The Westminster-based vocal consort Floreat takes us on a journey from the birth of Christ to the Presentation at the Temple 40 days later, celebrating the feasts that fall between the two.
- Byrd – Vigilate (Advent)
- Victoria – O magnum mysterium (Christmas)
- Praetorius – Magnificat quinti toni, with Christmas interpolations
- Tomkins – Stephen being full of the Holy Ghost (St Stephen, 26 December)
- Philips – Iste est Joannes (St John, 27 December)
- Coventry Carol (Holy Innocents, 28 December)
- Hooper – Almighty God, which madest (Circumcision, 1 January)
- Poulenc – Videntes stellam (Epiphany, 6 January)
- Philips – Tu es vas electionis (Conversion of St Paul, 25 January)
- Byrd – Senex populum portabat (Candlemas, 2 February)
- Holst – Nunc dimittis (Candlemas)
FLOREAT
Gilly French, Helen Prentice, Catharine Robertson, Robert Harvey Wood, Jonathan Bull, Manvinder Rattan, Iain Butler, Willow Northeald with Matthew Blaiden (organ)
