Ton Koopman
Puer Nobis Nascitur
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917223422
- Catalog number CC 72234
- Release date 06 November 2006
About the album
If we had to characterise Christmas with one word, this word would be 'lyrical'. This quality constantly recurs in the polyphonic music that composers and church musicians of great fame and reputation have written for Christmas over the centuries. This is true above all in the Christmas music written for organ - the church music instrument par excellence. The selection here presented covers a period of two and a half centuries, from Sweelinck (1562-1621) and John Bull (1563-1626) to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and perfectly fits the instrument.
The Van Peteghem Organ in Haringe (Flanders) was built in 1778 and has, uniquely, been preserved intact as a rococo instrument. It is the climax of organ-building artistry of the Van Peteghem family, who enriched the Flemish organ scene with the best instruments of their kind and era. The Haringe organ is undoubtedly the best-preserved instrument from that period. It has never been rebuilt and its registers were never modernised in accordance with the prevailing tastes of intervening periods. Moreover, it has a wide- ranging and extremely varied disposition. The combination of all these elements makes this organ unique among Flemish historical organs, a fact that is recognised and appreciated by organists and organ lovers throughout the world. Between 1993 and 1994 the organ was restored by J.P. Draps and G. Potvlieghe under the supervision of the Belgian Department for Conservation. Ton Koopman (1944) studied organ (Simon C. Jansen), harpsichord (Gustav Leonhardt) and musicology in Amsterdam and was awarded the Prix d'Excellence for both instruments. As an organist he has performed on the most prestigious historical instruments of Europe, and as a harpsichord player and conductor of his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (founded 1979) & Choir (1993) he has been a regular guest at venues which include the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Philharmonie in Munich, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Lincoln Center in New York, and leading concert halls in Vienna, London, Berlin, Brussels, Sydney, Melbourne, Madrid, Rome, Salzburg, Tokyo and Osaka.
Ton Koopman edited the complete Handel Organ Concertos for Breitkopf & Härtel and will edit a number of Buxtehude works for Carus Verlag. He is president of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Society.
He recorded a.o. for Erato, Teldec, Sony, Philips and DGG. In 2003 he created Antoine Marchand, his own sub-label of Challenge Records. Here he publishes the Complete Bach Cantatas, as well as his other recent and future recordings, including a Complete Buxtehude project.
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11Noël Suisse (Noël XII)
03:37 -
12Quand Jésus naquit A Noël (Noël X)
05:56 -
13Adam fut un pauvre homme (Noël VI)
06:09 -
14Carol 'Een kindeken is ons geboren' (I)
02:02 -
15Ons is gheboren een kindekijn (Puer nobis naascitur)
03:27 -
16Noël de Saintogne
02:51 -
17Noël Poitevin
02:21 -
18Si c'est pour Oter la vie
02:57 -
19Adam fut un pauvre homme
03:39 -
110Pastorale
03:24 -
111Tiento sobra la letania de la Virgen
06:49 -
112Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 223)
06:17 -
113Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BuxWV 211)
02:09 -
114In dulci jubilo (BuxWV 197)
02:02 -
115Une Vierge Pucelle
01:52 -
116A la venue de Noël pour l'amour de Marie
01:31 -
117Noël pour l'amour de Marie
03:29 -
118Pastorale (BWV 590)
09:47 -
119In dulci jubilo (BWV 729)
02:08
Ton Koopman turns 75 and ABO 40 years anniversary
24-09-2019
Ton Koopman celebrates 75th birthday together with Johann Sebastian
The renowned Ton Koopman is celebrating its 75th birthday this fall. Koopman is one of the last great early music pioneers of the first hour. Still as energetic as 40 years ago, when he founded his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (ABO), he and his ensemble are celebrating the achievement of this crown year. At the concert on October 4 in the Muziekgebouw aan ...