Christmas in Rome

Christmas in Rome
Weihnachten in Rom - Noël à Rome - Natale a Roma
Gabrieli Consort & Players - Paul McCreesh, dir.
Choir of the English Concert & The English Concert - Trevor Pinnock, dir.
Pifferari
Archiv 440 072 247-1 [Laserdisc]
Archiv ??? [VHS]
Archiv 00992809 [DVD]

Contents:

Side 1

    Gabrieli Consort & Players - Paul McCreesh
  1. Tu scendi dalle stelle (trad.)
    (Livio di Fiori, Giuliano Penta - pifferi; Dino Ricci - zampogna)
  2. Nell'apparir del sempiterno sole (Giovanni Francesco Anerio, c.1567-163)
    (Susan Hemington Jones, Sarah Pendlebury - sopranos; Angus Smith - tenor)
  3. O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
  4. Missa "Hodie Christus natus est": Kyrie (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 1535/26-1594)
  5. Canzona detta la Bianchina (Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643)
    (Rachel Podger - violin; Jeremy West - cornett; Paula Chateauneuf - chitarrone; Hannelore Devaere - harp; Timothy Rogers - organ)
  6. Missa "Hodie Christus natus est": Gloria (Palestrina)
  7. Quem vidistis, pastores? (Victoria)
  8. O Jesu mi dulcissime (Frescobaldi)
    (Angus Smith - tenor; Paula Chateauneut - chitarrone)
  9. Exulta, gaude (Iacomo Carissimi, 1605-1674)
    (Susan Hemington Jones, Sarah Pendlebury - sopranos; Paula Chateauneuf - chitarrone; Hannelore Devaere - harp; Timothy Rogers - organ)
  10. Praeter rerum seriem (Josquin Desprez, c.1440-1521)
  11. Hodie Christus natus est (Palestrina)

    12. O di Betlemme altera (Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660-1725)
    (Nancy Argenta - soprano; Peter Hanson, Walter Reiter - violins; Trevor Jones - viola; Jane Coe - violoncello; Peter McCarthy - double bass)
  12. Introduzione (Allegro)
  13. Recitativo: O di Betlemme altera
  14. Aria: Dal bel seno d'una stella (Andante)
  15. Recitativo: Presa d'uomo la forma
  16. Aria: L'autor d'ogni mio bene (Andante)
  17. Recitativo: fortunati pastori!
  18. Pastorale: Toccò la prima sorte a voi, pastori

Side 2

    Choir of the English Concert & The English Concert - Trevor Pinnock
    Concerto grosso in G minor, "Christmas Concerto" (Arcangelo Corelli, 1653-1713)
  1. Vivace - Grave
  2. Allegro
  3. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio
  4. Vivace
  5. Allegro
  6. Largo
    7. Gloria (Antonio Vivaldi, 1678-1741)
  7. Gloria in excelsis deo (Allegro)
  8. Et in terra pax hominibus (Andante)
  9. Laudamus te (Allegro)
    (Jennifer Smith, Nancy Argenta - sopranos)
  10. Gratias agimus tibi (Adagio)
  11. Propter magnam gloriam tuam (Allegro)
  12. Domine Deus, Rex caelestis (Largo)
    (Jennifer Smith - soprano; Paul Goowin - oboe)
  13. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
    (Catherine Wyn Rogers - contralto)
  14. Qui tollis peccata mundi (Adagio)
  15. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Allegro)
    (Catherine Wyn Rogers - contralto)
  16. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus (Allegro)
  17. Cum Sancto Spiritu (Allegro)

Playing time: 102' 00"

Performers:
Gabrieli Consort
Sopranos: Susan Hemington Jones, Sarah Pendlebury
Falsettists: Robert Harre-Jones, Jonathan Peter Kenny
Tenors: Mark le Brocq, Angus Smith, Robert Horn, Gerard O'Beirne
Baritones: Simon Davies, Robert Evans, Henry Wickham, Laurence Whitehead
Basses: Christopher Purves, Richard Savage, Julian Clarkson, Charles Gibbs
Gabrieli Players
Violin: Rachel Podger
Cornett: Jeremy West
Chitarrone: Paula Chateauneuf
Harp: Hannelore Devaere
Organs: Timothy Roberts, James Johnstone
Choir of the English Concert
Sopranos: Caroline Ashton, Rachel Bevan, Carol Hall, Twig Hall, Lucinda Houghton, Rachel Platt
Altos: Jacqueline Connell, Penny Vickers, Angus Davidson, Wilfrid Swansborough
Tenors: Andrew Carwood, Simon Davies, Nicolas Robertson, Paul Tindall
Basses: Stephen Alder, Jeremy Birchall, Christopher Foster, Lawrence Wallington
The English Concert
Violin I: Peter Hanson, Miles Golding, Graham Cracknell, Alison Bury, Fiona Huggett
Violin II: Walter Reiter, Jullia Bishop, Maurice Whitaker, Clare Salaman
Violas: Trevor Jones, Jane Rogers
Violoncellos: Jane Coe, Timothy Kraemer
Double bass: Peter McCarthy
Oboe: Paul Goodwin
Bassoon: Alberto Grazzi
Trumpet: Mark Bennett
Theorbo: Bill Carter
Organs: Nicholas Parle, Trevor Pinnock
Harpsichord: Trevor Pinnock

Recording site and date:
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy [1992];
Rel.: 1993 (Laserdisc, VHS), 2007 (DVD) 1993

Excerpts:
[2]-[11] Archiv 437833 Christmas in Rome

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 31/5-372 (May/June 2008)

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge