Holiday Concert
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 8:00pm
• A favorite with concert-goers and the most requested! Always a beautiful evening of song!
• 2009 Gramophone Award Winners for Early Music with their CD, Song of Songs
• Performing music from their latest recording, A Wondrous Mystery
A Wondrous Mystery
Stile Antico’s Christmas program is a delightful mixture of the formal and the informal, of sophisticated polyphony and folk-like dances. Alongside a glorious, richly scored Christmas mass by the Flemish composer Clemens non Papa, Stile Antico performs traditional old-German carols and motets, many of them still familiar today. Amongst the highlights are Eccard’s infectiously joyful Übers Gebirg Maria geht and Praetorius’ double-choir Magnificat, which includes the carols In dulci jubilo and Josef lieber, Josef mein. Based on the same Josef lieber melody, and neatly joining the two strands of the program, is Resonet in laudibus by the Flemish-born, German-resident master Orlandus Lassus. An irresistibly festive performance!
Michael Praetorius/Melchior Vulpius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Pastores quidnam vidistis
Johannes Eccard: Ubers Gebirg Maria geht
Jacob Handl (Gallus): Canite tuba
Clemens non Papa: Kyrie (Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis)
Hieronymous Praetorius: Magnificat quinti toni
Clemens non Papa: Gloria (Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis)
Eccard: Vom Himmel hoch
Clemens non Papa: Credo (Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis)
Handl (Gallus): Mirabile misterium
Michael Praetorius: Ein Kind geboren in Bethlehem
Clemens non Papa: Sanctus & Benedictus (Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis)
Hans Leo Hassler: Hodie Christus natus est
Clemens non Papa: Agnus Dei (Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis)
Orlandus Lassus: Resonet in laudibus