Music for Advent and Christmas

[Wakefield]

Baroque Christmas (Corelli, Torelli, Manfredini, Scarlatti, Buxtehude, Bernhard)
New Trinity Baroque
Kathryn Mueller, Wanda Yang Temko, soprans
Predrag Gosta, conductor



An excellent recital by an also excellent American HIP ensemble.   

http://www.newtrinitybaroque.org

"Atlanta's leading early music ensemble"

[Drosera]

This:

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Lovely work. (Although I can't vouch for this particular recording.)

And this:

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[HIPster]

Is anyone familiar with this recording, under the leadership of Jean Tubery?
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I also wonder if the music on that release, is - partial or whole - included as a part of this 3 CD collection:
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Anyone familiar with this set?

I think the "Boxing Day" is not a German secular celebration, but I could be wrong. Anyway, this day matches with the Christian feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

On the Second Day of Christmas, the Lutheran Church in Leipzig celebrated Christmas and St. Stephen's Day in alternating years, with different readings:

St. Stephen! 
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[Wakefield]

Is anyone familiar with this recording, under the leadership of Jean Tubery?
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I also wonder if the music on that release, is - partial or whole - included as a part of this 3 CD collection:
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Anyone familiar with this set?

Here is the content of that 3-CD set:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/A-Baroque-Christmas/hnum/3180240

As far I can see just part of the first CD is included there.

St. Stephen rocks out! 

[HIPster]

Here is the content of that 3-CD set:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/A-Baroque-Christmas/hnum/3180240

As far I can see just part of the first CD is included there.

On its own, that Tubery/Bach Cantata set probably makes a nice companion disc to the Ricercar Consort's forthcoming release.

Here's the amazon link to that one:
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Thanks Gordo, for alerting me to this release!  Their Bach: Magnificat release is getting a lot of "seasonal play" right now!  An excellent release:
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St. Stephen rocks out! 

"In and out of the garden he goes"

[Wakefield]

December 8 - Celebration of the "Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary" (Roman Catholic title)

[Mookalafalas]

Liutenant Kije Suite.  Especially Troika.  Of course it wasn't intended as Christmas music, but sure SOUNDS like it...

[North Star]

Pergolesi
Messa di S. Emidio (Missa Romana)

Alessandro Scarlatti
Messa per il santissimo Natale
Alessandrini & Concerto Italiano
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[Karl Henning]

December 8 - Celebration of the "Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary" (Roman Catholic title)

That looks a beauty.

[Wakefield]

That looks a beauty.

Very beautiful, indeed. Like this:



This Ensemble Jaques Moderne is excellent, too. 

[Wakefield]

This also deserves a careful consideration:

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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Christmas was celebrated with particular splendor in the churches and court chapels of seventeenth-century Lutheran Germany. This attractive program draws together a wide variety of Schütz' choral motets and dialogues to form an alternative Christmas story.

R E V I E W S:

"This handsome anthology of Schutz's Christmas music was recorded last year during the festive season. The selection spans the whole of Schutz's career and output, ranging from large-scale polychoral pieces to the more diminutive works composed when the Thirty Years War imposed relative hardship even on the courts of kings and dukes (such as Schutz's patron, the Elector of Saxony). The lovely Sei gegrusset, Maria combines both monumentality and intimacy, being a dialogue between the archangel Gabriel and the Virgin, framed by interventions from the choir and ensemble. Interspersed among these are instrumental pieces, mostly from the pen of Schutz's beloved mentor, Giovanni Gabrieli. There is something inherently festive about these pieces, so their inclusion here is very apposite. Mostly they are performed with panache and verve, and count among the disc's most satisfying moments; I particularly enjoyed the delightfully quirky canzona by Schutz's pupil, Matthias Weckmann, in which a violin, a cornet, a sackbut and a dulcian exchange melodic material largely made up of ascending thirds (from 2'25'' onwards), an enchanting conceit treated with increasing freedom.

The sound quality throughout is most engaging, but may surprise some listeners: even in the more grandiose selections, the emphasis is not on grandeur but on a compactness, not loudness but richness. It is largely a matter of adjusting one's expectations accordingly...but the music is so satisfying, its range so admirable as to make for compelling listening."

--Fabrice Fitch, GRAMOPHONE , From Review of Original Release HM 907202

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=5334

[kishnevi]

Found on a blog I read every day.  Although it might actually be better placed in another thread.


Source is:
http://leaveitlay.blogspot.com/2013/12/hilarity-to-put-in-my-pockets-precious.html

[Wakefield]

Found on a blog I read every day.  Although it might actually be better placed in another thread.

If you accept our humble purposes (limited to 2013), it's a perfect find for this thread. 

[North Star]

I saw that on Facebook, perhaps some other forumites did, too

[Wakefield]

This:

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Lovely work. (Although I can't vouch for this particular recording.)

Thanks for this recommendation! It's a beautiful work!

I'm listening to that Carus disk, indeed. It's excellent. 

[Drosera]

Thanks for this recommendation! It's a beautiful work!

I'm listening to that Carus disk, indeed. It's excellent. 

Glad you like it! It's such a 'catchy' work, I'm surprised it isn't more popular. 

[vandermolen]

The Saint-Saens looks interesting - must investigate.

Here are my two recommendations:
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Finzi's  'In Terra Pax' is an especially lovely work.

The last section of Vaughan Williams's 'Folk Songs of the Four Seasons' (on the Finzi disc)  is also a lovely, inspiriting end to the CD.

[Wakefield]

As It Fell on a Holie Eve - Music for an Elizabethan Christmas
Parthenia/ A Consort of Violes
Julianne Baird

[Cato]

I have loved this recording for c. 25 years: available still, although technically out of print.

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[Wakefield]

I have loved this recording for c. 25 years: available still, although technically out of print.

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Nice suggestion.

It's available on Spotify.