Ther is no rose of swych vertu

from Christmas in Medieval England by Blue Heron

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This disc comes in an attractive 4-panel wallet-style format, with a CD sleeve. There is no plastic tray, which makes for a greener (and more lightweight) package. The CD allows listeners to share the beauty, excitement, intensity and variety found in a Blue Heron concert performance. It includes plainchant, carols, and other music for Advent and Christmas from 15th-century England. It is comprised entirely of tracks recorded live at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational in December 2013.

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lyrics

Ther is no rose of swych vertu (swych = such)
as is the rose that bare Jhesu.
Alleluya.

For in this rose conteynyd was
Heven and erthe in lytyl space,
res miranda. (a wonderful thing)

Be that rose we may weel see (Be = by means of)
that he is God in personys thre,
pari forma. (of the same form)

The aungelys sungyn the shepherdes to:
“Gloria in excelsis Deo!” (Glory to God in the highest!)
Gaudeamus. (Let us rejoice)

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from Christmas in Medieval England, released October 9, 2015
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Singers
Daniela Tosic, Michael Barrett, Paul Guttry
Harp
Scott Metcalfe

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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