Zeutschner - Weihnachtshistorie, Magnificat | CPO 5553682

Zeutschner - Weihnachtshistorie, Magnificat

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5553682

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 8th January 2021

Contents

About

The WESER-RENAISSANCE ensemble had two goals in mind in its concert series ‘Breslau – A City in the Heart of Europe’: the first was to offer musical enjoyment and the second was to remember an old cultural environment that had been forgotten for many decades. The music manuscripts and printed editions discovered in the Berlin State Library attest to the great diversity and high quality of music culture in what was once the capital of Silesia. Die Geburt unsers Herrn and Heylands Jesu Christi (The Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ), a Christmas narrative by Tobias Zeutschner, who was active at Breslau’s principal churches St Bernhardin and St Mary Magdalene, forms the focus of the present selection from these sources in a programme entitled ‘Weihnachten im Breslau des 17. Jahrhunderts – Festmusik in der Kirche St. Maria Magdalena’ (Christmas in Seventeenth-Century Breslau – Festive Music in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene). This early example of a Biblical history composition is richly scored for eighteen voices.

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