The album also includes an instrumental version of one of my favorite Christmas songs, the sweet, tender and oh-so-human lullaby, “Josef Lieber Joseh Mein,” as Mary asks her husband to help ...

Before Santa Claus there was the mythical figure of Sir Christmas, who brought tidings of comfort and joy to medieval England. News you can trust since 1887. Sign In. Subscribe.

The music is from the Musicada Camera CD, NatusEst, Centaur CRC 2208 and the Boston Camerata CD, A Medieval Christmas, Elektra Nonesuch 9 71315-2.

“Tydings Trew: Feasts of Christmas in Medieval England” has become the most popular of them, partly because this finely polished vocal sextet has recorded the music its “Tydings Trew” CD ...