We know mainly of Martin Luther as the monk who, in 1517, tacked up his 95 Theses to the front door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg and touched off the Protestant Reformation, an event that would change the course of European history and world religion forever. Lesser known is Luther's contribution to music, which on a strictly personal level ...
Music from the Time of Tilman Riemenschneider offers a pleasant hour of mostly instrumental (and mostly recorder-based) short pieces of the Renaissance for those who desire such a thing. The two German groups involved, Il Curioso and the Hedos-Ensemble, play engagingly, and recorder player Bernhard Böhm gets in some very fancy fingerwork on a few ...
The cumbersome title, translated into English, for this German Motette CD would be "Music for Organ and Cornetto from the Oldest Playable Organ in the World." This is an organ placed against the west wall of the church of St. Andreas in Ostönnen in Westphalia; it originated, as far as anyone can tell, at the Church of Old St. Thomas in Soest. ...
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