Historia nativitatis: Christmas Oratorio after Schutz
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Label: CPO
Cat No: 5554322
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 7th January 2022
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Ensemble PolyharmoniqueAbout
The resultant HISTORIA NATIVITATIS strictly follows the formal intention of ‘Sagittarius Schütz’ and was set for a ‘corpus musicum’ of six voice parts, two violins, curtal, and a colourful basso continuo (organ, regal, theorbo, Baroque harp, violone). Contemporary sources, primarily from Central Germany, some of them otherwise unknown compositions by Andreas Hammerschmidt, Samuel Scheidt, Wolfgang Carl Briegel, Johann Georg Carl, Stephan Otto, and others, that exactly follow the source texts are extant. What we have before us is a historia such as might have been heard at a Christmas vespers service in Central Germany during the seventeenth century. It combines magnificent art music with traditional Christmas melodies of Central German provenance and during its course is transformed into a spirited oratorio, interpreted here by the famous Polyharmonique ensemble with attention to historical performance practice.
Concertos, motets and songs by Andreas Hammerschmidt, Tobias Michael, Johann Eccard, Melchior Franck, Johann Rosenmüller, Sethus Calvisius, Stephan Otto, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, Philipp Dulichius, Johann Hermann Schein, Johann Georg Carl, Bartholomäus Gesius, Wolfgang Carl Briegel and Heinrich Schütz
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