Description
Johannes Eccard's Christmas Double Choir O Freude über Freud is included as number 9 in the edition "First Part of the Prussian Festival Songs, from Advent to Easter, with 5.6.8 votes". The first edition of this print was published in 1642 by Wendelin Bodenhausen in Elbing. The text is attributed to Georg Reiman.
Originally intended as a vocal movement, this double choir can also be performed vocally/instrumentally or purely instrumentally with recorders (SSAB/ATTB), viols da gamba or other melody instruments. A cast in the Broken Consort, in which, for example, the first choir can be played with recorders and the second choir with strings.
The edition is accompanied by elaborately designed exercise material (recordings of all individual parts), which is Download area of this issuecan be heard.