JAUCHZET DEM HERREN

The Psalms of David in 17th Century Northern Germany

Hans-Jorg Mammel; La Fenice; Jean Tubery

Works by:

1 Dixit Dominus Domino meo BuxWV 17,

Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707)

2 Canzon Cornetto

Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)

3 Aus der Tiefe rufe ich Herr zu dir

Johann Philipp Förtsch (1652-1732)

4 Jauchzet Gott alle Lande

Julius Johann Weiland (c.1605-1663)

5 Sonata a 4

Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674)

6 Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, Klaglied

Dietrich Buxtehude

7 Praeludium und Fuge e-Moll

Nikolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)

8 Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir

Christoph Bernhard (1628-1692)

9 O höchster Gott

Johann Sommer (c.1570-1627)

10 Chanson [Canzon] a 4

Johann Sommer

11 Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt

Nikolaus Bruhns

After the Thirty Years War, a brilliant musical culture was able to flourish in the churches of Northern Germany. Organists such as Buxtehude, Scheidemann, Bruhns or Sommer, started to compose their

own works. This new musical culture in the North of Germany fundamentally differed from what was going on in the Center or the South of the country.

In these regions there remained a scholarly and speculative conception of music, inspired by the humanist spirit of the Reformation. On the shores of the Baltic and North seas it was the prosperous

Hanseatic League which considerably influenced musical life.

Aristocrats and burghers insisted that the members of local chapels should be allowed to practice their art, like the organists and musicians attached to the service of the different towns. Thus a

generation of musicians was born. Assembled on this disc, their music probably never achieved the recognition it deserved.

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