{"id":372,"date":"2011-07-01T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2011-07-01T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T17:28:08","slug":"schutz-the-christmas-oratorio-conducted-by-hans-thamm-renaissance-christmas-choral-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Sch\u00fctz: The Christmas Oratorio conducted by Hans Thamm &#8211; Renaissance Christmas Choral Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CMAS-003-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-373\" title=\"CMAS-003-cover\" src=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CMAS-003-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CMAS-003-cover.jpg 569w, http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CMAS-003-cover-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CMAS-003 (STEREO) &#8211; Sch\u00fctz: The Christmas Oratorio (1664) &#8211; Edith Mathis, Angel; Georg Jelden, Evangelist; Claus Ocker, Herod; Windsbach Boys&#8217; Choir\/Hans Thamm &#8211; Renaissance Choral Christmas Music: Selections by Desprez, Gallus (Handl), Andrea &amp; Giovanni Gabrieli, Sch\u00fctz, Walter, Gesius, Praetorius, Vulpius, and Scheidt<\/strong> &#8211; The Christmas Oratorio of Heinrich Sch\u00fctz was composed in 1664, when he was nearing 80 years old, and gradual deafness was driving him towards reclusion and spiritual introspection. It constitutes a perfect example of\u00a0 his mature genius, with its quasi-plainsong recitatives and its Baroque concerted numbers. It is performed with original instruments, and sung with perfection by the Windsbach Boys&#8217; Choir, and a trio of wonderful soloists, derived from an red leatherette-spine album, blue-label domestic Angel LP. The balance of the disc features three European choral groups performing familiar and not so familiar\u00a0 Renaissance choral works, taken from an early pressing Nonesuch LP from 1966.<\/p>\n<p>This was a &#8220;labor of love&#8221; disc; the Sch\u00fctz had some unique tracking problems (skips, the bane of LPs and collectors)\u00a0that I couldn&#8217;t solve when I first started working on it last year. I couldn&#8217;t release it for Christmas last year, and had to set it aside for other projects. I came back to it in early June this year, and with some judicious tracking adjustments with my Ortofon Super 10 cartridge along the way, I was able to record without skipping. The results may be heard on the <a href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/CMAS-003-sample.mp3\">CMAS-003-sample<\/a>. I hope you enjoy it. The disc may be found at <a title=\"Classical LPs and reel tapes restored and reissued on CD\" href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\" target=\"_blank\">Klassic Haus Restorations<\/a>, under the <a title=\"New Titles may be found at the bottom of the Choral\/Vocal page\" href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/Choral-Vocal.php\" target=\"_blank\">Choral\/Vocal<\/a> tab.<\/p>\n<p>Keep checking back; many more titles in the works for July 2011! &#8211; Cheers &#8211; Curt Timmons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMAS-003 (STEREO) &#8211; Sch\u00fctz: The Christmas Oratorio (1664) &#8211; Edith Mathis, Angel; Georg Jelden, Evangelist; Claus Ocker, Herod; Windsbach Boys&#8217; Choir\/Hans Thamm &#8211; Renaissance Choral Christmas Music: Selections by Desprez, Gallus (Handl), Andrea &amp; Giovanni Gabrieli, Sch\u00fctz, Walter, Gesius, Praetorius, Vulpius, and Scheidt &#8211; The Christmas Oratorio of Heinrich Sch\u00fctz was composed in 1664, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}