Unser Wandel ist im Himmel
Speeches for eternityCompany of Music, J. Hiemetsberger
Can one learn to cope with grief? The most artful funeral music of the 17th century attempts to show a way: jewels of early Baroque vocal music combine to form a tonal meditation and lead into a world where waiting does not mean rigidity, but inner movement. The end as a beginning - not as a farewell, but as a glimpse of a consolation that transcends the earthly.
Whether as an intimate dialogue between soul and God or a vacillation between lament and confidence - Johannes Hiemetsberger, who always presents well-thought-out concert programs and an extraordinary ensemble, now creates a moving soundscape about inner preparation for what is to come.
Samuel Scheidt
from ›Cantiones Sacrae‹ 1620
Johann Hermann Schein
from ›Israelsbrünnlein‹ 1623
Heinrich Schütz
from ›Geistliche Chormusik‹ 1648, SWV 369-397
from ›Kleine Geistliche Konzerte‹ 1636/1639, SWV 282-337
from ›Psalmen Davids‹, SWV 31 + 35
›Musikalische Exequien‹, SWV 279-281
Company of Music
Johannes Hiemetsberger Conductor