Praeambulum in F Major, WV 39
Allan Rasmussen
In Dulci Jubilo: Music for the Christmas Season by Buxtehude & Friends
When Paul Hillier, an inspiring, English-born choral conductor, moved to Denmark in 2003, he re-established his choir, Theatre of Voices, in his new country, and they’ve gone from strength to strength. This wonderful programme is themed around the Advent star and the great burst of light that Christmas brings to the year’s darkest months. The German-Danish composer Dietrich Buxtehude and some of his German contemporaries provide the fare for this delightful celebration of Christmas, late 17th-century style. Allan Rasmussen intersperses the choral numbers with solo organ pieces, making for an engrossing album of high-class music-making, superbly recorded in Copenhagen’s Garnisonskirken.
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, Jesenka Balic Zunic, Paul Hillier, Else Torp, Fredrik From, Allan Rasmussen
Merk auf, mein Herz, BWV Anh. 163 (Attrib. J.S. Bach)
Mattias Frostenson, Paul Bentley-Angell, Jane Gower, Kristin Mulders, Kate Browton, Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, Steffen Bruun, Else Torp, Johan Linderoth, Mark Chambers, Paul Hillier, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Theatre of Voices, Allan Rasmussen
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211
Allan Rasmussen
Fürchtet euch nicht, BuxWV 30
Else Torp, Jane Gower, Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, Fredrik From, Allan Rasmussen, Paul Hillier, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Jesenka Balic Zunic
Pastores Dicite Quidnam Vidistis
Kate Browton, Steffen Bruun, Jesenka Balic Zunic, Johan Linderoth, Mattias Frostenson, Fredrik From, Allan Rasmussen, Paul Hillier, Paul Bentley-Angell
Fuga in G Minor
Allan Rasmussen
Das neugeborne Kindelein, BuxWV 13
Paul Hillier, Fredrik From, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Mattias Frostenson, Allan Rasmussen, Else Torp, Kanerva Juutilainen, Jane Gower, Mark Chambers, Paul Bentley-Angell, Jesenka Balic Zunic
Ein kleines Kindelein
Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, Fredrik From, Allan Rasmussen, Kanerva Juutilainen, Mattias Frostenson, Paul Hillier, Jesenka Balic Zunic, Kate Browton
In Dulci Jubilo, BuxWV 52
Fredrik From, Allan Rasmussen, Else Torp, Paul Hillier, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, Jesenka Balic Zunic, Mark Chambers
Praeambulum in D Minor, WV 35
Allan Rasmussen
Jesu Dulcis Memoria, BuxWV 57
Mark Chambers, Paul Hillier, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Jane Gower, Jesenka Balic Zunic, Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, Paul Bentley-Angell, Fredrik From, Allan Rasmussen, Mattias Frostenson
Rex Virtutum
Paul Hillier, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Jane Gower, Fredrik From, Allan Rasmussen, Jesenka Balic Zunic, Mattias Frostenson
Sweelinck: Cantiones Sacrae, RISM S7252
No. 3, Ab Oriente Venerunt Magi, SwWV 153
Kate Browton, Else Torp, Mark Chambers, Allan Rasmussen, Paul Hillier, Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Paul Bentley-Angell
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223
Allan Rasmussen