The Baroque Christmas Album

The Baroque Christmas Album
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This compilation of re-issues, originally recorded in the 1990s and 2001 features music, by Bach, Charpentier, Gabrieli, Schütz, Corelli (the famous beloved "Pastorale") and Praetorius, all of it beautiful and just right for celebrating a festival of light, hope, worshipful praise, and jubilation. It is performed to perfection by several period vocal and instrumental groups, the latter tuned to various "authentic" pitches. Some of the pieces are excerpts from longer works, some are arrangements, such as four lovely French Christmas carols in an instrumental version by Charpentier, whose harmonic and contrapuntal complexity makes the simplicity of the melodies all the more touching. There are also two reconstructions by Paul McCreesh of Christmas services as they might have been heard during Gabrieli's lifetime at Saint Mark's in Venice and during Schütz's lifetime at the Dresden Hofkapelle. The program is arranged for utmost contrast between vocal and instrumental textures, speed, length, mood and character. Among the highlights are the devout, fervent, quite melancholy "O Jesu me dulcissime" by Gabrieli, who wrote for voices with the same luminous brilliance as for brasses, and Praetorius' "In dulce jubilo," which, with fanfares of trumpets and drums, makes a fittingly triumphant, glorious ending. --Edith Eisler
Country USA
Brand DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON,VARI,MUSICA BAROCCA,NATALE CLASSICO,
Manufacturer Archiv
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 028947757627
ReleaseDate 2005-10-11
UnitCount 1
UPCs 028947757627
EANs 0028947757627

Country	USA
Brand	DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON,VARI,MUSICA BAROCCA,NATALE CLASSICO,
Manufacturer	Archiv
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	028947757627
ReleaseDate	2005-10-11
UnitCount	1
UPCs	028947757627
EANs	0028947757627