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Christmas 2020
[…] a Child is born). It was published in 1609. Here it is performed by the Gabrieli Consort under the direction of Paul McCreesh. Eleven years later another German composer, Samuel Scheidt, who knew and worked with Praetorius, composed a hymn Puer natus in Bethlehem (A child is born in Bethlehem). This was a very popular text, and Praetorius also set it to music, not once but three time. Scheidt’s version is sung by the Sølvguttene ("The Silver Boys") choir from Norway under the direction of Fredrik Otterstad, here. Heinrich Schütz was a more famous contemporary of Scheidt’s. One of his late works is The Christmas Story (Schütz was 75 when the Story was premiered in Dresden in 1660). The text was taken from Martin Luther’s version of the Gospels. You can listen to it here, in the performance by the Westfalishe Kantorei conducted by Wilhelm Ehmann. Let’s move half […]
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