A Christmas Tale with the Huelgas Ensemble and Paul Van Nevel
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (Conductor)
Huelgas Ensemble
Poline Renou (soprano), Axelle Bernage (mezzo soprano), Achim Schulz (tenorino), Bernd...
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (Conductor)
Huelgas Ensemble
Poline Renou (soprano), Axelle Bernage (mezzo soprano), Achim Schulz (tenorino), Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Stefan Berghammer, Matthew Vine (tenors), Tim Scott Whiteley, Guillaume Olry (basses), Bart Coen (recorder), Peter De Clercq (recorder), Silke Jacobsen (recorder, tabor, flute & percussion), An Van Laethem (rebec, fiddle & renaissance violin), Susanne Braumann (viol)
Mirabile Mysterium - A European Christmas Tale (1300-1850)
1. The birth in Bethlehem
Balaam de quo vaticinans (a 3) - anonymus, ca. 1300
Myrabile Mysterium (a 5) - Jacobus Gallus 1550-1591
Este niño que es sol del Aurora (a 2, 4 & 8) - Jerónimo Luca ca. 1630
Carol for Christmas-Eve (a 4), from Christmas Carols, London 1871
2. The crime of Herodes
Hostis Herodes Impie (a 4) - Anonymus, ca. 1320
Interrogabat Magos Herodes (a 4) - Jean Mouton ca.1459-1522
Vox in Rama (a 5) - Giaches de Wert 1535-1596
A voice from Ramah was there sent (a 4) - B. Luard Selby (England, 19th Century)
3. The travel of the three Kings Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar (Le voyage des trois rois mages)
Vincti Presepio (a 3) - Anonymus, ca. 1300
Reges Terrae (a 6) - Pierre de Manchicourt, ca.1510-1564
Ab Oriente (a 5) - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , 1562-1621
Drei Könige (a 5) - Peter Cornelius, 1824-1874
4. Epilogue
Quae stella sole pulchrior (a 1 & 4) - Anonymus, ca. 1300
Dexen que Llore mi Niño (a 1, 4 & 8) - António Marques Lésbio, 1639-1709
Recorded on December 23, 2014 at the Saint Augustine Church, Antwerp, Belgium