Musik der Hansestädte Vol. 3 - Musik aus dem alten Magdeburg

Cordes, Manfred, Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble

CPO 555710

After Stralsund and Danzig, Magdeburg is the third stop on Manfred Cordes’ journey through the cities of the Hanseatic League. This stop not only takes him to a city quite far from the sea but also to the earliest period of Protestant church music. Magdeburg introduced the Reformation already in 1524, just seven years after Luther’s decisive act. Immediately, the transformation began of what the former monk from Eisleben cherished as a "gift and blessing from God" and saw as an effective means of preaching the Gospel. A genuine "Magdeburg School" emerged, with its representatives cultivating and developing the music of the new faith up until the Thirty Years’ War. This program follows that tradition, bringing to life the works of cantors from Martin Agricola to Heinrich Grimm, thus allowing compositions spanning approximately 120 years to resound once more.

Works:

•Gallus Dressler: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
•Gallus Dressler: Die Toren sprechen in ihrem Herzen / Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl
•Gallus Dressler: Quicquid erit tandem mea spes
•Martin Agricola: Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein
•Martin Agricola: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
•Wolff Heintz: Nu bitten wir den Heiligen Geist
•Leonhard Schröter: O lux beata Trinitas
•Leonhard Schröter: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr;
•Leonhard Schröter: Verleih uns Frieden / Gib unserm Fürsten
•Friedrich Weißensee: Peccavi super numerum arenae maris;
•Friedrich Weißensee: Cantate Domino
•Friedrich Weißensee: Nun sei dir Dank
•Heinrich Grimm: Herr, unser Herrscher
•Anonymes Flugblatt / Johann Hermann Schein: Merk fleißig auf / Warum betrübst du Dich mein Herz
•Malachias Siebenhaar: Ihr Kinder Israel

CD x 1

CPO

06/06/2025

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