This week on Going Beyond Words, Host Stan Schmidt invites you to the last of three programs concluding a comprehensive look at the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation and the musical accomplishments of Martin Luther. You will enjoy six of Luther’s melodies created by eight different composers culminating in Cantata 80 Ein Feste Burg by Johann Sebastian Bach. Along with that masterpiece you will hear the same melody by Michael Pratorius plus a solo version sung by Sophie Harmsen, Mezzo along with the Organ setting with Matthias Ank Organ composed by Max Reger from his Op 67, Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ is offered by composer Johann Hermann Schein, followed by the same melody presented in the opening chorus of Cantata 129 by Johann Sebastian Bach. I am the Resurrection and the Life (Ich bin die Auferestchung) and a setting of Psalm 136 both by Heinrich Schütz. Even German composer Chritoph J. Drescher born in 1982 presents his explanation of Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist (Come Holy Sprit). Also represented is music by Ludwig Senfl who lived long enough during Luther’s era to really get a handle on what Martin was trying to express. This is done in a Chant Style heard in “In Pace in idipsum” and concluding with Psalm 4, those is extracted from a 9 CD set on the Christophorus Label.
Other groups on this concert are the National Lutheran Choir with David Cherwien along with Gli Scarlalttisti guided by Jochen Arnold; The Aethesinu Consort of Berlin under Klaus-Martin Bresgott; Finally Bach Master and Scholar Helmuth Rilling leads the Gächinger Kantorei The Bach Collegium of Stuttgart. You will thoroughly revel in the artistic wonder of this stunning music of the Reformation.
For a look at the CD’s used and a complete list of the music heard go to the blog of WWW.GOINGBEYONDWORDS.COM website and click on show 2405 to get information about a Choral Adaptation just recently completed by the Composer.
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