Schütz: The Christmas Story with Arcangelo
13 December 2024/ United Kingdom / Cambridge
A consort of renowned early music vocalists (including Nicholas Mulroy) joins acclaimed ensemble Arcangelo for this seasonal programme of music by Schütz and his contemporaries.
Schütz captures the freshness of the nativity story (the Bible only having been translated from Church Latin a few decades earlier) and gives it an expressive immediacy – the Italian influence on his style very much in evidence.
The rest of the programme explores the development of Schütz’s dramatic vocal style through a sequence of festive works for voices and instruments, alongside works by other important contemporaries.
H. Schütz | Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 456
J. Vierdanck | Sonata No.28 (from Capricci, Canzoni und Sonaten, 1641)
M. Praetorius | Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
J.H. Schein | Intrada (No 21 from Banchetto Musicale, 1617)
Schein | Gagliarda, Allemanda (from Banchetto musicale, Suite 10 in D minor)
Schütz | Heute ist Christus, der Herr, geboren SWV 439
Praetorius | Ballet TMA 268, La Bouree TMA 32 (from Terpsichore, 1612)
Schütz | Auf dem Gebirge, SWV 396
Schein | Padouana (from Suite No 10 of Banchetto Musicale, 1617)
Schütz | Siehe, es erschien der Engel, SWV 403
Schütz | Die Weihnachtshistorie (The Christmas Story), SWV 435
H. Schütz | Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 456
J. Vierdanck | Sonata No.28 (from Capricci, Canzoni und Sonaten, 1641)
M. Praetorius | Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
J.H. Schein | Intrada (No 21 from Banchetto Musicale, 1617)
Schein | Gagliarda, Allemanda (from Banchetto musicale, Suite 10 in D minor)
Schütz | Heute ist Christus, der Herr, geboren SWV 439
Praetorius | Ballet TMA 268, La Bouree TMA 32 (from Terpsichore, 1612)
Schütz | Auf dem Gebirge, SWV 396
Schein | Padouana (from Suite No 10 of Banchetto Musicale, 1617)
Schütz | Siehe, es erschien der Engel, SWV 403
Schütz | Die Weihnachtshistorie (The Christmas Story), SWV 435
