Medieval Christmas celebrations encompassed several feasts, including Circumcision & Epiphany. The Orlando Consort offers an unusual collection of carols ranging from devotional to boisterous, drawn from a 500-year span of secular and liturgical music from England, France and the Low Countries. 'There could be no better antidote to a seasonal surfeit of over-familiar carols than this sequence of pieces ranging from austere 10th-century organum to joyously pealing 16th-century noels.' Elizabeth Roche, The Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2006. 'motets and noels, superbly sung' Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times, 17 December 2006. 'The Orlando Consort mix excellent performances that are delicate and intimate with others that are vibrant and exciting." Helen Deeming, Early Music Today, December 2006/January 2007. 'Beautifully controlled singing from the intimate Orlando Consort, unaccompanied save for the odd drum…Listen with a warming drink.' Geoff Brown, The Times, 1 December 2006. TRACKS: Winchester Troper : Prophecy - Christe redemptor / Quem Iohannes / Alleluia V Dies sanctificatus. Aquitanian : O primus homo corruit / Lux refulget. Anonymous : New Year's Day - Annus renascitur / De quan qu'on peut. Tout mon desir (Arnold de Lantins). Ce jour de l'an (Guillaume Dufay). The Carol - Clangat tuba / Ave rex angelorum / Eya martyr Stephane (Anon). Nattative Motets - Vox in Rama (Clemens non Papa). Lullay lullow I saw a swete semely sight (Anon). O admirabile commercium (Loyset Compere). Pastores loquebantur (Clemens non Papa). Noel - Noel Noel Noel (Antoine Busnois). Noe noe noe. Nato canunt omnia (Antoine Brumel).