16 November 2009

Nothing

gets me so psyched for Advent/Christmas season as listening to the Praetorius' Mass for Christmas Morning. Glorious. Simply glorious. So many favorites in it: Christum, Wir Sollen Loben Schon; Jesaja Dem Propheten; In Dulci Jubilo (Alpha est et O!)...not to mention the chanting of the collect, the readings, the Our Father and the Verba. All a bit of heaven on earth.

6 comments:

Sue said...

Wonderful! We just had a special Sunday afternoon worship festival to give thanks to God for his gifts to the church in Hayden, Handel, and Mendelssohn. What a grand and glorious celebration! Our lovely organ, several other instruments, choir handbells plus congregatonal singing. And a full church. Very inspirational.

tehazy said...

That is most certainly true. It's my Christmas Day listening pleasure.

Rev. Richard A. Heinz said...

Definitely! The Praetorius Christmas Mass is one of my all time favorites! Sometimes I play it during other seasons. (Shhh. Don't tell anyone.) :-)

Christopher Gillespie said...

PLUS, in addition to a great performance, its a great recording. It's my beef, I admit, but I'm perennially disappointed by the sonics of the "Lutheran" recordings out there.

Hieronymus Praetorius said...

You're all singin' my song! Devotees of this sort of recording should also take a look at this Amazon list:

http://www.amazon.com/lm/R3S7ZYNQDFWRZ/

Chris said...

Now that's how Lutheran music sounds! Too bad it's not done that way any more. A favorite CD of mine.