Michael Prætorius (1571-1621): Christmette (Christmas mass)
(Lutheran Mass for Christmas morning around 1620)

DGG Archiv 439 931-2 (1995)

version with English booklet:
DGG Archiv 439 250-2 (1995)


[1]Processional: "Christum wir sollen loben schon" (Lucas Osiander)3'14
[2]Introit: Puer natus in Bethlehem 7'29
[3]Kyrie (Missa gantz Teudsch) 4'31
[4]Gloria (Missa gantz Teudsch) 7'36
[5]Collect: "Der Herr sei mit Euch" 1'08
[6]Epistle: "So schreibt der heilig Propheten Jesajas" (chant)2'01
[7]Organ prelude: Præambulum (anon.) 1'09
[8]Gradual hymn: "Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her"4'03
[9]Gospel: "So schreibt der heilige Lukas" (chant)3'51
[10]Credo: "Wir glauben all an einen Gott" (Samuel Scheidt)5'12
[11]Organ prelude: "Resonet in laudibus" (anon.) 1'09
[12]Pulpit hymn: "Quem pastores laudavere" 4'36
[13]Sonata: Padouana à 5 (Johann Hermann Schein)3'05
[14]The Lord's Prayer, Words of Institution (chant)2'35
[15]Sanctus motet: "Jesaja dem Propheten das geschah"6'25
[16]Organ prelude: "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" (Samuel Scheidt)1'35
[17]Communion motet 1: "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"3'26
[18]Communion motet 2: "Uns ist ein Kindlein heut geborn"2'11
[19]Post-Communion: "Der Herr sei mit Euch" 1'19
[20]Benediction: "Der Herr segne dich und behüte dich"1'02
[21]Final hymn: "Puer nobis nascitur" 2'56
[22]Organ voluntary: "Nun lob mein Seel" 3'04
[23]Recessional: "In dulci jubilo" 5'23
total time: 79'00


Gabrieli Consort:

soprano: Constanze Backes*, Tessa Bonner*,Sally Dunkley, Susan Hemmington Jones*, Sarah Pendlebury*, Gillian Ross, Juliet Schiemann, Rosemary Tusa
tenor: Rodrigo del Pozo, Christopher Hogan, Robert Horn*, Mark Le Brocq*, Tom Philips*, Julian Podger*, Angus Smith*
baritone: Donald Greig
bass: Stephan Charlesworth*, Simon Grant*, Andrian Hutton, Raimund Nolte * (celebrant)
*=favoriti

Boys' Choir and Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral, supplemented by local amateur choirs

Gabrieli Players:

(violins, violas, T-violin, B-violin, violone, flutes, recorders, shawms, dulcians, rackets, crumhorns, cornets, mute cornets, sackbuts, trumpets, drums, theorbos, harps, positive organs, cathedral organ, regals, harpsichords and virginals)

Direction: Paul McCreesh

recording: October 1993, Roskilde Cathedral/DK