Composer: Tobias Zeutschner
Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg, Magdalena Podkościelna, David Erler, Carsten Kruger, Mirko Ludwig, Weser-Renaissance Bremen
Conductor: Manfred Cordes
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Release: 2021
Size: 340 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Ehre sey Gott allein à 12
02. Hosianna Filio David à 6
Die Geburth unsers Herren und Heylandes Jesu Christi nach dem Heiligen Evangelisten Matthaeo
03. I. Sinfonia – Halleluja
04. II. Die Geburt Christi war aber also getan
05. III. Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
06. IV. Sinfonia – Halleluja
07. Es ist kein anderer Heyl à 6
08. Ecce nunc benedicte Domino à 3
09. Halleluja – Gelobet seystu Jesu Christ à 15
Magnificat cum rotulis à 18
10. I. Magnificat anima mea Dominum
11. II. Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est
12. III. Fecit potentiam in brachio suo
13. IV. Esurientes implevit bonis est divites dimisit inanes
14. V. Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
15. VI. gloria patri, quia fecit mihi magna
A Christmas narrative from Old Breslau. The Weser-Renaissance ensemble had two goals in mind in its concert series »Breslau – A City in the Heart of Europe«: the first was to offer musical enjoyment and the second was to remember an old cultural environment that had been forgotten for many decades. The music manuscripts and printed editions discovered in the Berlin State Library attest to the great diversity and high quality of music culture in what was once the capital of Silesia. »Die Geburt unsers Herrn and Heylands Jesu Christi« (The Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ), a Christmas narrative by Tobias Zeutschner, who was active at Breslau’s principal churches St. Bernhardin and St. Mary Magdalene, forms the focus of the present selection from these sources in a program entitled »Weihnachten im Breslau des 17. Jahrhunderts – Festmusik in der Kirche St. Maria Magdalena« (Christmas in Seventeenth-Century Breslau – Festive Music in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene). This early example of a Biblical history composition is richly scored for eighteen voices.