Music for Advent and Christmas

[Cato]

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. 

Eventually everything will be on Spotify!   

[Karl Henning]

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

[asin]B000060K7S[/asin]

Will check that out with pleasure.

My choir have off both Thursday the 26^th and Sunday the 29^th, so I really need to start rehearsing them tomorrow night with something for Sunday the 5^th . . . and I think I've settled on the Coventry Carol.

[HIPster]

Catching this performance tomorrow!

http://www.bachcollegiumsd.org/web/events.aspx

1619: Praetorius In Dulci Jubilo

St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
San Diego, California
Friday, 20 December 2013 - 7:30 PM

Michael Praetorius was the most influential, diverse, and prolific composer of his generation. During the early seventeenth-century his musical productivity became the basic repertoire for the Lutheran church in Northern Germany. This musical offering will offer elements of a Lutheran Vespers ca. 1620s as it might have been performed in a large Northern German church during the mid-seventeenth-century.


Hammerschmidt: Kyrie Eleison a 5
Hammerschmidt: Gloria in Excelsis a 5
Rosenmüller: Lieber Herr Gott
Schütz: Freuet euch des Herren, SWV 130
Schütz: Der Engel sprach, SWV 395
Praetorius: Quem pastores laudavere
Praetorius: Vom Himmel hoch
Praetorius: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Praetorius: Singet und klinget, ihr Kinderlein
Praetorius: In dulci jubilo

Artists: Anne-Marie Dicce (Soprano); Jolle Greenleaf (Soprano); Molly Quinn (Soprano); Luthien Brackett (Alto); Matthew Tresler (Tenor); Paul Max Tipton (Baritone); Hank Heijink (Theorbo); Daniel Zuluaga (Theorbo); Julie Andrijeski (Violin); Robert Mealy (Violin); Greg Ingles (Sackbut); Alexandra Opsahl (Cornetto); Erik Schmalz (Sackbut); Kiri Tollaksen (Cornetto); Ruben Valenzuela (Chamber Organ)
Ensembles: Dark Horse Consort; TENET

[Que]

Catching this performance tomorrow!

Looks like a very nice program indeed. Enjoy!

In heavy rotation here is this one, from Ensemble Organum:
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I have a different edition than this one, but the music on this set is incredible!  A very moving listening experience.  Well worth the investment. . .

Got that one a while ago and saved it for the holidays, so will listen to it shortly.

Q

[Marc]

Enjoying this one right now:



http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Noel-Weihnachten-RIAS-Kammerchor/dp/B00COU0720

Beautiful choral music of a.o. M. Praetorius, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruch, Grieg, Bruckner, Poulenc and Pärt.

Recommended!

[Karl Henning]

Mm, that does look nice!

[Wakefield]

Advent IV

Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132, premiered on December 22, 1715.
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a, premiered on December 20, 1716 (expanded in 1723 to BWV 147 for Visitation).




http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Rec-BIG/Gardiner-P13c[sdg162_gb].pdf

http://www.bh2000.net/score/sacrbach/bwv132.pdf

[Florestan]

For something different, try these traditional Romanian carols

http://www.youtube.com/v/OvytYYn-i5Qhttp://www.youtube.com/v/qdOIdr624QYhttp://www.youtube.com/v/w68bL8GjfPQhttp://www.youtube.com/v/Ok0Pp9E8tlshttp://www.youtube.com/v/J2drZUsXUeEhttp://www.youtube.com/v/u-YYRWfvnLo

Enjoy!

[springrite]

I suddenly have the urge for the soundtrack of Life of Brian.

[Karl Henning]

That is obligatory Christmastide viewing!

[Karl Henning]

A balm? What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him.

[not edward]

Seriously, has nobody posted Schoenberg's Weihnachtsmusik yet?

http://www.youtube.com/v/yR94CiqtFLs

IMO an unjustly neglected minor masterpiece, with some wonderfully Schoenbergian contrapuntal touches--and a harmonium!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks for the reminder, Edward!

[Karl Henning]

At the Lessons & Carols tomorrow night, I shall play my Sonatina sopra « Veni, Emmanuel »

[not edward]

Very nice!

[Cato]

This has probably already been mentioned, but just in case:

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We played it this morning while baking Christmas cookies.  0:)

[pjme]

OK just let's enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/v/95moNkxIgkU

[pjme]

http://www.youtube.com/v/mAAEpogdiEI

Ottorino Respighi: Lauda per la nativita del signore.

[Florestan]

http://www.youtube.com/v/mAAEpogdiEI

Ottorino Respighi: Lauda per la nativita del signore.

Excellent!

[pjme]

http://www.youtube.com/v/3nmkfIcjxpE


Richard Smert (c.1400 - c.1479), Nowell: Dieus wous garde (Dieu vous garde)

Performed by Flanders Recorder Quartet & Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Peter Dijkstra

From the Begijnhofkerk, Sint-Truiden (Flanders, Belgium)