Cathedrals around England have their own choirs with their own traditions, and this disc presents some characteristic work from one of the lesser-known among them, the Lincoln Cathedral Choir. It differs from the general run of English choral discs in several respects. First, the cathedral is dedicated to the worship of the Virgin Mary, and music ...
For his second volume of German organ music, Joseph Payne has selected works representative of Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical styles of organ writing. The majority of these pieces reflect the dominance of the Lutheran chorale, and the treatments of these melodies -- as chorale preludes, fantasias, and variations -- are central to this disc's ...
Hieronymus Praetorius was a late Renaissance composer who figured in a prominent German musical family; he was not related to Michael Praetorius, but lived at about the same time. Although in his lifetime Hieronymus Praetorius was renowned as a great organist, very little of that has come down under his name, and much of what is known is ...
The title San Marco in Hamburg refers to the style of this group of Latin motets, composed by Hieronymus Praetorius and published between 1599 and 1625: Hamburg had several churches that were large enough to accommodate the polychoral style of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, developed at Venice's St. Mark's cathedral, and that style had become known ...
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