Christmas in Baroque Germany

The winners of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music bring audiences a new Christmas program this year: Christmas in Baroque Germany. The program features music by Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein, and other early 17th-century masters brought to glorious life by twelve singers, a five-part violin band, organ, theorbo, and the brilliant cornetts, sackbuts, and recorders of the Dark Horse Consort. These forces will be lead by Music Director Scott Metcalfe, one of North America’s leading specialists in repertoire of the 15th through 17th centuries, who was recently appointed as a Visiting Professor of Music History at the New England Conservatory in Boston.