Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott: Luther and the Music of the Reformation
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Label: Ricercar
Cat No: RIC153
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 19th January 2018
Contents
Artists
Bart Jacobs (organ)Vox Luminis
Conductor
Lionel MeunierArtists
Bart Jacobs (organ)Vox Luminis
Conductor
Lionel MeunierAbout
The first disc comprises compositions specific to the Lutheran liturgy: Deutsche Messe, Deutsches Magnificat, Deutsche Passion (the first German polyphonic Passion, by Joachim von Burck) and even a reconstruction of a Deutsches Requiem drawn from polyphonic works that set the same texts as those Brahms was later to use for his Deutsches Requiem.
The second disc presents a selection of motets arranged according to the liturgical calendar, from Advent to Trinity. These polyphonic pieces were written by a wide range of composers including Martin Luther, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Michael Praetorius, Joachim von Burck, Christoph Bernhardt, Heinrich Schütz, Thomas Selle, Melchior Franck, Caspar Othmayr, Michael Altenburg, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein and Johann Walter. The organist Bart Jacobs completes the programme with a few organ pieces by seventeenth-century composers.
Reviews
We are guided through the seasons of the church year and the foundations of the Lutheran liturgy in the company of composers, from Luther himself, Schein, Scheidt and Praetorius to the little-known Steffens and Joachim a Burck. Nothing surpasses the solemn beauty of Schütz’s German Magnificat, but Thomas Selle’s Die mit Tränen säen (later set by Brahms) is piercingly beautiful. Intensely focused singing from Vox Luminis, and fine organ interludes by Bart Jacobs. Nicholas Kenyon
In short, this is a winner all round, and deserves to be taken up by historians and music lovers alike. (Recording of the Month)
... it traces a fascinating history in sound traversing the first century and a half of Lutheranism, colonising two generously-filled discs housed in a lavishly illustrated book format. ... Lionel Meunier’s assured direction never misses (nor overstates) and expressive trick; and Vox Luminis’s warmly inflected singing is throughout finely-attuned to the way in which every note has its exact place in sustaining the whole. A superb anthology, superbly executed. Paul Riley (Choral & Song Choice)
This year has seen several fine recordings celebrating the quincentenary of the founding act of the Reformation but this is comfortably the most searching and artistically rewarding that I’ve listened to. ... Vox Luminis (here with organist Bart Jacobs) give themselves plenty a scope with the double-CD format, and fill both discs generously. Programmatic flair is backed up by performances and a sound recording to match. Fabrice Fitch
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