and lo, I see the power of God coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Go ye out to meet him and say:
Tell us, art thou he that should come to reign over thy people Israel?
Josquin des Prez – Mittit ad virginum
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Eight, Vol. 5
The Lord of all mankind for love of mortal men
has to a Virgin sent an Archangel from heav’n
The mighty Gabriel…..
Surge Illuminare-Palestrina
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Choir
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Collection Eight, Vol. 5
for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
For darkness shall cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will arise upon you,
and his glory will appear over you.