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Composer: SCHEIDEMANN, Johann Heinrich ((1595-1663)) |
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ID: ACDBO063-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
There are a number of recordings of the choral partita ‘Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig’ by Georg Böhm (1666-1733), including one on the great Arp Schnitger city organ in Hamburg (1693), 57 voices, beautifully played by Stef Tuinstra. The version heard here is played on Arp Schnitger’s smallest organ positiv, 8 voices, but it offers enough variation to register the 8 variations in a diverse manner. The suite in A Minor ‘Melpomene’ by Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (1665-1746) is taken from his Musikalischer Parnassus (1738). Melpomene was the muse of song and tragedy. The stylised dances are a slow Allemande, the fast Passepied, a Rondeau, alternately a refrain and a verse, a Chaconne, variations based on a descending series of 4 tones and finally a fast Gigue. The Fantasia on the hexachord Vt Re Mi Fa Sol La by Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) was already a famous work during his lifetime., Athenasius Kirchner mentions the work in his Masurgia (1646) and it was published in an autograph in 1649. The seven parts of the work bring the hexachord in various rhythms and with various second voices. In the sixth and seventh parts he adds chromatic tones, thus deftly exploiting the meantone temperament in the strong effect of dissonants and consonants. A true masterpiece. Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) wrote the Tombeau on the death of the lute player Blancheroche in Paris and added the following remark: ‘fait à Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche: lequel se joue fort lentement à la discretion sans observer aucune mesure.’ The improvisational character of the piece strongly resembles the Preludes non mésuree by Louis Couperin, whom Froberger met in Paris in 1652. A striking feature of this work is its exploitation of the meantone temperament, e.g. Froberger twice prescribes a D flat for where a C sharp is tuned, using the dissonant here as an expressive device. The Preludium is one of the great free forms in keyboard music. Of Hans Kotter (1485-1541) we hear an early example, here called Proömium in re. Kotter was a pupil of Paulus Hofhaymer, the most important ‘Organistenmacher’ of the 16th century, just as Sweelinck was in the 17th century. The original of the Giusti instrument is now in the Tagliavini collection in Bologna/Italy. |
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ID: ACDHN018-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection: Baroque
SACD Hybrid Disc (SACDH) = CD Digital Audio + Super Audio CD
David Rubio. Since the mid-1960s the name of David Rubio has been famous in the musical world as a maker of stringed instruments: guitars, lutes, harpsichords, violins, violas and cellos. Two string quartets play his instruments exclusively, and one is named the Rubio Quartet in his honour. |
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ID: CLAVES502704-06
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Dietrich Buxtehude died 300 years ago. This North German, 17 years older than Johann Sebastian Bach, was one of the major figures in the 17th century, particularly in the areas of organ and sacred music. Japanese organist Kei Koto, who is professor at the Lausanne Conservatory and author of a number of superb recordings (consecrated particularly to Bach), makes her debut for Claves with a magnificent triple album featuring the organ music of the master from Lübeck; the recordings were made on five historic organs in Northern Europe (Hamburg, Roskilde, Groningen, Payerne and Tangermünde) between the end of 2006 and September 2007. In order to increase interest in this anthology, she has added a CD centering around Buxtehude’s “Magnificat” for organ and similar works by illustrious predecessors and contemporaries. The texts in the accompanying booklet were written by eminent French specialist Gilles Cantagrel, whose biography about the German musician that was published by Fayard in 2006 already has earned recognition as a standard work. |
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ID: DCD34043
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
The massed voices of the 140-strong National Youth Choir revel in the magnificently soaring lines of Schütz’s sacred music, complemented by John Kitchen’s contributions on the powerful Rieger organ of St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. Revered by his contemporaries as the ‘Orpheus of our time’, Schütz would never have heard his music performed by forces such as these and on such a scale - surely he would have been a strong advocate of this astounding aural experience. Kitchen’s solo contributions contextualise the choral music with organ works by Samuel Scheidt and other contemporaries of Schütz.
Track listing
Scheidemann:
Toccata in G
Scheidt:
Postlude: Benedicamus Domino à 6 (modus pleno organo pedaliter)
Ein kindelein so lobelich
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, for organ, SSWV 496
Schütz:
Psalm 84: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29
Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt, SWV 393
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386
So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ SWV 379
Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten SWV 378
Psalm 130: Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir, SWV 25
Psalm 8: Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV 27
Cantate Domino canticum novum SWV 81
Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 494 'Meine Seele erhebt den Herren'
Psalm 98: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, SWV 35
Psalm 150: Alleluja! Lobet den Herren in seinem Heiligtum SWV 38
Edward Batting (organ)
Sweelinck:
Puer nobis nascitur C 12
John Kitchen (solo organ)
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer |
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ID: IFO03002
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Christian Ridil
1. Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort (4:05)
Martin Luther
2. Non moriar sed vidam (1:05)
Lukas Osiander
3. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (2:17)
Johann Sebastian Bach
4. Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (3:09)
5. Christe, du Lamm Gottes (1:29)
6. Christ lag in Todesbanden (3:22)
Balthasar Resinarius
7. Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist (:46) Johann Sebastian Bach
8. Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (6:04)
Johann Herrmann Schein
9. Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (2:12)
Heinrich Scheidemann
10. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (4:08)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
11. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu Dir (4:54)
Max Reger
12. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (2:07)
13. Mitten wir im Leben sind (2:00)
Abbing
14. Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich (18:41)
Jörg Abbing Organ
Angelika Steinki Organ
Frankfurter Blechbläserquintett Quintett
Christian Ridil Dirigent
Kammerchor der J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Gemischter Chor |
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ID: ORG72052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Liturgy
Lübeck: Präludien in E & g
Buxtehude; Passacaglia BuxWV 161; Präludium BuxWV 148
Bruhns: Präludien in e & g
Scheidemann: Praeambuli in G & g
Böhm: Präludien in C & a
Volker Ellenberger, organ / Flentrop-Orgel St. Marien Osnabrück |
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ID: RK2205
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is one of the principal composers in the 16th- and 17th-century Holland. As far as we know, Sweelinck only left Holland on one time. Nevertheless his works show Italien/Venetian influences, English/virginalist elements and knowledge of spanish composers. The growing cultural importance of Amsterdam in Sweelinck´s day probalbly explain his knowledge of contemporary European music. At the beginning of the 17th century, many organists travelled not only from Germany but also Poland and Sweden to Amsterdam to study under the famous Sweelinck. Later his Hamburg pupils Heinrich Scheidemann and Jacob Praetorius founded a sort of ‘Sweelinck outpost’ in Hamburg. They passed on their pupils what they have learned in Amsterdam. Léon Berben plays the pieces of Sweelincks und his pupils brilliantly at St. Jaque’s Church in Liège. This organ was reconstructed in the style of the late 16th century, following Sweelinck´s large organ in Amsterdam. RK 2205 | edition raumklang | Total: 67:32 |
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ID: RK2702
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Organ
Sebastian Knebel plays on the seventeenth-century Coswig organ of the beautiful Alte Kirche. Since this is the only surviving organ of its type Knebel has chosen a programme of music written in the period the organ was built. This is a well thought out programme which explores the tonal nuances of the restored Coswig organ and rounds off with selected pieces for harpsichord. |
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ID: RKAP30107
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Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
This CD begins with the performance of the penitential psalm Gott, sei mir gnädig nach deiner Güte (anon). This astonishing work has never before been recorded on CD. The only known date which survives in a manuscript score is 1711. amacord, one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles also performs works by Schütz, Schein and Praetorius.
Die großartigen „Musikalischen Exequien“ von Heinrich Schütz sind Zentrum und Höhepunkt der neuen Produktion von amarcord (ECHO Klassik-Preisträger 2010 für die CD „Rastlose Liebe“, RKap 10108). Mit welcher Weisheit amarcord als Wärme- und Trostspender die Motette „Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe“ reflektiert, ist schier atemberaubend. Wie sehr der Komponist dieser Zeilen mit Mitteldeutschland verbunden war, zeigt seine nahezu lebenslange Anstellung am Dresdner Hof. Seinen Lebensabend verbrachte der Vater der deutschen Barockmusik dann am Ort seiner Kindheit in Weißenfels, auch das ein Ort in Mitteldeutschland! Auch die weiteren barocken „Komponistenstars“ Johann Rosenmüller, Johann Hermann Schein und Michael Praetorius, deren Musik sich auf der CD befindet, waren dem kunstsinnig-fruchtbarem Mitteldeutschland verbunden.
anonymous -Gott, sei mir gnädig nach deiner Góte
S. Otto - Der Mensch vom Weibe geboren
M. Praetorius - Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin
J. Rosenmüller - Welt ade, ich bin dein müde
H. Scheidemann - Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr
J.H. Schein - Threnus
H. Schütz
Mit dem Amphion zwar
Musikalische Exequien, SWV 279-281 (Op. 7) |
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