Schütz - Historia der geburt Jesu Christi

Album by Heinrich Schütz & Schola Cantorum Bruxelliensis & Louis Devos

Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi is a sacred historia by German composer Heinrich Schütz, first published in 1660. The work sets the Nativity narrative in an early Baroque German concertato and recitative style with vocal soloists, small choral passages and continuo accompaniment, and it is one of Schütz's later sacred narrative compositions that illustrates his concentrated dramatic approach within Protestant sacred music.
First released: 1986

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Sinfonia
    1:19
  2. 2.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium I (Der Engel)
    6:44
  3. 3.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium II (Die Menge der Engel)
    2:26
  4. 4.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium III (Hirten)
    2:00
  5. 5.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium IV (Weisen)
    4:49
  6. 6.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium V (Hohenpriester)
    3:07
  7. 7.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium VI (Herodes)
    2:33
  8. 8.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium VII (Der Engel)
    4:30
  9. 9.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Intermedium VIII (Der Engel)
    5:12
  10. 10.
    Weihnachtshistorie SWV 435: Rezitativ / Beschluss (Chor)
    4:25
  11. 11.
    Motette: "Also aht Gott die Welt geliebt", SWV 380
    2:10
  12. 12.
    Motette: "Ein Kind ist uns geboren", SWV 384
    2:49
  13. 13.
    Motette: "Das Wort ward Fleisch", SWV 385
    3:09