A Christmas Tale with the Huelgas Ensemble and Paul Van Nevel
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (Conductor); Huelgas Ensemble; Poline Renou (soprano), Axelle Bernage (mezzo soprano), Achim Schulz (tenorino), Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Stefan Berghammer, Matthew Vine (tenors), Tim Scott Whiteley, Guillaume Olry (basses), Bart Coen (recorder), Peter De Clercq (recorder), Silke Jacobsen (recorder, tabor, flute & percussion), An Van Laethem (rebec, fiddle & renaissance violin), Susanne Braumann (viol); Mirabile Mysterium - A European Christmas Tale (1300-1850); 1. The birth in Bethlehem; Balaam de quo vaticinans (a 3) - anonymus, ca. 1300; Myrabile Mysterium (a 5) - Jacobus Gallus 1550-1591; Este ni?o que es sol del Aurora (a 2, 4 & 8) - Jerónimo Luca ca. 1630; Carol for Christmas-Eve (a 4), from Christmas Carols, London 1871; 2. The crime of Herodes; Hostis Herodes Impie (a 4) - Anonymus, ca. 1320; Interrogabat Magos Herodes (a 4) - Jean Mouton ca.1459-1522; Vox in Rama (a 5) - Giaches de Wert 1535-1596; A voice from Ramah was there sent (a 4) - B. Luard Selby (England, 19th Century); 3. The travel of the three Kings Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar (Le voyage des trois rois mages); Vincti Presepio (a 3) - Anonymus, ca. 1300; Reges Terrae (a 6) - Pierre de Manchicourt, ca.1510-1564; Ab Oriente (a 5) - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 1562-1621; Drei Könige (a 5) - Peter Cornelius, 1824-1874; 4. Epilogue; Quae stella sole pulchrior (a 1 & 4) - Anonymus, ca. 1300; Dexen que Llore mi Ni?o (a 1, 4 & 8) - António Marques Lésbio, 1639-1709; Recorded on December 23, 2014 at the Saint Augustine Church, Antwerp, Belgium (62 min)
