Christmas Oratorio

Album by Camille Saint‐Saëns & Verena Schweizer & Edith Wiens & Helena Jungwirth & Friedreich Melzer & Kurt Widmer & Bachchor Mainz & Bachorchester Mainz & Diethard Hellmann

Christmas Oratorio (Oratorio de Noël) is an oratorio by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, composed in 1858. The work is scored for soloists, choir and orchestra and blends liturgical text with Romantic-era harmony and orchestral colour, reflecting Saint-Saëns's early engagement with sacred choral forms and marking a formative stage in his compositional development.
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  1. 1.
    Christmas Oratorio: Prelude (in the style of Seb. Bach)
    3:16
  2. 2.
    Christmas Oratorio: Recitative and Chorus: Et pastores erant – Gloria
    5:48
  3. 3.
    Christmas Oratorio: Aria: Expectans expectavi Dominum
    4:08
  4. 4.
    Christmas Oratorio: Aria and Chorus: Domine, ego credidi
    4:02
  5. 5.
    Christmas Oratorio: Duet: Bendedictus qui venit
    4:03
  6. 6.
    Christmas Oratorio: Chorus: Quare fremuerunt gentes
    4:00
  7. 7.
    Christmas Oratorio: Trio: Tecum principium
    4:24
  8. 8.
    Christmas Oratorio: Quartet: Alleluja
    2:15
  9. 9.
    Christmas Oratorio: Quintet and Chorus: Consurge, Filia Sion
    5:29
  10. 10.
    Christmas Oratorio: Chorus: Tollite hostias
    2:17

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