CD 30
Music from Stams Monastery VIII
Fatschenkindl (Baby Jesus in swaddling clothes), Stams Monastery Museum
The Tyrolean Christmas concerts first started at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in 1994 (CD 24). The initiator of this musical novelty was the curator of the Ferdinandeum’s music collection. The overall idea was to present concert programs with a carefully considered selection and arrangement of mainly 18th- century Christmas music of significance, as documented in Tyrolean archives, and to make the acoustic reproduction of these concerts available to a larger audience on CDs. Thus these concerts are not musical events in the usual sense, where, as a rule, established ensembles perform their programs. Rather, they present discoveries that often did not take shape in sound until the thrilling rehearsal process. Before that, the music in the old surviving manuscript part books fi rst had to be adapted for modern use. This CD contains the complete program of the 1995 Christmas concert devoted mainly to music from the Cistercian monastery of Stams in the Tyrol. It was purposely conceived along the lines of a festive Christmas liturgy within the framework of the Christmas mass, but with an approach that was not too historicizing. The central focus is a Pastoral Mass by Johann Elias de Sylva. Interpolated in the sequence of this Christmas mass at the customary intervals are pieces such as the Graduale and Offertorium that do not actually belong to the ordinarium of the mass but round out the immanent drama in consistent fashion and, taken together, underline the program concept.
Track 19, 2:06
Quem vidistis, o pasores
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