Schütz: The Christmas story & other works
Yale Schola Cantorum, David Hill
The Yale Schola Cantorum comprises roughly 30 singers and a dozen instrumentalists, but they sound light and bright nonetheless. They make a fine impression in the opening Hodie Christus natus...
Schütz: The Christmas story & other works
Yale Schola Cantorum, David Hill
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The Yale Schola Cantorum comprises roughly 30 singers and a dozen instrumentalists, but they sound light and bright nonetheless. They make a fine impression in the opening Hodie Christus natus...
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Schütz’s ‘Christmas story’ is an absolute delight from beginning to end, its charming tableaux of angels, shepherds and wise men completely belying the composer’s old age and constrained circumstances. Here it’s the jubilant climax to a programme of Christmas motets from the 1640s.
Contents and tracklist
- Haitham Haidar (tenor), James Reese (tenor)
- Yale Schola Cantorum
- David Hill
- Bradley Sharpe (countertenor), Addy Sterrett (soprano)
- Yale Schola Cantorum
- David Hill
- Emilia Donato (soprano), Addy Sterrett (soprano), Ashley Mulcahy (mezzo-soprano), Haitham Haidar (tenor), James Reese (tenor), Edward Vogel (baritone)
- Yale Schola Cantorum
- David Hill
- Emilia Donato (soprano), Bradley Sharpe (countertenor), Haitham Haidar (tenor), Edward Vogel (baritone)
- Yale Schola Cantorum
- David Hill
- James Reese (tenor), Addy Sterrett (soprano), Bradley Sharpe (countertenor), Ashley Mulcahy (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lee (tenor), Will Doreza (bass), Haitham Haidar (tenor), Edward Vogel (baritone), Charles Littlewood (bass), Matt Sullivan (baritone)
- Yale Schola Cantorum
- David Hill
No 04. Rezitativ. Und alsbald war da bei dem Engel die Menge der himmlischen Heerscharen (Evangelist)
Track length0:18
Awards and reviews
December 2019
The Yale Schola Cantorum comprises roughly 30 singers and a dozen instrumentalists, but they sound light and bright nonetheless. They make a fine impression in the opening Hodie Christus natus est, and the choir’s interventions are among the most telling on this CD...Hill’s sense of shaping and narrative sweep is equally positive but cannot really compensate for the set’s major drawback, the unevenness of the soloists.
December 2019
Yale University’s Schola Cantorum sing and play like seasoned professionals, and Hyperion’s documentation is excellent.
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