Old Christmas Returned

Music, Words and Song for Christmas. Carols, ballads, consort music, lutesongs, dance melodies and readings. A seasonal programme showing how Christmas was celebrated, banned and restored in 17th Century England.

Includes music by Attey, Byrd, Bull, Dowland, Gibbons and Purcell.
Performed by Passamezzo.

Eleanor Cramer: Soprano, Viols.
Alison Kinder: Viols, Recorders.
Robin Jeffrey: Lute, Renaissance Guitar.
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance Violin, Viols, Alto.
Michael Palmer: Actor, Baritone.