Christmas was celebrated with particular splendour in the churches and court chapels of seventheenth-century Lutheran Germany. This attractive programme draws together a wide variety of Schütz' choral nmotets and dialogues to form an alternative Christmas Story. As Schütz wrote no purely instrumental music, the sonatas and canzonas are by his associates and pupils. The two virtuosic canzonas by Giovanni Gabrieli are double-choir works with pairs of violins and cornetts supported by trombones; the Usper sonata employs the same isntrumental forces in a fascinating mixture of old and new sonorities. (Harmonia Mundi)
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| Titel | A Christmas Collection: Schütz - Gabrieli |
| Instelling | /Academy of Ancient Music |
| Secundaire auteur | Paul Goodwin |
| Type materiaal | CD |
| Uitgave | Harmonia Mundi, 1997 |
| Overige gegevens | 1 disc |
| Annotatie | Werken: (1) Heinrich Schütz: Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk, SWV 382; (2) Heinrich Schütz: Sei gegrüsset, Maria; (3) Gabrieli: Canzon XI; (4) Heinrich Schütz: Magnificat anima mea Dominum, SWV 468; (5) Heinrich Schütz: Joseph, du Sohn David, SWV 323; (6) Heinrich Schütz: Der Engel sprach zu den Hirten, SWV 395; (7) Heinrich Schütz: Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 315; (8) Matthias Weckmann: Sonate à 4; (9) Heinrich Schütz: O Jesu, nomen dulce, SWV 308; (10) Heinrich Schütz: Ein Kind ist uns geboren, SWV384; (11) Gabrieli: Canzon X; (12) Heinrich Schütz: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, SWV 327; (13) Heinrich Schütz: Das Wort ward Fleisch, SWV 385; (14) Francesco Usper: Sonate à 8; (15) Heinrich Schütz: Alleluja, lobet den Herren, SWV 38. Uitvoerenden: Academy Of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin. |
| Taal | Nederlands |
| Onderwerp algemeen | Kerst ; Barok ; VOCAAL: koor (en soli) met instr. beg. - tot ca. 1750 |