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CHRISTMAS MASS (Praetorius) Versailles 2017 Gabrieli Consort and Players
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Christmas Mass
- Composer: Praetorius
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Chapella royale, Versailles, France
- Recorded: December 8 2017
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Gabrieli Consort and Players
- Conductor: Paul McCreesh
- Orchestra: Gabrieli Consort and Players
- Chorus: Gabrieli Consort and Players
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: mezzo
- Date Published: 2017
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Michael Praetorius, active from 1590 to 1621, was the most fertile German composer of his generation. At the beginning of the 17th century, he created exceptional music, which became prevalent in all North Germany, because of its very modern style and melodies very inspired by Italian models. The music for this Mass for Christmas Morning is based on Lutheran tradition, where the assembly take an active part in the musical ceremony, notably for the grand chorales, directly taken from Luther’s corpus. The music is also cleverly designed to enable children’s choirs and amateur ones to take part in the interpretation of the score, to create an extraordinary musical communion.