Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott: Luther & the Music of the Reformation
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Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott: Luther & the Music of the Reformation
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Bart Jacobs
[ Ricercar / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 16 June 2017
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A two-CD set devoted to the Lutheran liturgical repertory from Martin Luther himself to Heinrich Schütz.
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.
Gramophone Award Nomination 2018 - Choral
"Lionel Meunier's assured direction never misses (nor overstates) an 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" Five Stars BBC Music Magazine Award WINNER 2018 Choral
"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." The Guardian
"In short, this is a winner all round, and deserves to be taken up by historians and music lovers alike." MusicWeb
"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.....The music is of consistently high quality, the selections by 'minor' figures frequently as telling as those by acknowledged masters...Programmatic flair is backed up by performances and a sound recording to match." Gramophone
