Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt. Choral works for Passion and Easter
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- So greatly God esteemed the world
- Tender love have I for thee, Lord
- Shout to the Lord, all the earth
- Praise the Almighty, O my spirit
- Vom Leiden Christi
- Oster-Dialog
- The Lord is my shepherd
- Schmücket das Fest mit Maien
- Danket dem Herrn, denn er ist freundlich
- Dixit Dominus
- Virgam virtutis
- Iuravit Dominus
- Dominus a dextris tuis
- De torrente
- Gloria Patri
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Composer
Andreas Hammerschmidt
| 1612-1675Andreas Hammerschmidt grew up in a Protestant family in Bohemia, but fled with his family to Freiberg in Electoral Saxony in 1626 due to religious persecution during the Counter-Reformation. No detailed information about his musical education has been handed down. In 1635, Hammerschmidt became organist at St. Peter's Church in Freiberg, until he took up the position of organist at St. John's Church in Zittau four years later. He held this position until his death, while Zittau developed into his musical centre of activity.
Hammerschmidt composed over 400 works, mainly church cantatas, motets and sacred madrigals. Stylistically, his music follows in the footsteps of Heinrich Schütz, but he is considered an important pioneer of the German church cantata, which later flourished under Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Preface writer
Jochen Arnold
Jochen Arnold, born 1967 in Marbach/Neckar, studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Rome and church music in Stuttgart (advanced diploma), where his teachers included Werner Jacob (organ), and Dieter Kurz and Helmut Wolf (conducting). He was a curate and Kantor in Reutlingen, obtained a doctorate at the University of Tübingen, qualified as a university lecturer in interdisciplinary subjects on the theology of Bach’s cantatas, and since 2008 hee has been a non-faculty lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 2004 he became director of St Michael’s Monastery Hildesheim, part of the Protestant- Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover, with a special responsibility for the theology of services, liturgy in worship, teaching how to preach, and conducting. He has extensive concert experience as conductor of the ensemble Gli Scarlattisti with numerous radio and CD productions. His repertoire ranges from the medieval to the present. Jochen Arnold also conducts the Collegium Musicum Hildesheim and the chorus of the University of Hildesheim. He lectures in choral conducting and Protestant theology. Personal details
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Ensemble
Gli Scarlattisti
The vocal ensemble Gli Scarlattisti was founded in 1995 by Jochen M. Arnold. It comprises professional singers from Germany and Switzerland. The Scarlattisti are usually accompanied by a continuo group of four instrumentalists or the Baroque orchestra Capella Principale (Director: Thorsten Bleich). The group’s first recording was released in 1998, containing the Musikalische Exequien and three motets from the Geistliche Chormusik (1648) by Heinrich Schütz. This was followed by a recording of Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin in the continuo version, as well as vesper psalms by Johann Rosenmüller (Vespro Veneziano) in 2001. A recording of Scarlatti’s ten-part setting of the Stabat Mater was released in 2006 together with Arnold’s Diptychon secundum Iohannem. This was fol lowed by an internationally-acclaimed CD of Latin and English cantatas and anthems by G. F. Handel under the title O praise the Lord on the Carus label, then in 2010 by a recording of the complete motets of J. S. Bach. The ensemble regularly undertakes concert tours, and in recent years has also taken part in radio broadcasts, performed at renowned concert series (Stuttgart, Nürnberg, Berlin, Celle, Frankfurt, Torgau, St. Gallen, among others) and participated in the Deut scher Evangelischer Kirchentag (German Protestant Church Congress) in Hanover and Cologne (TV). The repertoire of Gli Scarlattisti ranges from the Renaissance to the modern. One critic described the ensemble as the “crème de la crème of the early music scene in southern Germany.” Personal details
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Conductor
Jochen Arnold
Jochen Arnold, born 1967 in Marbach/Neckar, studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Rome and church music in Stuttgart (advanced diploma), where his teachers included Werner Jacob (organ), and Dieter Kurz and Helmut Wolf (conducting). He was a curate and Kantor in Reutlingen, obtained a doctorate at the University of Tübingen, qualified as a university lecturer in interdisciplinary subjects on the theology of Bach’s cantatas, and since 2008 hee has been a non-faculty lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 2004 he became director of St Michael’s Monastery Hildesheim, part of the Protestant- Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover, with a special responsibility for the theology of services, liturgy in worship, teaching how to preach, and conducting. He has extensive concert experience as conductor of the ensemble Gli Scarlattisti with numerous radio and CD productions. His repertoire ranges from the medieval to the present. Jochen Arnold also conducts the Collegium Musicum Hildesheim and the chorus of the University of Hildesheim. He lectures in choral conducting and Protestant theology. Personal details
Reviews
Carus’s devotion to the music of Andreas Hammerschmidt is one of the most encouraging features of their ever-expanding catalogue of recent recordings. […] Jochen Arnold marshals the forces of Gli Scarlattisti with assurance.
Jonathan Woolf, www.musicweb-international.com, April 2014
Das Ensemble hat sich mittlerweile zu einem kompetenten Spezialisten im frühbarocken Repertoire entwickelt. Es nennt sich Vokalistenensemble und stellt damit hohe vokale Ansprüche, denen es auf dieser neuen Einspielung gerecht wird.
pizzicato, 10/2013
[…] jedem Interessierten zu empfehlen; sie ist ein weiterer wichtiger Beitrag zur Hammerschmidt-Renaissance.
Johan van Veen, Toccata, September 2013
Das Album mit dem Vokalsolisten-Ensemble Gli Scarlattisti samt Instrumentalisten unter der Leitung von Jochen Arnold bringt die Motetten, Concerti und Kantaten beider barocker Meister mit eindringlicher Hinwendung und prägnanter Artikulation zum Klingen.
Mannheimer Morgen, 8. August 2013
A nice survey of Hammerschmidt's oeuvre.
Johan van Veen, musicweb-international.com, Juni 2013
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