Vivaldi / Hasse / Perotti / Golinska / Akakpo - Venetian Christmas - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Christmas with Bach Gerhard Löffler, the organist at the Church of St. James in Hamburg, has selected this title for his MDG debut. And to it we may add InchAnd with Arp Schnitger.Inch After all, Schnitger's masterpiece of organ design in St. James is not only the largest instrument by this Northern German organ builder, whose death three hundred years ago is being commemorated in 2019, but also has what qualifies as the most important extant original pipework from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With these resources it very much makes it's presence felt in the music and interpretation. And when captured in magnificent three-dimensional sound on this Super Audio album, it is guaranteed to spread the Christmas spirit throughout the year.

Soprano Theresa Nelles and cathedral organist Winfried Bönig invite us to an atmospheric Christmas Eve in Cologne Cathedral and present a varied programme of Romantic works from various countries music for the feast that goes straight to the heart. The great acoustics of Cologne Cathedral have been deliberately captured on this audiophile SACD. Born in Cologne, Theresa Nelles has had close ties with Cologne Cathedral since childhood, not only emotionally but also musically. During her 10 years of choir membership in the girls' choir at Cologne Cathedral, she already received her first solo tasks, was also the singer of a jazz band of the so called Cathedral-music for a long time and, after her High school graduation, studied singing at the Cologne Academy of Music with Prof. Mechthild Georg and in Rome at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia. She attended master classes with Krisztina Laki, Kurt Widmer, Ingeborg Danz and others and continues to work closely with Prof. Michaela Krämer in Düsseldorf. Engagements take the singer to festivals at home and abroad, such as the Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra in Italy, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Russia, the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, the Beethoven Festival Bonn, the Brühl Castle Concerts, to opera houses such as Krefeld/ Mönchengladbach, Koblenz, Gelsenkirchen, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Cologne and Essen Philharmonics and, last but not least, regularly to large churches, always particularly fond of the local cathedral. Details 1. Weihnachten (Adelheid Wette) 2. Cantique de Noël 3. Pavane Op. 50 4. Stern von Betlehem (Hedwig Humperdinck) 5. Christkindleins Wiegenlied (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) 6. Livre de Noëls, Op. 60~Offertoire No. 2 sur les Noëls 7. Ave Maria 8. Entre le bœuf et l'âne gris 9. Communion sur un Noël 10. Schlafendes Jesu

Works for and about Christmas can be found on the latest recording by La Fenice, under the direction of Jean Tubery. In over twenty years at the forefront of the national and international scene, the Ensemble La Fenice has emerged as an eminent specialist in seventeenth century music, and it's cosmopolitan musicians take pride in representing the ensemble throughout Europe. This recording shows how the birth of Jesus Christ inspired the creation of works of art that illustrate or narrate the Holy Scriptures.