Schütz: Christmas Vespers / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players

Schütz: Christmas Vespers / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players

Schütz: Christmas Vespers / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1999-08-13
Music Label: Archiv Prod Import
Soundtracks:
  1. Prelude- La piva
  2. Chant - Deus in adjutorum
  3. Warum toben die Heiden
  4. Hymn - Christum wir sollen loben schon
  5. Eingang
  6. Rezitativ - Es begab sich zu derselbigen Zeit
  7. Intermedium I - Furschtet euch nicht
  8. Rezitativ - Und alsbald war da bei dem Engel
  9. Intermedium II - Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
  10. Rezitativ - Und da die Engel
  11. Intermedium III - Lasset uns nun gehen gen Betlehem
  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 Betlehem im jüdishe 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. Besluss - Danke sagen wir alle Gott
  24. Magnificat anima mea
  25. Hymn - Wir Christenlaut habn itzund Freud
  26. Quia fecit mihi magna
  27. Hymn - Lobt Gott, ihr Christen all zugleich
  28. Erusientes
  29. Hymn - In dulchi jubilo
  30. Gloria Patri
  31. O bone Jesu, fili Mariae
  32. Hymn - Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
  33. Collect and blessing
  34. Postlude - Benedicaums Domino a 6

Music reviews of Schütz: Christmas Vespers / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players

Music Review: Wonderful--but get another Oratorio for comparison
Rating: 4 Stars

First of all, I was enthralled by the singing and the organ sound: very rich and musical in every way. The congregational singing, specifically, is superb, and the CD is worth buying for everything that comes before and after the Christmas Historia.

The historia, though, is an edition that is disconcerting to me. Perhaps I have heard versions that are less "authentic" than this one, but there are enough differences between the McCreesh and other versions I have heard that I must assume others will be affected the same way.

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Description of Schütz: Christmas Vespers / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players

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

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