If for any reason you have trouble gaining access to the recording of "Sumer is icumen in" on the Broadview Anthology website, you should be able to launch a recording of it here. This page is maintained by Elly van Gelderen and can also be reached (more circuitously) via her History of English website, which offers a lot more information and many more links.
The recording on this site begins with the Latin lyrics "Perspice christicola" (the latter word is abbreviated xpicola in the manuscript, using "x" and "p" to represent the chi and rho from the Greek spelling of christos); then it shifts into the Middle English lyrics that are more familiar today.
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