Jean-Pierre Van Hees, Luc Ponet - Christmas in Belgium: Vlaamse traditionele Kerstliederen & Chants de Noëls traditionnels wallons (2016) [Hi-Res]

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01. O blijde nacht, o lang verwacht
02. Herders, Hij is geboren
03. Herders, Hij is geboren (Arranged by Jules Van Nuffel)
04. Herders, Hij is geboren (Arranged by Pierre Froidebise)
05. Suite uit het Beyaert handschrift: Ave Jesu Deus Magne
06. Djans è foù d'Jérusalem (Arranged by Pierre Froidebise)
07. Djans è foù d'Jérusalem
08. Een kind gheboren
09. Een kind gheboren (Arranged by Jules Van Nuffel)
10. Drie Vlaamse kerstliederen: Een kind gheboren in Bethlehem
11. Trois noëls traditionnels wallons: Oh douce nuit
12. Efans n'oyez v'nin
13. Allons pasteurs qu'on se réveille
14. Bondjou Wésène (Arranged by Pierre Froidebise)
15. Bondjou Wésène
16. Vous-se vinî cusène Mareye
17. Laet ons met herte reine
18. Laet ons met herte reine (Arranged by Jules Van Nuffel)
19. Laet ons met herte reine (Arranged by Pierre Froidebise)

The provinces of Belgium have a unique and very rich traditional repertoire of Christmas carols.

The oldest of them date from the Middle Ages. The mood of the carols varies between intimate enchantment and festive exuberance. We have chosen a variety of approaches to the repertoire, whose many facets invite interpretation either in the folk tradition or in a more classical style. The organ and the bagpipes are cousins, both being aerophones with a bellows and multiple pipes. The organ developed into an instrument with multiple registrations, effectively putting several families of instruments into the hands of a single player. This development made it less and less portable, so that it ultimately became a fixed instrument. The bagpipes, meanwhile, have retained their character as a wandering minstrel’s instrument with its origins in agro-pastoral tradition, used to accompany festivities both outdoors and indoors. This may be one of the reasons why the two instruments have rarely been combined in performance, even though their sonorities go together surprisingly well, to the point that the bagpipes sometime sound like an organ stop.

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