Festive Music for the Reformation Celebration 1617
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Label: Christophorus
Cat No: CHR77363
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 28th August 2012
Contents
Artists
Chamber Choir Bad HomburgJohann Rosenmuller Ensemble
About
The only self-contained and completely preserved composition for the Reformation jubilee in 1617 is the six-part 'Gaudium Christianum' by the cantor and pastor Michael Altenburg (1584-1640), which is recorded on this CD for the first time. This sumptuous work, with up to 19 voices, adapts the multiple choir tradition of Northern Italy and is set for three choirs with voices and various instruments, including trumpets and timpani, which was a novelty for liturgical polyphonic music at the time. This opulence allows the festival music for the Reformation anniversary to appear as a splendid demonstration of the power of the Lutheran Church, which wished to distance itself in this way not only from the Catholic competition but also from the Calvinist reforming tendencies.
The Chamber Choir Bad Homburg, accompanied by the large Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble, has added to the thirty minute work by Michael Altenburg selected Michaelmas motets by Schütz, Scheidt, Franck, Demantius and Johann Christoph Bach.
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