Poor Christian Geist; his name, in German, means ghost and the colloquial phrase "den Geist aufgeben" means to give up the ghost; something Geist was repeatedly having to do in a professional sense before he did so in a corporeal sense. Born in the very North German town of Güstrow about 1650, Geist opted to follow in his father's footsteps, as ...
This collection of Christmas music isn't very well identified on its cover, but it makes a fine choice for the holiday season or any other time. The program consists of music composed in German-speaking countries in the seventeenth century. Heinrich Schütz and Michael Praetorius are the best-known composers represented, but most of the music comes ...
Originally released in 1998, this disc covers a segment of the German Baroque that is still sparsely recorded; it was thus a strong candidate for reissue. The title, German Seventeenth Century Church Music, is somewhat misleading, for the program covers only a fairly narrow subset of that repertory. All the music, except for possibly Schütz's ...
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