An arrangement featuring the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, accompanied by a cello ensemble, descant recorder and medieval tabor under the direction of Geoffrey Simon, was recorded in 1996 for a CD entitled A Cello Christmas on the Cala Records label.The Boston Camerata, under the direction of Joel Cohen, recorded a version of "Gaudete" entitled "Gaudete, Gaudete" for the Dec 1985 album A Renaissance Christmas.British vocal ensemble King's Singers recorded "Gaudete" for their 1990 A Little Christmas Music album.Boy soprano solo vocals were provided by Niko Haukkala of the choir Cantores Minores. Pertti Neumann, a Finnish singer-songwriter and frontman of the 1980s pop-rock group Dingo recorded a version of "Gaudete" for his first solo album Albion, released in 1986.(Other notable examples are " Only You" and the title music to the television adaptation of Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue sung by the Flying Pickets, " After the Gold Rush", sung by Prelude, " Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin and " Caravan of Love", sung by the Housemartins.) When "Gaudete" was performed on Top of the Pops, the resident dance troupe walked onto the set in medieval-style robes, holding candles, followed by the members of Steeleye Span. "Gaudete" is also one of only a handful of a cappella performances to become hit singles. "Oh What a Circus" from the 1976 musical Evita, and a hit single performed by David Essex, includes a choral chant in Latin, based on the Catholic anthem " Salve Regina". In 1975 Mike Oldfield had a top 10 hit with " In Dulci Jubilo" but this Latin song was performed as an instrumental. (Unlike the album version which fades up slowly and fades down slowly, the single was at the same volume for the entire length of the song.) This single is one of only three top 50 British hits to be sung fully in Latin (the others were both recordings of "Pie Jesu" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem firstly by Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston in 1986, secondly as a minor hit by the 12-year-old Charlotte Church in 1998). Guitarist Bob Johnson had heard the song when he attended a folk-carol service with his father-in-law in Cambridge, and brought it to the attention of the rest of the band. 14, UK singles chart) with an a cappella recording of the song. British folk rock group Steeleye Span had a hit in 1973 (No.audio clip is from no.The complete text of " Gaudete", including the refrain: Significant historical and performance information is included in each octavo.Īudio samples from ''On Yoolis Night'' used by arrangement with harmonia mundi usa, CD HMU 907099. 2: ther is no rose of swych vertu(S-132b) no. 1: hodie christus natus est / a nywe werk(S-132a) no. On Yoolis Night is published in three separate octavos: no. The number of these pieces is so large that it sometimes seems as if the British invented the celebration of Christmas.
It is familiar to modern ears as the opening of Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols.ĭuring the high Middle Ages (the twelfth through fourteenth centuries), poets and musicians of the British Isles produced a vast array of songs, ballads, carols, and liturgical works on the topics of the incarnation and the virgin birth. This plainchant Magnificat antiphon for Second Vespers of Christmas Day is taken from a British collection of chants for the Divine Office (the daily round of eight services of psalms and prayers).
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