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Subject: Re: Christmas Music - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 21-Dec-83 22:49:29 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Dec 20 11:15:00 1983

By all means look into

	*Christemas In Anglia*, The Early Music Ensemble, on Nonesuch
	*English Medieval Carols and Christmas Music*,
		The New York Pro Musica, on Everest (it suffers from
		the technology of the time it was recorded, but the
		"Alma Redemptoris Mater" and "Ave Maria" on side one
		alone are sufficiently glorious to be worth it)
	*The Christmas Story*, The Waverly Consort, on Columbia

There's another Nonesuch early Christmas music album that is out and is
very good (their version of "Orientis Partibus" sounds like the asinus
is stomping determinedly across Palestine, and you'd better not get in
its way) but I don't recall title or artists--maybe *A Medieval
Christmas*? It's particularly interesting for its readings in Hebrew
and in Saxon.

				Let's hear from you pre-1650 music fans,
				James Jones