Unser Wandel ist im Himmel

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