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Release Date: Friday 14 October 2022
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This innovative programme presents an imaginary Christmas oratorio made up of works by German composers of the 17th century. Many of these works are unpublished and come from the splendid Düben collection in the library of the University of Uppsala; they are arranged here in a sequence that introduces the scenes and the principal characters of the Nativity: Mary, Joseph, the Archangel Gabriel, the angels, the shepherds, the Magi and Simeon. These works belong to the genre of the historia sacra and depict the dialogue of the Annunciation between the archangel Gabriel and Mary, the arrival of the Magi - guided by angels - at the manger, and the scene where Mary and Joseph look for Jesus in the Temple. These narrative scenes stand in contrast to the large ensembles that represent the angelic host, the shepherds, and the adoring multitudes before the manger. The instruments also play an important role in this celebration with their contrasting timbres. This recording features works by Andreas Hammerschmidt, Wolfgang Carl Briegel, Christian Flor, Christoph Bernhard, Heinrich Schütz, Franz Tunder, David Pohle, and Thomas Selle.
Briegel: Dies ist der Tag des Fröhligkeit
Hammerschmidt: Maria gegrüsset seist du
Schelle, J: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Bernhard: Furchtet euch nicht
Hammerschmidt: Freude, Freude, grosse Freude à 6
Praetorius, M: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Flor: Pastores currite in Bethlehem
Hammerschmidt: Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein
Tunder: Ein kleines Kindelein
Praetorius, M: Puer natus in Bethelem
Schütz: O bone Jesu, fili Mariae, SWV 471
Selle: Angelus ad Josephum
Buxtehude: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223: I. Versus 1. Allegretto con moto
Hammerschmidt: Wie bin ich doch so herzlich froh
Hammerschmidt: Wo ist der neugeborne Konig?
Johann Rudolph Ahle: Herr, nun lässest du deiner Diener
Capricornus: Sonata ab 8 Instrument: I.
Hammerschmidt: Mein Sohn, warum hast du uns getan?
Pohle: Nascitur Immanuel
Bach, J C'ph: O Freudenzeit, o Wundernacht