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  1. My Little Sweet Darling
    An anonymous Tudor lullaby (sometimes attributed to William Byrd.)
    The song is found in multiple sources, and may originally have been sung in “A tragedy called Oedipus,” an Elizabethan translation of a Latin play by Seneca.

    Sam Brown: lute
    Eleanor Cramer: soprano

    youtube.com/watch?v=UW8pcxXAtq

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  2. 6 January is the feast of the #Epiphany, so here is Vidimus Stellam, an early #17thCentury #motet for the day by William #Byrd, from #Gradualia, 1607.

    Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
    Christopher Goodwin: #lute
    Alison Kinder: bass #viol
    Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol

    Vidimus stellam in Orientem, et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominum.
    We have seen a star in the East, and have come with gifts to adore the Lord.

    Image: Leonardo da Vinci - Adoration of the Magi, c1481 (Uffizi Galleries)

    youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS0w42S4

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