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Track(s) taken from CDA66200

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

composer
1618/9; Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica, Wolfenbüttel
author of text

Westminster Cathedral Choir, The Parley of Instruments, David Hill (conductor)
Recording details: January 1986
Westminster Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: January 1987
Total duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds

Cover artwork: The Marriage of St Catherine of Siena (altarpiece detail). Lorenzo (d1503)
Reproduced by permission of The Trustees, The National Gallery, London
 

Other recordings available for download

The King's Singers
Queen's College Choir Oxford, Owen Rees (conductor)

Reviews

‘Well crafted music, sensitively performed and recorded’ (Gramophone)

‘Exciting and highly enjoyable’ (The Good CD Guide)

‘A delightful record’ (Organists' Review)

‘My favourite ever Christmas recording. Lovely music, done with affection and great sympathy’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘A glorious early Baroque Christmas treat’ (Harmonia)
Praetorius’s published collections demonstrate his commitment to providing settings of chorales and other traditional melodies in a broad spectrum of styles from grand and complex to simple four-part chordal harmonisations. The latter end of the spectrum is represented in the sixth volume of his Musæ Sioniæ series (1609), which includes Philipp Nicolai’s Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (known to English-speaking audiences as ‘How brightly shines the morning star’).

from notes by Owen Rees © 2020

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A Ceremony of Carols
Studio Master: SIGCD627Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
Christmas with the King's Singers
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