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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...

Michael Praetorius: Advents & Weihnachtsmusik

1 CD / Christophorus Import / 2011-10-11

Works: Michael Praetorius: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, for 5 voices (Musae Sioniae 9, no 211); Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How Brightly Shines the Morning Star) (from the Polyhymni...
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Ensemble: Frankfurter Renaissance Ensemble

Recording information: Ev. Auferstehungskirche Frankfurt/Main-Praunheim (05/1993-06/1993)....continue...

A Christmas Concert / Pittsburgh Symphony Brass

2 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2004-08-03

Works: George Frederick Handel: Joy to the World (theme by Handel); Mykola Leontovych: Carol of the Bells; Christmas Traditional: Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French); I Saw Three Ships, carol; Masters in Th...
Performers: Berntsen, Neal; Caballero, William; Crewe, Murray; Erickson, Sumner; Hamrick, Robert; Pittsburgh Symphony Brass; Sullivan, Peter; Vosburgh, George
Conductors: Vosburgh, George
Ensemble: Pittsburgh Symphony Brass

The Pittsburgh Symphony Brass, led by Grammy Award-winner George Vosburgh, possess a unique blend of virtuosity with brilliant sonority rarely achieved in brass music. The...continue...
Personnel: Neal Bernstein, George Vosburgh (trumpet, flugelhorn); Murray Crewe (bass trombone); Sumner Erickson (tuba).

Recording information: East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh.
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SCENE Praetorius: Christmas Motets, Chorale Concertos

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-10-23

Works: Michael Praetorius: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (from the Polyhymnia caduceatrix); Nun komm der Heiden Heiland; Puer natus in Bethlehem; Missa gantz Teudsch (Polyhymnia Caduceatrix); Vom Himmel h...
Performers: Brutscher, Markus; Geitner, Petra; Hirtreiter, Andreas; Kogel, Tilman; Leibundgut, Michael; Mammel, Hans-Jorg; Mehltretter, Florian; Schonberger, Birgit; Seidenbusch, Helmut; Seifert, Rainer
Conductors: Raml, Franz
Ensemble: Hassler Consort

"...These were some of the most popular cantiones of the fifteenth century, some of them macaronic (mixing Latin and vernacular phrases), and the duality was...continue...