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Choral Christmas: Rewind 800 years

Posted: December 11th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Music | Tags: | 1 Comment »

At 9am GMT on each day of Advent, I’ll be posting a YouTube video of a piece which, in my opinion, celebrates the best of music made by the human voice. You can access the full Choral Christmas here.

Perotin: Beata Viscera performed by the Hilliard Ensemble

Early choral music is my passion, and we rewind around eight hundred years here. If you would like to know more about the piece there is an excellent blog post here (opens in new window / tab).

This piece is, as much as anything else, an adoration of motherhood and birth which carry strong biblical Christmas overtones.

I can’t find a publicly available score for this, let me know in the comments if you can!

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  1. 1 Robin Fenwick » Choral Christmas revisited. Or “niche blogging, is it worth it?” said at 11:52 am on December 29th, 2010:

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