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Heinrich Schutz continued to set himself challenges throughout his long career. Of all the genres of sacred music that he undertook, the oratorio offers us his most contrasting ideas. His Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi (1664) is in many respects the model for the genre that would later be employed by the musicians of Johann Sebastian Bach's generation; the score that Vox Luminis use for this recording has been reconstructed from manuscript sources in the Duben Collection in Uppsala. The album is completed with a number of particularly festive motets for the Christmas period by Heinrich Schutz and his illustrious contemporary Andreas Hammerschmidt. Album Tracks 6. Magnificat SWV 468 10. Historia der freuden-und gnadenreichen Geburth Gottes und Marien Sohnes, Jesu Christi SWV 435~Fürchtet euch nicht 14. Historia der freuden-und gnadenreichen Geburth Gottes und Marien Sohnes, Jesu Christi SWV 435~Lasset uns nun gehen
