Advent Anticipation #0649
Composers old and new create music of awe and expectation that preludes the Christmas festival.
JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS: Chorale-prelude, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme –Mathias Schmutzler, trumpet; Felix Friedrich (1755 Trost/Stadtkirche [Town Church], Waltershausen, Germany) Querstand CD-9809
JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS: Fantasia Number 1, Wachet auf –Michael Laird, trumpet; Peter Hurford (1898 Henry Willis; 1971 Hill, Norman & Beard; 1999 Nicholson/Gloucester Cathedral, England, UK) Argo 430 208
JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS: Fantasia Number 2, Wachet auf –Mathias Schmutzler, trumpet; Felix Friedrich (1739 Trost/Altenburg Castle Chapel, Germany) Motette CD MOT 20261
JENNIFER BATE: Variations on a Gregorian Theme, Conditor alme siderum –Jennifer Bate (1919 Henry Willis & Sons/Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales, UK) Guild GMCD 7209
MARIE RUBIS BAUER: People look east! –Choir of Christ Presbyterian, David Kienzle, conductor (1996 Schantz/Christ Presbyterian, Canton, OH) Pro Organo CD 2922
ROBERT EDWARD SMITH: Hymn-prelude, People look east! –Robert Gallagher (1995 Lively-Fulcher/Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, DC) World Library CD-3027
FRANK SPELLER: Advent Song –Ginny Clark, soprano; Frank Speller (1981 Visser-Rowland/Bates Recital Hall, University of Texas, Austin, TX) Pro Organo CD 7092
NICOLAUS BRUHNS: Chorale Fantasy, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland –Jan Willem Jansen (1981 Ahrend/Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France) Temperaments CD-316011
J.S. BACH: 3 Advent Chorale-preludes: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland S. 659a-661a –Olivier Vernet (1985 Ahrend/Jesuit Church, Porrentruy, Switzerland) Ligia Digital 0104046-97
JOSEPH AHRENS: Prelude, Conditor alme siderum –Joseph Ahrens (1955 Schuke/Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany) Christophorus CHR 77124
DAVID CHERWIEN: Chorale-fantasy, Of the Father’s Love Begotten –National Lutheran Choir, David Cherwien (2003 Reuter/St. Michael Lutheran Church, Bloomington, MN) National Lutheran Choir CD-1922
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Toccata on Conditor alme siderum, from Suite for the 3rd Sunday in Advent, Opus 55. Number 1, L’Orgue Mystique –Georges Delvallée (1880 Cavaillé-Coll/Cathédrale Sainte-Croix, Orleans, France) Accord CD-4761059
