The Baroque Christmas Album

The Baroque Christmas Album

The Baroque Christmas Album
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
Composer: Heinrich Schutz
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli
Composer: Michael Praetorius
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Performer: English Baroque Soloists
Performer: English Concert
Performer: Gabrieli Consort
Performer: Gabrieli Consort & Players
Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Performer: Mirella Giardelli
Performer: Timothy Roberts
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
  1. Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland - John Eliot Gardiner
  2. Vous Qui Desirez Sans Fin - The English Concert
  3. Al La Venue De Noel - The English Concert
  4. Or Nous Dites, Marie - The English Concert
  5. Ou S'en Vont Ces Gais Bergers? - The English Concert
  6. Audite Principes - Paul McCreesh
  7. Nuit - Les Musiciens Du Louvre
  8. Kyrie - Les Musiciens Du Louvre
  9. Christe - Les Musiciens Du Louvre
  10. Salvator Noster - Gabrieli Consort & Players
  11. O Jesu Mi Dulcissime - Gabrieli Consort & Players
  12. Dank Sagen Wir Alle Gott - Gabrieli Consort & Players
  13. O Bone Jesu, Fili Mariae - Gabrieli Consort & Players
  14. Pastorale - The English Concert
  15. Puer Natus In Bethlehem - Gabrieli Consort & Players
  16. Puer Nobis Nascitur - Gabrieli Consort & Players
  17. Nun Lob Mein Seel (Organ) - Gabrieli Consort & Players
  18. In Dulci Jubilo - Gabrieli Consort & Players

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Free Music Review: 5-PLUS Stars
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There are not many things in life that I would describe as just Gorgeous -- but this album is definitely one of them. The selections, the arrangements, the production quality, all are clean, yet lush -- simultaneously light and rich. The effect is wonderful.

This may not appeal to hardest-core periodists, but for beautiful music lovingly performed, the album is very hard to beat. Not only rocketted to the top of my favorite holiday album list - it is already high on my favorite all-time list. It will NOT be getting put away with the rest of the Christmas albums. Year-round keeper!
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The Baroque Christmas Album Poster

This compilation of re-issues, originally recorded in the 1990s and 2001 features music, by Bach, Charpentier, Gabrieli, Schütz, Corelli (the famous beloved "Pastorale") and Praetorius, all of it beautiful and just right for celebrating a festival of light, hope, worshipful praise, and jubilation. It is performed to perfection by several period vocal and instrumental groups, the latter tuned to various "authentic" pitches. Some of the pieces are excerpts from longer works, some are arrangements, such as four lovely French Christmas carols in an instrumental version by Charpentier, whose harmonic and contrapuntal complexity makes the simplicity of the melodies all the more touching. There are also two reconstructions by Paul McCreesh of Christmas services as they might have been heard during Gabrieli's lifetime at Saint Mark's in Venice and during Schütz's lifetime at the Dresden Hofkapelle. The program is arranged for utmost contrast between vocal and instrumental textures, speed, length, mood and character. Among the highlights are the devout, fervent, quite melancholy "O Jesu me dulcissime" by Gabrieli, who wrote for voices with the same luminous brilliance as for brasses, and Praetorius' "In dulce jubilo," which, with fanfares of trumpets and drums, makes a fittingly triumphant, glorious ending. --Edith Eisler

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