Camille Saint-Saens: Oratorio De Noel = Christmas Oratorio - Verena Schweizer, Edith Wiens, Helena Jungwirth, Friedreich Melzer, Kurt Widmer, Bachor & Bachorchester Mainz, Diethard Hellmann / Profil Audio CD 2005 / PH05023

UPC 881488502329

The Oratorio de Noël, Op. 12, by Camille Saint-Saëns, also known as his Christmas Oratorio, is a cantata-like work scored for soloists, chorus, organ, strings and harp. While an organist at La Madeleine, Saint-Saëns wrote the Christmas oratorio in less than a fortnight, completing it ten days before its premiere on Christmas 1858. The vocal score of this oratorio was prepared later by the composer and organist Eugene Gigout, a colleague of Saint-Saëns.

Tracklist:

1.  Prelude   3:16

     (Dans le style de Seb. Bach)

2.  Recit Et Choeur   5:47

     Et pastores erant/Gloria

3.  Air (2nd soprano)    4:08

     Expectans expectavi Dominum

4.  Air (tenor) Et Choeur   4:01

     Domine, ego credidi

5.  Duo (soprano, basso)   4:03

     Benedictus qui venit

6.  Choeur   3:59

     Quare fremuerunt gentes

7.  Trio (soprano, tenor, basso)   4:23

     Tecum principium

8.  Quatour (soprano, 2nd soprano, alto, basso)   2:14

     Alleluja

9.  Quintette et choeur   5:29

     Consurge, Filia Sion

10. Choeur   2:18

      Tollite hostias