Christmas Bells

Playlist 2018-12-23

This Week’s Links

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Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift List

Hymns and Carols of Christmas

Rose symbolism

First Hour

Anonymous, Greensleeves to a Ground (arr. Olivier Fourés), Daniel Hope – violin, Stefan Maass and/or Stephan Rath – lute/theorbo, Deutsche Grammophon B0013993-02, [amazon_textlink asin=’B003B7MFR0′ text=’AIR – A BAROQUE JOURNEY’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’26542327-049f-11e9-a382-c7e3ffd69927′]

Johann Melchior Molter (1696-1765), Concerto Pastorale in G, La Pieta, Angele Dubeau – violin, Analekta AN2 8730, [amazon_textlink asin=’B003X0XW36′ text=’NOEL’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’511f7cd9-049f-11e9-bd31-77a6b3e70c20′]

Antoine Busnois (c.1430-1492), Noel, Noel, Noel, The Orlando Consort, Harmonia Mundi 907418, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000GUJYL0′ text=’MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS 10TH-16TH C.SEC. & LITURG. MUS FOR FEAST DAYS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’61de23fa-049f-11e9-9d3d-a1a7d80f9c65′]

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Concerto Grosso op.6 #8 CHRISTMAS CONCERTO, Academy of Ancient Music, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Alison Balsom – trumpet, Warner Classics 925116, [amazon_textlink asin=’B01JDODE92′ text=’JUBILO’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’7243fcc4-049f-11e9-9fdf-1731bdf35958′]

German, 14th c. harmony, Bartholomew Gesius, 1601, In dulci jubilo, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, CORO 16085, [amazon_textlink asin=’B01KBIDIZE’ text=’A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTION VOL.II’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’7c908d36-049f-11e9-92f7-714c53603b7b’]

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Messiah: Sinfonia, For Unto Us a Child is Born, Glory to God in the Highest, & Thou that tell good tidings, Academy of Ancient Music, Edward Higginbottom, Iestyn Davies – countertenor, Naxos, 570131/32, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000S5A69W’ text=’MESSIAH (1751 VERSION)’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c7f8242e-049f-11e9-acc5-4512329d9bef’]

Second Hour

O Tannenbaum, CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Naxos, 550301, [amazon_textlink asin=’B0000274RJ’ text=’CHRISTMAS GOES BAROQUE’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d19da023-049f-11e9-99a1-8de37186dccb’]

Francesco Manfredini (1684-1762), Concerto Grosso in C op.3 #12 CHRISTMAS, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon 419046, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000V6Q818′ text=’ALBINONI: ADAGIO PACHELBEL: CANON & GIGUE’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’66d8718e-04a0-11e9-a141-41f130b9bf77′]

Traditional English, I Saw Three Ships, Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland Baroque Orchestra), Jeannette Sorrell, Sandra Simon – soprano, Koch 7582, [amazon_textlink asin=’B001KSROOG’ text=’NOELS & CAROLS FROM THE OLDE WORLD’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6ea8b81a-04a0-11e9-a181-09dc3d6c9e5f’]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Christmas Oratorio BWV248 – Part 1 – Chorus: Jauchzet, frohlocket!, Aria (alto): Nun wird mein liebster Brautigam, & Chorale: Ach, mein herzliebes Jesulein, Dresden Chamber Choir, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Wiebke Lehmkuhl – alto, Riccardo Chailly, Decca 478227, [amazon_textlink asin=’B004DFBU34′ text=’BACH WEIHNACHTS-ORATORIUM’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’81621cfe-04a0-11e9-b051-8d39fcde974d’]

Traditional English, Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantione), We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Wassail Song, & God Rest You Merry Gentleman, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Sony 7033, [amazon_textlink asin=’B0000024Q6′ text=’FESTIVAL OF CAROLS IN BRASS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’891eb4db-04a0-11e9-aaac-178f8ce3eb81′]

Traditional, Coventry Carol (lully, lulla …), New York Polyphony, Geoffrey Dunstan Williams – countertenor, Geoffrey Silver – tenor, Craig Philips – bass-baritone, Scott Dispensa – baritone, AVIE 2141, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000X7RQS4′ text=’I SING THE BIRTH’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’9ed4430f-04a0-11e9-adfe-43ae2e50cbb7′]

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), Noels pour les instruments, Masques, Olivier Fortin, Analekta 9908, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000BK53LA’ text=’NOEL BAROQUE (BAROQUE CHRISTMAS)’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a82ed24d-04a0-11e9-943a-5b3822b0c9f0′]

Third Hour

Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599), Canite tuba (Sound the trumpet), His Majestie’s Clerkes, Anne Heider, Centaur 2168, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000025VGQ’ text=’NEWS OF GREAT JOY’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’bb301641-04a0-11e9-b04d-b9f589913f15′]

Anthony Holborne (c.1545-1602), Elizabethan Dance Suite, Empire Brass, Telarc 80257, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000003CX7′ text=’ROYAL BRASS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d17e143c-04a0-11e9-9a47-c1cb9ae24e1f’]

Anonymous English Carol 15th c., There is no rose of such virtu
German Traditional (late 15th c?), Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming (Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen), Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Philips 462050, [amazon_textlink asin=’B0018OC5QY’ text=’ONCE AS I REMEMBER …’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e8fb90fe-04a0-11e9-93f9-31f45e702155′]

Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764), Concerto Grosso #8 in f op.1 CHRISTMAS, Raglan Baroque Players, Elizabeth Wallfisch & Nicholas Kraemer, Hyperion 66982, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000003000′ text=’THE RAGLAN BAROQUE PLAYERS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’50db0f95-04a1-11e9-b38f-d7cdccb3add6′]

16th c. French melody, Ding Dong! Merrily on High
Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/7-1612), O Magnum Mysterium
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612), Motet: Angelus ad pastores ait (Shepherds Quaked when the Angel Told Them), Musica Sacra, Richard Westenburg, Deutsche Grammophon 429732, [amazon_textlink asin=’B00DT4RLHY’ text=’CHRISTMAS CAROLS: MUSICA SACRA’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’744addf6-04a1-11e9-9a22-fdb5b35627f9′]

Heinrich Franz Ignaz von Biber (1644-1704), Mystery Sonata #3 THE NATIVITY, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, Christina Day Martinson – violin, LINN CKD501, [amazon_textlink asin=’B07B64T9R8′ text=’HEINRICH BIBER THE MYSTERY SONATAS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’7d23ba7f-04a1-11e9-8ffe-4f7508e8aa1d’]

Henry VIII, Grene growith the holy (a cappella)
Traditional English, The holly and the ivy (a cappella), Anonymous 4, Harmonia Mundi 907325, [amazon_textlink asin=’B0000AZKK4′ text=’WOLCUM YULE CELTIC AND BRITISH SONGS AND CAROLS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’83f296ea-04a1-11e9-bac8-9b8bddf23826′]

Fourth Hour

Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (c. 1633/39-1693), Sonata Natale, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, L’Oiseau Lyre 410179, [amazon_textlink asin=’B017CI4B2K’ text=’CHRISTMAS CONCERTOS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’96af57eb-04a1-11e9-a17b-c16f0249fe98′]

John Taverner (c.1490-1545), Audivi vocem de caelo, Stile Antico, Harmonia Mundi 807517, [amazon_textlink asin=’B003OXILP6′ text=’PUER NATUS EST: TUDOR MUSIC FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a03d7a26-04a1-11e9-9385-a756c0dc4e28′]

Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750), Concerto Grosso #6 in g op.5 CHRISTMAS, Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini, Harmonia Mundi 901245, [amazon_textlink asin=’B000027O86′ text=’GIOVANNI BATTISTA & GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI: CONCERTI & SINFONIE’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b37e866c-04a1-11e9-a180-9d643e085f3d’]

c.1500 Ritson MS, Nowell, nowell: Dieu vous garde, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, CORO 16027, [amazon_textlink asin=’B0002ZYDJM’ text=’CHRISTUS NATUS EST: AN EARLY ENGLISH CHRISTMAS’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’bcb2f027-04a1-11e9-8eba-d7d75b2fc8a1′]

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Concerto RV270 IL RIPOSO PER IL S.S. NATALE, Brecon Baroque, Rachel Podger – violin, Channel Classics 40318, [amazon_textlink asin=’B0794MC75P’ text=’VIVALDI – LE QUATTRO STAGIONI’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c5dc1001-04a1-11e9-9617-8f489a0c6e3b’]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV147: chorale Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Alison Balsom – trumpet, Warner Classics 925116, [amazon_textlink asin=’B01JDODE92′ text=’JUBILO’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’0f0835a5-04a2-11e9-acca-09a53d2a7703′]

Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716), Concerto Pastorale, Les Violons du Roy (King’s Violins), Bernard Labadie, Dorian 90180, [amazon_textlink asin=’B009470IYS’ text=’A TREASURY OF BAROQUE CHRISTMAS CONCERTI’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sundaybaroque-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’418d40a8-04a2-11e9-bb4d-f372ffa358c0′]

 

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