Jens Hamann, Christian Drengk – Golden Paths of Heaven (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jens Hamann, Christian Drengk – Golden Paths of Heaven (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:49 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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It is a dialogue across the ages when, towards the end of his life, the seeker of meaning Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), baptised as a Protestant, chooses biblical words recorded between 300 BC and 50 AD to set to music. The fact that there is no mention of Christ, suits the skeptically minded Brahms. Questions were ultimately more important to him than traditional and ecclesiastical answers.

The poet-composer Peter Cornelius (1824-1874), on the other hand, is an altogether different case. Poetically entwining Jesus’ Lord’s Prayer with his own words, he then set the verses to music by drawing on the musical motifs of the Gregorian Paternoster. The fact that he, as a Catholic, refers to the Luther Bible is a feature he has in common with Brahms. In the midst of his compositional work, Cornelius informs his mentor Franz Liszt in a letter dated September 6, 1854: ‘For fourteen days, my Paternoster has been in the process of becoming a very interesting work… Nine songs about the cantus firmus! This is new, and some of it turned out well.’

Finally, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) praises Friedrich Rückert’s highly subjective poetry as ‘first-hand lyricism.’ In the summer of 1901, Mahler set to music five of the many poems Rückert had written in June and July 1834 as part of a three and a half months long poetic mourning period, following the death of two of his children. As with Mahler’s other Rückert settings, the so-called “Rückert-Lieder”, there exist both a piano and an orchestral version.

Tracklist:

1-01. Jens Hamann – No. 1, Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh (05:10)
1-02. Jens Hamann – No. 2, Ich wandte mich und sahe an alle (04:45)
1-03. Jens Hamann – No. 3, O Tod, wie bitter bist du (04:17)
1-04. Jens Hamann – No. 4, Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete (05:35)
1-05. Jens Hamann – No. 1, Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel (04:02)
1-06. Jens Hamann – No. 2, Geheiligt werde dein Name (04:34)
1-07. Jens Hamann – No. 3, Zu uns komme dein Reich (03:25)
1-08. Jens Hamann – No. 4, Dein Wille geschehe (02:11)
1-09. Jens Hamann – No. 5, Unser täglich Brot gib uns heut (03:29)
1-10. Jens Hamann – No. 6, Vergib uns unsre Schuld (03:34)
1-11. Jens Hamann – No. 7, Also auch wir vergeben unsern Schuldigern (01:56)
1-12. Jens Hamann – No. 8, Führe uns nicht in Versuchung (03:46)
1-13. Jens Hamann – No. 9, Erlöse uns von dem Übel (03:18)
1-14. Jens Hamann – No. 1, Nun will die Sonn‘ so hell aufgehn (06:57)
1-15. Jens Hamann – No. 2, Nun seh‘ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (05:24)
1-16. Jens Hamann – No. 3, Wenn dein Mütterlein (06:23)
1-17. Jens Hamann – No. 4, Oft denk‘ ich, sie sind nur ausgezogen (03:40)
1-18. Jens Hamann – No. 5, In diesem Wetter (07:15)

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