Harmonia Stellarum Houston
Mario Aschauer, artistic director

Ensemble

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger’s Pastori di Bettelemme constitutes one of the earliest Christmas oratorios in music history, composed for a performance on Christmas Eve 1629 in the Apostolic Palace in Rome. We pair it with the first American performance of the anonymous Historia von der Gebuhrt Christi from 1686, today in the Saxon State Library Dresden.