Flanders Boys Choir; Dieter Van Handenhoven & Ensemble
Description
In the musical history of the Southern Netherlands during the 17th century, Christmas music was a genre in its own right. This is mainly thanks to the Brotherhood of our Lady of the Antwerp Cathedral, where in around 1600, the custom arose of lighting up the daily Mary prayers during the Christmas period not only with Marian motets, but also with carols.
As early as 1604, this repertoire appeared in print, titled Laudes Vespertinae; its contents were mainly Marian hymns but complemented with Latin carols. Later reprints added more Christmas music which grew systematically.
This evolution led the music publisher Phalesius to print separate publications with carols, entitled Cantiones Natalitiae from the mid-1640's onwards which culminated in about sixteen volumes being published by the end of the 17th century.
This new recording celebrates the style changes from the earlier works which were still in a homophonic Renaissance style, to the more progressive generation of composers from the middle of the century who embraced the new Baroque style with solo voices accompanied by basso continuo with participation of solo instruments.
Tracklisting
Yarno Missiaen
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Jiska Lambrecht (violin), Marco Sanna (piano)
Werner Van Mechelen, Sylvie Decramer
Keigo Mukawa
Gauguin Ensemble
Michel Strauss, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden
Elena Marangou, Yorgos Ziavras
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
Frieder Bernius, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
