Dresdner Kammerchor & Hans-Christoph Rademann - O heilige Nacht: Romantic Choral Music for Christmas (2015) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Nachtgruß
02. Deutsche Volkslieder, Book 1, WoO 34: No. 5, Es flog ein Täublein weiße
03. Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt
04. Wie soll ich dich empfangen (Arr. G. Schreck for Choir)
05. Es ist ein Reis entsprungen
06. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Arr. G. Schreck for Choir)
07. Puer natus in Bethlehem
08. Still, ihr Winde, still geschwinde
09. Schlaf, mein Kindelein
10. Quem pastores laudavere
11. O freudenreicher Tag
12. Wiegenlied der Hirten "Lasst uns das Kindelein wiegen"
13. 4 Kirchengesänge: No. 3, Lass mich dein sein und bleiben
14. Kindelein zart
15. In dulci jubilo
16. Jesu, großer Wunderstern
17. Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 17, Weihnachtslied (Arr. K.M. Reinthaler for Choir)
18. Heil'ge Nacht
19. Stille Nacht (Arr. G. Schreck for Choir)
20. Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (Arr. M. Reger for Choir)

Just in time for the 30th anniversary season of the Dresdner Kammerchor, a new Christmas album with the choir under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann is being released. The recording features romantic arrangements of classical Advent and Christmas carols. The recorded works are characterized by this revival of the traditional, the old melodies and texts from the 14th to 18th centuries; but at the same time by the merging of the past with the (musical) future. The composers, among them Max Reger, Carl Loewe, Max Bruch and Johannes Brahms, point towards the modern era with their musical languages, the timbres, harmonic progressions and chromatic enhancements. In this sense, the present album – over and above the worthwhile discovery of unknown works, the artistic enjoyment of the performance and the musical attunement to Christmastide – is also an invitation to let oneself be drawn into a movement in which Advent is recognized as the simultaneity of the past and the future.

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