Baerenreiter Verlag Europaische Barockmusik zur Weihnachtszeit (European Baroque Music at Christmas Time) - Schweizer - Recorders/Basso Continuo - Score/Parts

Neun Kompositionen fur Blockflten und Basso continuo (Nine compositions for recorders and basso continuo)

Composers: Various
Editor: Rolf Schweizer
Format: Performance Score, Set of Parts
Instrumentation: Descant Recorder, Treble Recorder, Piano/Harpsichord, Basso continuo

Leipzig, London, Salzburg, Paris, Dresden, and Rome are the European music centres from which these Christmas season compositions come. Pastoral music for two recorders is popular, and this edition meets the desire for high-quality music for these widely used instruments. With empathy and skill, the editor, an experienced practitioner as a cantor and leader of instrumental groups, selected the pieces, transposed them, and arranged them for this instrumentation.

Contents:

• Vorwort
• Aria Pastorella - Valentin Rathgeber
• Aria Pastorella "Das freudige Herbeieilen der Hirten" - Valentin Rathgeber
• Choralkonzert "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allegleich" - Johann Hermann Schein
• Pifa "Hirtenmusik" - Georg Friedrich Handel
• Musette "Quoy ma voisine est tu" - Michel Corette
• Concerto "Dulce somnium" Sonata, Sarabande, Aria - Georg Muffat
• Pastorale "Per la Notte della Nativitate Christi" - Johann David Heinichen
• Choralkonzert "Herr, Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf" (Lobgesang des Simeon) - Johann Gottfried Walther
• Sonata da chiesa, Allegro - Arcangelo Corelli