CANTATAS
Sacred Music in Thuringia

The album Cantatas: Sacred Music in Thuringia unveils the soundscape of Lutheran Thuringia between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, reconstructed from the renowned 1968 discovery in the church of Großfahner, where a corpus of approximately three hundred cantatas had lain concealed.

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The sacred works of Fr. Troll and Johann Theodor Roemhildt, presented here in their world premiere recording, stand alongside the Concerto for flute preserved in a copy by Pisendel, as well as the organ chorales of Johann Gottfried Walther and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, teacher of Handel.

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Within a liturgical arc spanning from Christmas to Easter, trumpets, timpani, tenor and bass soloists, together with the period instruments of I CONTRAPPUNTISTI, restore the sophisticated and devotional character of the poetic music of the Bachian area.

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Read the full article on musicvoice.it:

La musica sacra tedesca del XVIII secolo: un ponte gettato sulla rappresentazione del mondo