Schütz: The Christmas story & other works
Yale Schola Cantorum, David Hill (conductor)
CDA68315
Schütz’s ‘Christmas story’ is an absolute delight from beginning to end, its charming tableaux of angels, shepherds and wise men completely belying the composer’s old age and constrained circumstances. Here it’s the jubilant climax to a programme of Christmas motets from the 1640s.