Description
A very special CD for Christmas is presented by Flanders Recorder Quartet together with the young Belgian vocal ensemble Encantar and soprano Cecile Kempenaers: Christmas music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Traditional melodies as well as Gregorian chant, consort songs, and chorales: this early Christmas music rediates a lot of character and color, cheerfulness and contemplation.
The large recorders, practically a “living organ,” are the perfect partners for the singers. To be heard on this CD is the world’s largest recorder, a 3-meter-long sub-contrabass.
This is the Flanders Recorder Quartet’s fifth production for AEOLUS, and the CD debut of the four remarkable young singers of Encantar.
Tracklist:
Ave stella matutina Anonymus
Gelobet seist Du, Jesu Christ Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)
Descendit angelus Domini Clemens non Papa (c.1510-c.1556)
Lullay, lullay Anonymus
O Regem coeli Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Born is the Babe Anonymus
Sweet was the Song (arr. Th. Hamond, ?-1662) Anonymus
Sweet was the Song Anonymus
Summo parenti gloria Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Hymnus in adventu Domini: Alvus tumescit virginis Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Christum wir sollen loben Jacob Praetorius (1586-1651)
Quem vidistis pastores Lambert de Sayve (c.1548-1614)
Gabriel angelus Clemens non Papa (c.1510-c.1556)
Magnificat Alexander Agricola (1446-1506)
Nowel, nowel Anonymus
