Track List

1. Heinrich Scheidemann | Preambulum in F Major

2. Christian Geist | Wie schön leuchtet der Morgerstern

3. Johann Christoph Bach | Merk auf, mein Herz

4. Dietrich Buxtehude | Nun komm der Heiden Heiland

5. Dietrich Buxtehude | Fürchtet euch nicht

6. Christian Geist | Pastores dicite quidnam vidistis

7. Johann Adam Reincken | Fuga in G minor

8. Dietrich Buxtehude | Das neugeborne Kindelein

9. Franz Tunder | Ein kleines Kindelein

10. Dietrich Buxtehude | In dulci jubilo

11. Heinrich Scheidemann | Preambulum in D minor

12. Dietrich Buxtehude | Jesu dulcis memoria

13. Matthias Weckmann | Rex virtutum

14. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck | Ab Oriente venerunt Magi

15. Dietrich Buxtehude | Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

In the gloomy sky of a winter’s night a bright star emerges and ignites Advent’s anticipation of the Nativity – the year moves towards the rebirth of light just at the time of greatest darkness. With evocative works by the Baroque master Dietrich Buxtehude and the circle of 17th-century northern German composers around him, Paul Hillier conducts his Grammy award-winning ensemble Theatre of Voices in a stimulating addition to the traditional Christmas repertoire.