Georg Friedrich Handel:
Excerpts from The Messiah
Exsultate, jubilate, KV 165

Arcangelo Corelli:
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6,8

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Ave verum corpus, KV 618
Laudate Dominum, KV 339

Leonard Schroter:
Ein Kindlein

Johann Stobaus:
Nun laßt uns mit den Engelein

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Ich steh‘ an deiner Krippen hier

Johannes Eccard:
O Freude über Freud’

Herbert Paulmichl:
Es hat sich halt eröffnet

Carl Thiel:
Adeste fideles

This recording retains the impact that is often lost during a broadcast of a performance. It’s the pre-Christmas programme from the Munich Sunday Concert Series featuring Helen Donath, one of the most distinguished lyric sopranos of her time, the Regensburg Cathedral Boys Choir (the Sparrows) and the Munich Radio Orchestra under the musical direction of Kurt Eichhorn.

On this special occasion, recorded live in 1988, the programme comprises excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8 Concerto per la notte di natale, Mozart’s motet Ave verum corpus, K. 618 and his Laudate Dominum from the Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339, a group of mostly 17th- and18thcentury Christmas carols performed a cappella by the Regensburg Cathedral Boys Choir (the Sparrows) and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165.

The recording is from the archives of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Recording: Philharmonie am Münchner Gasteig, 11. Dezember 1988 (Live). Re-release of sold-out live recording from the series of Munich Sunday concerts.