VA - The Baroque Christmas Album (2005)

Tracks:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
“Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”, BWV 62
01. Chorus “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” (Choir)

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634 – 1704)
02 – 05. Noëls sur les instruments, H 531, 534

The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Giovanni Gabrieli
06. Audite principes a 16, C 123

Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Charles Pott, Charles Humphries, Robert Evans

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634 – 1704)
07. In nativitatem Domini canticum, H. 416 – Nuit
08 – 09. Messe de Minuit, H. 9

Eric Huchet, Patrick Henckens, Russell Smythe
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

Giovanni Gabrieli
10. Salvator noster a 15, C 80
11. O Jesu mi dulcissime a 8, C 56

Robert Harre-Jones, Rodrigo del Pozo, Charles Pott, Richard Savage, Robin Tyson, Julian Podger, Robert Evans, Simon Grant, Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts, James Johnstone

Heinrich Schütz (1585 – 1672)
12. Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi, SWV435 (1664)
13. O bone Jesu, fili Mariae (SWV 471)

Timothy Roberts, Susan Hemington Jones, Rodrigo Del Pozo, Charles Daniels, Simon Grant
Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort

Arcangelo Corelli (1653 – 1713)
Concerto grosso in G minor, Op.6, No.8 “fatto per la notte di Natale”
14. 6. Pastorale: Largo

The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621)
15. Puer natus in Bethlehem – Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
16. Final hymn: “Puer nobis nascitur” – Musae Sioniae VI (1609)
17. Organ voluntary: “Nun lob mein Seel”
18. Recessional: “In dulci jubilo” – Polyhymnia caduceatrix (1619)

Susan Hemington Jones, Constanze Backes, Simon Grant
Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh
Boy’s Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Congregational Choir Of Roskilde Cathedral, Gabrieli Consort