Ensemble Fama: Christmas in Augsburg - 17th Century Music
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Genres
Baroque Period
Christmas
Renaissance
Formats
CD
Usages
School and Community

SKU: NX.PN-1802

By Ensemble Fama. By Hans Leo Hassler, Johann Erasmus Kindermann, and Thomas Eisenhuet. Classical. CD. Naxos #PN 1802. Published by Naxos (NX.PN-1802).

A festive Christmas concert of motets, songs and instrumental settings, telling about the coming Saviour and his birth. A 17th century Christmas night in Augsburg. It is part and parcel of the close relationship to Augsburg shared by all of the featured composers that the concerns of both Christian faiths, the Catholic and the Protestant, are taken into account in their music. The music as such was considered to be above and beyond denomination. The music's striving for harmony overcomes all human conflict with the promise of the eternal peace of Christmas, disclosed by the angel's hymn of the biblical Annuciation: Et in terra pax hominibus .