From the recording Carols of Christmas
Lo How A Rose – 15th century German carol - 7th century words with an ancient melody harmonized in the early 1600s by Michael Praetorius. The German words are a paraphrase of the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, verse 1: “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.”
Michael Lawson, solo cello.