In the last few years there has been an increasing focus on record and in scholarship on sacred music composed for the Lutheran tradition in the generations before J.S. Bach, and this disc shows a fine variety of accomplished voices. There is Bach’s second cousin, Johann Christoph, whom JS acknowledged as ‘a profound composer’ whose Wie bist du den, O Gott is a five-movement lament of arioso writing exploring the expressive regions of guilt and grief that would later be so characteristic of the younger man’s sacred language.
Works:
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Bach, J C: Wie bist du denn, O Gott…
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Bruhns: De profundis clamavi
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Krieger, J P: Trio Sonata in D minor
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Rosenmüller: De Lamentatione
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Schop, J: Paduana a 5 in D minor
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Tunder: Da mihi Domine
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Weckmann: Kommet her zu mir…