Early Music New York: A Dutch Christmas

Program: #07-50 Air Date: Dec 03, 2007

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Over the years, we have celebrated this ensemble's many Christmas programs during December—this year, festivities from the time of the founding of the Dutch republic and Holland's Golden Age.

This program is Free for all, thanks to this generous Preservation Grant:

Preservation of this program is made possible by a generous grant from Nora Harmon.

NOTE: All of the music on this program is performed by the ensemble Early Music New York directed by Frederick Renz. This is the sixth in the ensemble Christmas series—the first four being:

A Medieval Christmas—CD # EC-9001
A Renaissance Christmas—CD # EC-9003
A Baroque Christmas—CD # EC-9004
A Colonial Christmas—CD # EC-9006
A Bohemian Christmas—CD # EC-9007
A Dutch Christmas—CD # EC-9009

You may order these at the ensemble's web site:

www.EarlyMusicNY.org

or purchase them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The program looks at a century-and-a-half of music from the Lowlands for the Holy season.

BENEDICTUS APPENZELLER (publ. 1505/6): Buvons, ma comere ("Let's drink, old gal").

TIELMAN SUSATO (c.1500-c. 1562) (from Het derse musyck boexken, 1551)—all dances unless otherwise noted:

Bergerette: Sans roch
Rondo
Basses danse: Mon desir
Allemaigne
Recoupe
2 Allemaignes
Danse de Hercules oft maticine
De Madrigale
Les quatre Bransles
Fagot

LUPUS HELLINC: Nieuwe almanack ("The New Almanac and Prognostication on this Holy Innocents' Day")

Anon.: Wy comen heir gelopen ("We have come here walking").

Danse du Roy
La rocque galliarde
3 Rondes
Saltarelle

Anon.: (from Zwanenbroedershuis Codex 73, c. 1544):

Apud dominum (Vigilia nativitatis Domini: "At second vespers at the Birth").
Quando natus est ("When you were miraculously born of the Virgin").
Novum genus potentiae ("A new type of power").

TIELMAN SUSATO (from Het derse musyck boexken, 1551):

Passe et medio
Reprise: La pigne
Galliarde: Ghequest bin ick
Ronde: Pour quoy
Ronde: Mon amy

Anon. (Laudes vespertinae, 1604-1629): Fit porta Christi pervia ("The portal of Christ swings open").

JOANNES BERCKELAERS (?1630-?1700): Comt met vreucht naer't stalleken ("Come with joy to the stable")

JACOB van EYCK (1589/90-1659): Variations on Puer nobis nascitur

Anon.: Ons is gheboren een kindeklijn ("A child was born to us").

JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK (1562-1621): Variations on Ons is gheboren een kindeklijn

Anon. (from Cantiones natalitiae, 1651): O Herders al soetjens ("O Shepherds, all sweet and without any noise")

GULIELMUS MESSAUS (Laudes vespertinae, 1648): Nato nobis Salvatore ("Now that our Savior is born")

CORNELIUS de LEEUW (c.1613-1661): Een kindeken is ons geboren ("A child was born to us")

JACOB van EYCK: Variations on Een kindeken is ons geboren

Anon. (c.1650): Nu zijt wellekome ("Now be welcome, Jesus sweet Lord")

PETRUS HURTADO (1655): In't stalleken van Bethlehem ("In a manger in Bethlehem")

"GOUDSMIT" (publ. by Paulus Matthysz. c.1645): O zaligh, heyligh Bethlehem (O blessed, holy Bethlehem")

GISBERT van STEENWICK (??-1679): Variations on O zaligh, heyligh Bethlehem

JACOB van EYCK: Variations on O zaligh, heyligh Bethlehem

HERMAN HOLLANDERS (c. 1600-c.1650): Cantabant sancti (In festo SS. Innocentibus): ("I heard the saints sing a new song")

JAN BAPTIST VERRIJT (c. 1600-1630): Currite, pastores ("Run, shepherds to Bethlehem")

HERMAN HOLLANDERS: Quem vidistes pastores ("Shepherd, whom did you see?")

JACOB van EYCK: Variations on "Les Boffons"

PHILIPPUS van STEELANT (from Cantiones natalitiae, 1654): Fistulis, lyris et organis ("With pipes, lyres, and loud-sounding instruments").

Composer Info

BENEDICTUS APPENZELLER (publ. 1505/6), TIELMAN SUSATO (c.1500-c. 1562), LUPUS HELLINC, JOANNES BERCKELAERS (?1630-?1700), JACOB van EYCK (1589/90-1659), JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK (1562-1621), GULIELMUS MESSAUS, CORNELIUS de LEEUW (c.1613-1661), PETRUS HURTADO (1655), GISBERT van STEENWICK (??-1679), HERMAN HOLLANDERS (c. 1600-c.1650), JAN BAPTIST VERRIJT (c. 1600-1630), PHILIPPUS van STEELANT

CD Info

CD # EC-9001, CD # EC-9003, CD # EC-9004, CD # EC-9006, CD # EC-9007, CD # EC-9009

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