The vocal ensemble Stimmwerck, supported by harp, lute and organ, has - with some scholarship - compiled a programme of music for Advent and Christmas from the time of the Reformation.

Starting with the Gregorian chant of the Catholic liturgy, the so-called "O Antiphons", which were sung to the Magnificat in the last days of Advent, and elaborate Latin motets, it presents the development of Protestant German song as set by Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt and Johann Hermann Schein.

Here are to be found old friends, the almost folksong-like next to wonderful treasures, which are produced for the first time with the crystal clear and beautiful vocal sound that one is used to from Stimmwerck.

Contents:
1. O Jesulein zart
2. O clavis David
3. Fit porta Christi pervia
4. Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder
5. O Adonai
6. Puer natus in Bethlehem
7. Gaude, gaude laetare
8. O rex gentium
9. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
10. Kaiser Augustus leget an
11. Den die Hirten lobten sehre
12. O Emmanuel
13. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
14. Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen
15. O Sapientia
16. Nox imminet
17. Dies est laetitia / Ein Kinderlein so löbelich
18. Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
19. Joseph, lieber Joseph mein (Lute solo)
20. O Oriens
21. Resonet in laudibus (Organ solo)
22. Christum wir sollen loben schon
23. Christum wir sollen loben schon (Organ solo)
24. Nun komm der Heiden Heyland
25. In dulci jubilo (Lute solo)
26. Virga Jesse
27. Vom Himmel hoch
28. O Radix Jesse
29. Als der gütige Gott
30. O admirabile commercium