On this special two-hour Christmas edition of Baroque&Before, we present a Bach Concert for Christmas from Austria’s Sankt Pölten Cathedral, recorded live in concert December 8th; as well as a French Baroque Christmas from Montreal, recorded live in concert December 9th.
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PART ONE
Michel Corrette (1709-1795)
Symphonie des Noëls No. 2 in D
Traditional (France)
Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (c.1645-1704)
Noëls sur les instruments, H.534
Traditional (France)
Noël nouvelet
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
“La Nuit,” from the oratorio Dialogus inter angelos et Pastores Judeae in nativitatem Domini, H. 420
Excerpts from Noëls sur les instruments, H.531
Traditional (France)
Berger, secoue ton sommeil profond
Michel Corrette
Symphonie des Noëls No. 4 in d minor
Michel-Richard Delalande (1657-1726)
Trois Noëls en trio, from S. 173
Symphonies des Noëls, S. 130, No. 1
ARTISTS
Clavecin en Concert Instrumental Ensemble; Luc Beauséjour, harpsichord & Director
Hugo Laporte, baritone; Michel Angers, theorbo
Recorded live in concert Sunday, December 9, 2018 at L’Église de La Visitation-du-Sault-au-Récollet, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PART TWO
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 147: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Magnificat in E-Flat, BWV 243a
ARTISTS
Martina Daxböck, Barbara Zidar-Willinger; soprano
Anna Kargl; contralto
Friedolin Obersteiner; altus
Johannes Bamberger; tenor
Stefan Zenkl; bass
Neue Hofkapelle Graz & the Choir of Sankt Pölten Cathedral; Otto Kargl, conductor
Recorded live in concert Saturday, December 8, 2018 at the Cathedral of Sankt Pölten, Austria