This hour features two new, special CDs with Christmas music: ‘Bach Magnificat’ performed by La Chapelle Harmonique led by Valentin Tournet and the CD ‘Un Niño nos es nasçido’ of the Phoenix Munich Ensemble led by Joel Frederiksen.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
1. Cantata “Christen, ätzet diesen Tag”, BWV 63
Marie Perbost, soprano. Eva Zaïcik, mezzo-soprano. Thomas Hobbs, tenor. Stephan MacLeod, bass. La Chapelle Harmonique led by Valentin Tournet
(CD Bach Magnificat, Château de Versailles Spectacles CV5009, 2019)
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
2. O magnum mysterium
Anonymous (Venice, 1556)
3. From Cancionero de Uppsala: Un niño nos es nasçido
Bartolomé Cárceres (fl.1550)
4. La Trulla
Phoenix Munich Ensemble led by Joel Frederiksen
(CD Un Niño nos es nasçido – A Child for Us Is Born, DHM 19075802592, 2018)
