A GERMAN SOUL - Devotional Music from 17th-Century Hamburg [CD de audio] Juan de La Rubia, Laia Frigolé, Ensemble Meridien and

Opere di Johann Rosenmüller, Heinrich Scheidemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Michael Praetorius, Franz Tunder, Matthias Weckmann, Dieterich Buxtehude e Johann Philipp Krieger - Gli otto composeri presented in this album were combined with the data of a ver svolto una parte della loro carriera ad Amburgo nella second goal of the 17th century. In that period, Hamburg was a very rich center of commerce and culture, capable of attracting a large number of composers of extraordinary talent, who alternated among the magnificent organs of the most important cities of the city. The program of this album comprises a beautiful anthology of works by Johann Rosenmüller, Johann Philipp Krieger, Dieterich Buxtehude, Michael Praetorius, Franz Tunder and Matthias Weckmann, with their most charismatic and innovative masters from the generation preceding that of Johann Sebastian Bach, alternating brani strumentali e pagine cameristiche a suggestive cantate performed by soprano Laia Frigolé. This album segna l'esordio in the catalog of the Brilliant Classics of the Ensemble Méridien, an eccellente formazione of original strumenti, which offers a wonderful sound panneggio and a great depth of expression. Laia Frigolé, soprano; Ensemble Méridien