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How Brightly Lights the Morning Star: Christmas pastorale music and sacred songs from the Baroque

1 CD / Oehms / 2011-11-15

Works: Bernhard Schmid the Elder: Bewahr mich, Herr, for organ; Michael Praetorius: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How Brightly Shines the Morning Star) (from the Polyhymnia caduc; Anonymous: Pado...
Performers: Clemencic, Rene
Conductors: Clemencic, René; Clemencic, René
Ensemble: Clemencic Consort

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The material is fresh and the music is gently pastoral or celebratory, so the album should have an appeal for listeners looking for music for...continue...
Recording information: Chapel of Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium, Vienna (01/2011)....continue...

Christmas in Old Austria / Clemencic, Clemencic Consort

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-08-08

Works: Anonymous, Austrian: Psalmus instrumentaliter, for ensemble; Weyhnachtgsang no 1, hymn (Geistliche Nachtigall, Vienna, pub. 1648); Mittit ad Virginem, hymn (Geistliche Nachtigall, Vienna, pub. 1648);...
Performers: Clemencic, Rene; Kummer, Eberhard; Landauer, Bernhard; Pitzl, Pierre; Reithofer, Wolfgang
Conductors: Clemencic, René

The feast of Christmas in Old Austria was more colorful, more vivid, and for the most part more pious than it is today. Christmas matins...continue...