Weser-Renaissance Bremen & Manfred Cordes - Tobias Zeutschner: Weihnachtshistorie (2021)

"The WESER-RENAISSANCE ensemble had two goals in mind in its concert series 'Breslau – A City in the Heart of Europe': the first was to offer musical enjoyment and the second was to remember an old cultural environment that had been forgotten for many decades. The music manuscripts and printed editions discovered in the Berlin State Library attest to the great diversity and high quality of music culture in what was once the capital of Silesia. 'Die Geburt unsers Herrn and Heylands Jesu Christi' (The Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ), a Christmas narrative by Tobias Zeutschner, who was active at Breslau’s principal churches St. Bernhardin and St. Mary Magdalene, forms the focus of the present selection from these sources in a program entitled 'Weihnachten im Breslau des 17. Jahrhunderts – Festmusik in der Kirche St. Maria Magdalena« (Christmas in Seventeenth-Century Breslau – Festive Music in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene). This early example of a Biblical history composition is richly scored for eighteen voices."
Tracklist
1. Ehre sey Gott allein à 12 (4:51)
2. Hosianna Filio David à 6 - Die Geburthunsers HERRN à 18 (6:15)
3. Sinfonia Chorus Halleluja (4:46)
4. Die Geburt war aber also getan (8:32)
5. Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe (6:28)
6. Sinfonia Chorus Halleluja (6:03)
7. Es ist kein ander Heyl à 6 (6:17)
8. Ecce nunc benedicite à 3 (3:48)
9. Halleluja - Gelobet seystu JC à 15 - Magnificat cum rotulis à 18 (7:19)
10. Magnificat - Tret't hinzu Ihr Kindelein (2:55)
11. Quia fecit mihi magna - Joseph lieber Joseph (3:29)
12. Fecit potentiam - Singt und klingt (2:03)
13. Esurientes implevit bonis - In Dulci Jubilo (1:50)
14. Sicut locutus est - Joseph! Was da (3:35)
15. Gloria patri - Ehre sei Gott (3:28)