A Christmas Tale – Mirabile Mysterium
About this event
“A prodigious mystery is revealed today. Natures are transformed. God is made man, he has remained that which he was and has taken on that which he was not, having endured neither comingling nor division.”
This is the beginning of Mirabile Mysterium, set to music by Jacobus Gallus from the section entitled ‘The Birth in Bethlehem’. It provides the subtitle to this Christmas programme for which Paul Van Nevel has made a fascinating selection of music ranging from the 14th to the 19th century – recorded at a church in Antwerp exclusively for the camera. The programme consists of ‘The Birth in Bethlehem’, ‘The Crime of Herodes’, ‘The Travel of the Three Kings’ and an Epilogue. Paul Van Nevel and his Huelgas have produced the ideal Christmas programme.
This stream is available to watch until December 31, 2022.
Programme
1. Concert – approx. 60 min programme
Repertoire
The Birth in Bethlehem
Balaam de quo vaticinans (à 3) anonymous, ca. 1300
Myrabile Mysterium (à 5) Jacobus Gallus, 1550 – 1591
Este niño que es sol del aurora (à 2, 4, & 9) Jerónimo Luca, ca. 1630
Carol for Christmas Eve (à 4) from: Christmas Carols, London 1871
The Crime of Herodes
Hostis Herodes Impie (à 4) anonymous, ca. 1320
Interrogabat Magos Herodes (à 4) Jean Mouton, ca. 1459 – 1522
Vos in Rama (à 5) Giaches de Wert, 1535 – 1596
A voice from Ramah was there sent (à 4) B. Luard Selby (Engeland, 19th Century)
The Travel of the Three Kings Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar
Vincti presepio (à 3) anonymous, ca. 1300
Reges terrae (à6) Pierre de Manchicourt, ca. 1510 – 1564
Ab oriente (à 5) Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 1562 – 1621
Drei Könige (à 5) Peter Cornelius, 1824 – 1874
Epilogue
Quae stella sole pulchrior (à 1 & 4) Breviary of Paris, 1736
Dexen que Llore mi Niño (à 1, 4 & 8) António Marques Lésbio, 1639 – 1709
The concert was filmed at AMUZ in Antwerp, Belgium.
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