Mirabile Mysterium
2014 | Sony Music | Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
CD info
The Christmas story and the powerful images evoked by the narration of the birth in the stable, the exotic appearance of the Magi from the Orient and the shepherds' bucolic visit have been a source to the world's imagination throughout history. The Huelgas Ensemble explores the fascinating and colourful repertoire by composers of five centuries reaching from the Franco-Flemish Renaissance polyphony to English Christmas Carols and Spanish Villancicos.
Tracks
Anonymus (ca.1300) : Balaam de quo vaticinans (à 3)
Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591) : Myrabile Mysterium (à 5)
Jeronimo Luca (ca.1630) : Este Nino que es sol del Aurora (à 2, 4 & 8)
Anonymus (1871) : A carol for Christams eve (à 4)
Anonymus (ca.1320) : Hostis Herodes impie (à 4)
Jean Mouton (ca.1459-1522) : Interrogabat Magos Herodes (à 4)
Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) : Vox in Rama (à 5)
Bertram Luard-Selby (1853-1918) : A voice from Ramah was there sent (à 4)
Anonymous (ca.1300) : Vincti presepio (à 3)
Pierre de Manchicourt (ca.1510-1564) : Reges Terrae (à 6)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) : Ab Oriente (à 5)
Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) : Drei Könige wandern (à 5)
Breviary of Paris (1736) : Quae stella sole pulchrior (à 1 & 4)
Antonio Marques Lesbio (1639-1709) : Dexen que llore mi nino (à 1, 4 & 8)