Meunier Vox Luminis - Ach Jesus Stirbt - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Andreas Hammerschmidt is undoubtedly the most unjustly neglected composer of seventeenth-century Lutheran Germany. Very few recordings have been devoted to him, even though his music was widely published during his lifetime. The fifteen or so published collections offer a great variety of works, which, like those of his famous contemporary Heinrich Schutz, illustrate the fusion between the Lutheran polyphonic tradition and the various stylistic influences of the Italian Baroque. For this musical portrait of Hammerschmidt, Vox Luminis has drawn on several of these collections in order to offer as rounded a picture as possible of the variety of the composer's styles. The entire programme is structured around texts for Passiontide and Easter, introduced by an intensely moving madrigalian motet on the death of Christ, Ach Jesus stirbt. Album Tracks 1. Ach Jesus Stirbt 2. O Barmherziger Vater 3. Warum Betrübst Du Dich, Mein Herz 4. Ach Gott, Warum Hast Du Mein Vergessen 5. Erbarm Dich Mein 6. Bis Hin An Des Creutzes Stamm 7. Christ Lag in Todesbanden 8. Vater Unser 9. Ich Bin Gewiß, Das Weder Tod 10. Triumph, Triumph, Victoria 11. Die Mit Tränen Säen 12. Wer Wälzet Uns Den Stein 13. Ist Nicht Ephraim Mein Theurer Sohn 14. Ich Fahre Auf Zu Meinem Vater 15. Siehe, Wie Fein Und Lieblich Ists