Deo gracias Anglia!
Medieval English Carols · The Trinity Carol Roll
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2012
Obsidian CD709

1-3 September 2011
Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

The Trinity Carol Roll (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.3.58) is the earliest source for the English polyphony carol. The thirteen works preserved in this manuscript include the patriotic 'Agincourt' carol, celebrating Henry V's victory over the French in 1415, and the most famous of all early English carols 'Ther is no rose'. The performances on this recording offer a fresh take on medieval instrumentation, and include the gothic harp, psaltery, plectrum lute, recorder and the etherial gemshorn, while the recording itself took place in the Wren Library in Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Trinity Carol Roll (nos. 1-7)

1 - Hail Marye ful of grace   [4:53]
2 - Nowel, nowel, nowel   [3:21]
3 - Alma redemptoris mater   [4:51]
4 - Now may we syngyn   [3:59]
5 - Be mery, be mery   [2:13]
6 - Nowel syng we   [2:40]
7 - Deo gracias Anglia   [4:31]



8 - Nowel, nowel   [1:40]
9 - Lullay, lullay   [6:41]
10 - Princeps pacis   [2:53]
11 - Nova, nova   [2:44]
12 - Tibi laus, tibi gloria   [3:25]



The Trinity Carol Roll (nos. 8-13)

13 - Now make we merthe   [3:25]
14 - Abyde I hope it be the beste   [3:30]
15 - Qwat tydynges bryngyst thu messager   [3:52]
16 - Eya martir Stephane   [2:10]
17 - Prey for us the prynce of pees   [3:10]
18 - Ther is no rose of swych vertu   [5:11]











Alamire
David Skinner

Grace Davidson · soprano
Clare Wilkinson · contralto
Nicholas Todd · tenor
Simon Wall · tenor
Andrew Lawrence-King · gothic harp, psaltery
Michael Grébil · plectrum lute
Pamela Thorby · recorder, gemshorn











Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge