Christmas Stocking Stuffers

Program: #01-48   Air Date: Nov 26, 2001

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Our annual listen to new releases appropriate as gifts as we enter the Advent season.

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  1. MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER (c.1643–1704):
    Dialogus inter angelum et pastores, H. 406.
    (Il Seminario Musicale/Gerard Lesne, coductor & counter-tenor).
    From: Trois histoires sacrees—Astree/Naive CD E-8821.
  2. NICOLAS de GRIGNY (1672–1703):
    A solis ortus cardine.
    (Les Chantres du Roy/Jean-Pierre Lecaudey, organ [Julien Tribuot 1699] at the church of St.-Martin de Seurre).
    From: Les cinq hymnes (1699)—Pavane CD ADW-7451.
  3. GOTTFRIED HEINRICH STOLZEL (1690–1749):
    Cantata for New Year's Day: "Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder Werken."
    (Britta Schwarz, mezzo/Henning Voss, alto/Jan Kobow, tenor/ Klaus Mertens, bass/Weimar Baroque Ensemble/Ludger Remy, dir.).
    From: Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas 6-10—CPO CD 999.735.
  4. WILLIAM BYRD (1535/40–1623):
    Propers for Lady Mass from Christmas to the Purification: Introit "Vultum tuum" Gradual "Speciosus forma."
    (The Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood, dir.).
    From: The Byrd Edition, Volume VII—ASV/Gaudeamus CD GAU 224.
  5. PEROTINUS/PHILIPPE le CHANCELLIER (early 12th cen):
    Beata Viscera.
    Anon.: O magnum mysterium (from the Cistercian Antiphonary of Morimondo).
    Anon.: Laetabundus (Sequence from the Mass of St. Bernard).
    (Choeur Gregorien de Paris, Voix de femmes).
    From Marie—Naive CD V-4868.

Composer Info

MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER (c.1643-1704), NICOLAS de GRIGNY (1672-1703) , GOTTFRIED HEINRICH STOLZEL (1690-1749) , WILLIAM BYRD (1535/40--1623), PEROTINUS/PHILIPPE le CHANCELLIER (early 12th cen)

CD Info

CD E-8821, CD ADW-7451, CPO CD 999.735, CD GAU 224, CD V-4868

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