Puer Nobis Nascitur: Christmas Carols | Challenge Classics CC72234

Puer Nobis Nascitur: Christmas Carols

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72234

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 29th October 2007

Contents

Works

Daquin
Noel Suisse (Noel XII)

Daquin
Quand Jesus naquit a Noel (Noel X)

Daquin
Adam fut un pauvre homme (Noel VI)

Bull
Carol ‘Een kindeken is ons geboren’ (I)

Sweelinck
Ons is gheboren een kindekijn (Puer nobis nascitur)

Dandrieu
Noel de Saintogne

Dandrieu
Noel Poitevin

Dandrieu
Si c’est pour oter la vie

Dandrieu
Adam fut un pauvre homme

Zipoli
Pastorale

Bruna
Tiento sobra la letania de la Virgen

Buxtehude
Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern

Buxtehude
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

Buxtehude
In dulci jubilo

Lebegue
Une Vierge Pucelle

Lebegue
A la venue de Noel (dialogue)

Lebegue
Noel pour l’amour de Marie

J S Bach
Pastorale (BWV 590)

J S Bach
In dulci jubilo (BWV 729)

Artists

Ton Koopman (organ)

Works

Daquin
Noel Suisse (Noel XII)

Daquin
Quand Jesus naquit a Noel (Noel X)

Daquin
Adam fut un pauvre homme (Noel VI)

Bull
Carol ‘Een kindeken is ons geboren’ (I)

Sweelinck
Ons is gheboren een kindekijn (Puer nobis nascitur)

Dandrieu
Noel de Saintogne

Dandrieu
Noel Poitevin

Dandrieu
Si c’est pour oter la vie

Dandrieu
Adam fut un pauvre homme

Zipoli
Pastorale

Bruna
Tiento sobra la letania de la Virgen

Buxtehude
Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern

Buxtehude
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

Buxtehude
In dulci jubilo

Lebegue
Une Vierge Pucelle

Lebegue
A la venue de Noel (dialogue)

Lebegue
Noel pour l’amour de Marie

J S Bach
Pastorale (BWV 590)

J S Bach
In dulci jubilo (BWV 729)

Artists

Ton Koopman (organ)

About

If we had to characterise Christmas with one word, the word would be ‘lyrical’. This quality constantly recurs in the polyphonic music that composers and church musicians of great fame and reputation have written for Christmas over the centuries. This is true above all in the Christmas music written for organ - the church music instrument par excellence. The selection presented here covers a period of two and a half centuries, from Sweelinck (1562-1621) and John Bull (1563-1626) to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and perfectly fits the instrument.

Ton Koopman (1944) studied organ (Simon C. Jansen), harpsichord (Gustav Leonhardt) and musicology in Amsterdam and was awarded the Prix d’Excellence for both instruments. As an organist he has performed on the most prestigious historical instruments of Europe, and he has also performed as a harpsichord player and conductor of his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

The Van Peteghem Organ in Haringe (Flanders) was built in 1778 and has, uniquely, been preserved intact as a rococo instrument. It is the climax of organ-building artistry of the Van Peteghem family, who enriched the Flemish organ scene with the best instruments of their kind and era. The Haringe organ is undoubtedly the best-preserved instrument from that period. It has never been rebuilt and its registers were never modernised in accordance with the prevailing tastes of intervening periods. Moreover, it has a wide- ranging and extremely varied disposition. The combination of all these elements makes this organ unique among Flemish historical organs, a fact that is recognised and appreciated by organists and organ lovers throughout the world. Between 1993 and 1994 the organ was restored by J.P. Draps and G. Potvlieghe under the supervision of the Belgian Department for Conservation.

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