Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players - Heinrich Schütz: Christmas Vespers (1999)
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players - Heinrich Schütz: Christmas Vespers (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 79:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ARCHIV Produktion | # 463 046-2 | Recorded: 1998-1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 79:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ARCHIV Produktion | # 463 046-2 | Recorded: 1998-1999
Heinrich Schütz's Christmas Story, besides being a historical milestone, has always been one of 17th-century music's crowd-pleasers–the former because it's the ancestor of Christmas oratorios by Bach, Charpentier, and even Berlioz; the latter because it presents engaging depictions of the characters in the Nativity story with a cornucopia of colorful instruments (piping recorders for the shepherds, a galumphing bassoon (representing the gait of the camels?) for the three wise men, regally blaring cornets for King Herod, and pompous trombones for his priests). As you might expect, there are a number of fine recordings of this proto-oratorio, from the graceful and somewhat delicate rendition of René Jacobs to the high-energy performance of Robert King. As usual, Paul McCreesh goes where no one has gone before, showing us the context for which Schütz probably wrote the work in the first place: a Christmas Day Vespers service at the court in Dresden where the composer was chapel master. McCreesh's reconstruction includes thrilling performances of two Christmas hymns (with tunes by Luther himself), organ music by Scheidt, a psalm from Schütz's collection Psalmen Davids, a delicate motet for four soloists, and (in an electrifying reading) a lavish multiple-choir Magnificat. Alongside all these, McCreesh's rendition of the Christmas Story seems–well, not lackluster, exactly (it's very skillfully done, and Susan Hemington Jones as the Angel is a particular treat), but a bit less inspired than the rest of the program. So if that one work is all you care about, you may want to consider the Jacobs or King versions; otherwise, this disc won't disappoint–it's as exciting a Christmas record as you'll find.–Matthew Westphal
Performer:
Charles Daniels (Evangelist, SWV 435)
Boys' Choir & Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh, conductor
Track List:
01. Prelude: La piva (Source: Vatican MS Q IV 28)
02. Deus in adjutorium - Domine ad adjuvandum
03. Psalm 2 "Warum toben die Heiden" SWV23
04. Hymn: Christum wir sollen loben schon
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi, SWV435 (1664)
05. Eingang: Die Geburt unsres Herren Jesu Christi (Reconstructed by Timothy Roberts)
06. Rezitativ: Es begab sich aber zu derselbigen Zeit…
07. Intermedium I: Fürchtet euch nicht…
08. Rezitativ: Und alsbald war da bei dem Engel… EngeltIntermedium II:
09. Intermedium II: Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe…
10. Rezitativ: Und da die Engel …
11. Intermedium III: Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem..
12. Rezitativ: Und sie kamen eilend …
13. Intermedium IV: Wo ist der neugeborne König…
14. Rezitativ: Da das der König Herodes hörete…
15. Intermedium V: Zu Bethlehem im jüdischen Lande…
16. Rezitativ: Da berief Herodes die Weisen heimlich…
17. Intermedium VI: Ziehet hin, und forschet fleißig…
18. Rezitativ: Als sie nun den König gehöret hatten…
19. Intermedium VII: Stehe auf, Joseph…
20. Rezitativ: Und er stund auf und nahm das Kindlein…
21. Intermedium VIII: Stehe Auf Joseph…
22. Rezitativ: Und er stund auf und nahm das Kindlein…
23. Beschluß: Dank sagen wir alle Gott…
24. Magnificat (SWV 468) - Magnificat anima mea - Et exsultavit - Quia respexit
25. Hymn: Wir Christenleut haben itzund Freud
26. Magnificat (SWV 468) - Quia fecit mihi magna-Et misericordia-Fecit potentiam
27. Hymn: Lobt Gott, Ihr Christen all zugleich
28. Magnificat (SWV 468) - Esurientes implevit bonis - Suscepit Israel - Sicut locutus est
29. In dulci jubilo (arr. Paul McCreesh)
30. Magnificat (SWV 468) - Gloria Patri, et Filio - Sicut erat in principio
31. O bone Jesu, fili Mariae (SWV 471)
32. Hymn: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
33. Collect and Blessing
34. Postlude: Benedicamus Domino à 6 (modus pleno organo pedaliter)
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Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players - Heinrich Schütz: Christmas Vespers (1999)
