Alice Foccroulle, Béatrice Mayo-Felip, Reinoud Van Mechelen, InAlto, Lambert Colson - Schein: Ich wi...

Tracklist
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01. Canzon corollarium à 5 in A Minor
02. Ich will schweigen
03. Fantasia in D Minor
04. Exaudiat te Dominus
05. Suite VII
06. Fugue on Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott
07. Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott
08. Fuga XII à 4
09. Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn
10. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
11. Sonatina à 4
12. Mach dich auf, werde Licht
13. Paduana à 4 in D Minor
14. Fantasy on "In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr"
15. Fuga sopra Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 705
When Johann Hermann Schein became Kantor at the church of Saint Thomas in Leipzig in 1616, he had, on the one hand, to satisfy the liturgical demands of his Lutheran parish and, on the other, compose music that was truly contemporary, sensible to the new style coming out of Italy. Schein exploited the new possibilities brought by the basso continuo, demonstrated his mastery of musical rhetoric and wrote extremely ambitious music of great expressive force. The instrumentation calls for instruments such as the cornet, trombone and dulcian, Schein drawing his musicians from the forces of the Stadtpfeiffer and Ratsmusiker, guilds of instrumentalists attached to the City of Leipzig since the 15th century. For this musical portrait of Schein, one of the greatest German composers of the 17th century and one of J. S. Bach's most talented predecessors, InAlto presents an itinerary to the sources of the German cantata and testimony to the extraordinary tradition of city musicians perpetuated over the centuries. In addition to Schein's music, this heritage is represented here by Johann Schelle, Gottfried Reiche and J. S. Bach.