Testament: Archangels' Banquet & Shepherds' Delight | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Renaissance Players; Winsome Evans
Creators: Anonymous; Jon Bayl; John Bull; Winsome Evans; Marco Facoli; Thomas Morley; Traditional; American Traditional; Christmas Traditional; English Traditional; Greek Traditional; Spanish Traditional, N/a, The Renaissance Players
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Category: Music
List Price: $25.45
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 013711419726
EAN: 0013711419726
Release Date: November 21, 2000
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Archangels' Banquet: The Darkest Midnight | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Jon Bayl's Reel | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Gaudete! | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Pluckpayres' Gaudete Reel | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Away In A Manger | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Lamb Of God | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Lullay, Lulla, Thow Littel Tyne Child | | • | Archangels' Banquet: There Is No Rose | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Qui Creavit Coelum | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Nancie | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Lullay Myn Lykyng | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Mary Maiden | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Tedesca Dita La Proficia | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Bonny Pegge Of Ramsay | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Ye Sons Of Men | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Mother Hubbard's Whistle | | • | Archangels' Banquet: C'Est De Nos Moutons L'Allure, Mon Cousin | | • | Archangels' Banquet: Patapan |
Disc 2
| • | Shepherds' Delight: Nowell Chimes | | • | Shepherds' Delight: A Babe Is Born/Babe's Gig | | • | Shepherds' Delight: The Best Song | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Rorate Coeli | | • | Shepherds' Delight: In Dulci Jubilo | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Harry's Shepherd Dances | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Dance Of Zalongou | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Ching-A-Ring | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Virgin Mary Meek And Mild | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Job/Job's Gig | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day/Jesus' Disco Caper | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Gabriel's Salutation | | • | Shepherds' Delight: The Saviour's Birth | | • | Shepherds' Delight: Violetta's Last Tango | | • | Shepherds' Delight: De Las Montanas Venimos |
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Album Description
The music on these two compact disks is concerned with connective aspects of angels (the celestial), shepherds (the terrestrial), and dancing circles (in the structures and arrangements of music and poetry, in dance formations, and so on) in an attempt to attain, in sound, Plato's "full bloom of joyfulness", as a formal declaration of the divine inspiration with which God has blessed our creative efforts. Many of the 33 tracks, but by no means all, refer specifically or obliquely to the angelically announced birth of Jesus Christ, divine prophet/son of God made man. What they all share is a structural reference to the circle—the magical/mystical formulation for celestial and terrestrial dance, the halo, the garland, the manifestation of God, the wheel (in the hierarchical order of divine beings), and so on. These circular manfestation are therefore metaphors for the divine inspiration to which this collection attests. This is thus a testament, a solemn declaration, of the indebtedness of shepherds to archangels, God's messengers and bearers of creative gifts, metamorphosed as a balanced, spiritual blend of the sacred and the secular, the religious and the proface, via game playing, convivial hospitality, and zig-zagging connections of opposites and likes. It has been important to us in 2000 to offer this testament as an affirmation of hope, for we have lived in what Robert Manne (Professor of Politics, Latrobe University, Melbourne) describes as "The most politically barbarous century of which history has record, (even though) it has been a time of unparalleled scientific, technological and economic accomplishment, where millions of humans, at least in the most prosperous parts of the world, came to live at a level of material comfort beyond the dreams of kings in previous times." Testament is a small gesture against scientific, technological and economic "advances" as a reminder of what the human imagination has been able to accomplish in the past and continues to do so untrammelled by "advances" in a simple creative environment of hope and belief.
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