Release Date: 30 October 2020
Label: Christophorus
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4010072774491
Description
Generations of highly esteemed musicians have worked at Leipzig's Thomaskirche with its world-famous boys' choir.
Most of them are hardly known today like Tobias Michael, Sebastian Knupfer, Johann Schelle or Johann Kuhnau. These four composers were the immediate predecessors of the most famous Thomaskantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, and all of them also created wonderful music.
One sacred concert each on "Machet die Tore weit" by Johann Schelle and Tobias Michael will open the programme. The most splendid and extensive composition is Sebastian Knupfer's "Dies est laetitiae" for 22 voices, divided into a five-part trumpet choir with timpani, strings, bassoon, three flutes, six soloists and a four-part choir.
The only composer on this CD who was not Thomaskantor is Johann Caspar Horn. His composition "Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit", a setting of the well-known Christmas text from the Gospel of Luke, has been documented to have been performed in St. Thomas Church.
Tracklisting
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Rebeka Ruso; Sebastian Wienand
Kurt Meier; Howard Griffith; Royal Northern Sinfonia
Francesca Venturi Ferriolo; Salon Violet
Luca Cervoni; Concerto Romano
Max Hattwich; Johannes Wieners; Jonathan Boudevin
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Miriam Feuersinger; Klaus Mertens
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Hans-Christoph Rademann, NDR Chor Hamburg
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
