Lied der Liebe

THE SONG OF SONGS IN GERMAN BAROQUE

Movimento

Solomon’s Song of Songs fascinates us with its emotional intensity and ambiguity. Everything is centred around a pair of lovers who search for, lose and find each other, and who delight in mutual compliments. The realistic scenarios are permeated with concepts that are puzzling or symbol-laden. “I am black” is one such conundrum; symbolic notions are, for example, the lily, the enclosed garden and, not least, the pomegranate, which appears a number of times in the Song of Songs.
The beauty of the texts and their multiplicity of meanings were the reasons for countless musical settings. The selection of this CD presents settings of German composers of the 17th and 18th centuries like Johann Sebastian and Johann Christoph Bach, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Rosenmüller, Heinrich Schütz, Christian Geist and Samuel Scheidt.

Ich schlafe, aber mein Herz wachet  4:33	play
Hammerschmidt, Andreas
Ich suchte des Nachts (Kantate)  13:03	play
Buxtehude, Dietrich
Sonate da Camera (1667) (Auszug)
Rosenmüller, Johann
» Sinfonie à 5  4:05	play
Ego dormio  2:55	play
Kapsberger, Giovanni Girolamo
Nachdem ich lag in meinem öden Bette (Madrigal)  5:05	play
Schütz, Heinrich
Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen BWV 49 (Kantate) (Auszug)
Bach, Johann Sebastian
» Rezitativ und Arioso: Mein Mahl ist zubereit  1:57	play
Sonate da Camera (1667) (Auszug)
Rosenmüller, Johann
» Allemanda  1:43	play
» Correnta  1:13	play
Quam pulchra es amica mea  3:55	play
Geist, Christian
Ich bin eine Blume zu Saron (Kantate)  8:51	play
Buxtehude, Dietrich
Paduana dolorosa  5:19	play
Scheidt, Samuel
Sie haben meinen Herrn hinweggenommen (Dialog auf Ostern)  10:18	play
Bernhard, Christoph
Hochzeitskantate (Auszug)
Bach, Johann Christoph
» Ciacona: Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein  8:48