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Composer:
Matthias Weckmann

Artist(s):
Cantus Colln
Bruce Dickey

Conductor:
Konrad Junghanel

Background: Hamburg, 1674: to his contemporaries, the death of Matthias Weckmann seemed to herald the end of a glorious period. In his post as organist of the Jacobikirche since 1655, the composer had breathed new life into the city’s musical scene with his Collegium Musicum. Among his finest sacred works is an astonishing setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, Wie liegt die Stadt so wüßte (How doth the city sit solitary).

This haunting work is both pristinely evocative and immaculately structured, a credit to the teaching of Weckmann's teacher, Heinrich Schütz, and the German musical tradition preceding JS Bach. Scored for bass and soprano singers, a few strings, and organ continuo, the work demonstrates the most attractive devotion, and the result will touch even those with no religious affiliation. The libretto is taken from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, chapter 1, which speaks of the isolation of the city of Jerusalem. This is music with a deeper, more significant gentleness than can be found in any religious propaganda.

CATALOGUE NR: HMC902034
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 01-Feb-2010

COMPOSER: Matthias Weckmann
TITLE: Wie liegt die Stadt so wuste - Sacred Motets
TRACKS: Wie liegt die Stadt so wuste. Der Tod ist verschlungen in den Sieg. Canzon IX. Weine nicht. Gegrusset seist Du Holdselige. Kommet her zu mir alle die ihr muhselig und beladen seid. Canzon II. Zion spricht der Herr hat mich verlassen. Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen Ps126.
ORCHESTRA: Concerto Palatino
CONDUCTOR: Konrad Junghanel
ARTISTS: Cantus Colln   Bruce Dickey   Simen van Mechelen  

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