Samuel Scheidt's Geistliche Konzerte or Sacred Concertos, dating from the 1630s, helped spread the Venetian polychoral style in Germany, and thus lay the basis for the development of Baroque ensemble music in that country. They offer an especially troublesome instance of the debate over the appropriate size of the vocal forces in Baroque choral ...
Hummel's oratorio Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer (The Passage Through the Red Sea) was long thought to have been lost, but a copy has surfaced in a London collection. This is the work's world-premiere recording and perhaps its premiere performance: according to the booklet, it was never performed during Hummel's lifetime. After you hear it, that ...
Heinrich Schütz's final set of Symphoniae Sacrae was composed in 1650, as Germany was emerging from the chaos of the Thirty Years' War. With the exception of the magnificent Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?, SWV 415, these pieces for five to eight vocal parts with instrumental ensemble are less well known than the composer's earlier sacred ...
With the flood of recordings devoted to the freethinking Salzburg Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, it is not surprising that his predecessor as Salzburg music director, Andreas Hofer, has been resurrected. There is nothing here to rival Biber's outlandish and fascinating programmatic ideas; Hofer's sacred music, as represented on this ...
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