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Christmas vespers
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Title
Christmas vespers [sound recording] / Heinrich Schütz.
Published
Hamburg : Archiv Produktion, p1999.
Physical Description
1 sound disc (79:51) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
"Christmas Vespers as it might have been celebrated at the court in Dresden, ca. 1664"--Container.
Pitch is A=432, temperament : unequal, 1/6 comma meantone.
The movements of the Magnificat are interspersed with 3 German Christmas hymns (Wir Christenleut habn itzund Freud ; Lobt Gott, ihr Christen all zugleich ; In dulci jubilo) performed by the boys' choir.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Robin A. Leaver & Paul McCreesh, notes on the organ with specifications, & vocal texts with English translations inserted in container.
Recorded in Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark, Dec. 1998 & May 1999.
Sung in Latin & German.
Variant and related titles
Piva.
Christum wir sollen loben schon.
Wir Christenleut habn itzund Freud.
Lobt Gott, ihr Christen all zugleich.
In dulci jubilo.
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ.
Format
Audio
Language
German; Latin
Added to Catalog
April 16, 2004
Performers
Boys' Choir & Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral, Kristian Olesen & Finn Evald, conductors (hymns) ; Kristian Olesen, organ ; Charles Daniels, tenor (Evangelist in SWV 435) ; Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh, conductor.
Contents
Prelude : La piva / anon. , Vatican MS Q IV 28 [organ] (1:51)
Chant : Deus in adjutorium (1:01)
Warum toben die Heiden : SWV 23 [Psalmen Davids, 2. Psalm] (3:54)
Hymn : Christum wir sollen loben schon [congregation with organ] (6:51)
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi : SWV 435 [opening chorus reconstructed by Timothy Roberts] (ca. 32 min.)
Magnificat : SWV 468 : with Christmas interpolations [3 hymns: Wir Christenleut habn itzund Freud ; Lobt Gott, ihr Christen all zugleich ; In dulci jubilo] (16 min.)
O bone Jesu, fili Mariae : SWV 471 (6:47)
Hymn: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ [congregation] withorgan] (4:35)
Collect and blessing (1:36)
Postlude : Benedicamus Domino à 6 (modus pleno organo pedaliter) [organ] / Scheidt (2:11).
Issue number
289 463 046-2 Archiv Produktion
Subjects
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Gabrieli Consort & Players.
Roskilde domkirke (Roskilde, Denmark). Drengekor.
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