Beat Duddeck

Beat Duddeck, Ensemble Schirokko Hamburg – O Lux Beata Trinitas: Norddeutsche Kantaten (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:45 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

The works on this recording range from Danzig (now Gdansk) by way of Gstrow, Hamburg and Gottorf to Copenhagen and Stockholm. Born in the early 17th century, the choirmasters and Kapellmeisters of the Lutheran churches and courts of the North had ideal working conditions. They were greatly indebted to a composer from the preceding generation, Heinrich Schtz. His activities as a teacher, and the sheer volume of his published works, exercised a decisive influence upon his students and emulators. When the sirocco, the hot desert wind, crosses boundaries and coasts and advances into the plains of north Germany, it lends Mediterranean temper to Nordic melancholy, embraces warmly where a Hanseatic breeze otherwise blows keenly, spices coastal mists with exotic aromas.
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