IDAGIO | Death & Devotion - Weckman, Tunder, Buxtehude & Ritter 723385208044

Featuring

Jos van Veldhoven
De Nederlandse Bachvereniging
Matthias Weckmann
Franz Tunder
Dietrich Buxtehude
Christian Ritter

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Performer Biography

The Netherlands Bach Society, the ensemble on this album, presents about 40 concerts a year, primarily focusing on Bach, his contemporaries, and predecessors.

Composer Biography

Dietrich Buxtehude, a composer featured on this album, was most probably a student of Heinrich Scheidemann and succeeded Franz Tunder as organist at the Marienkirche of Lübeck in 1668.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The most expressive vocal church music in 17th-century Northern Germany came from organists, not cantors, who had achieved exceptional status as virtuosi and 'learned' composers.

Performer Biography

Soprano Johannette Zomer, a soloist on this album, made her opera debut in Verdi's Don Carlo in October 1996 with the Nationale Reisopera.

Composition History

The foundation for the high level of North German organists, including those who composed the music on this album, was laid by the teachings of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

Performer Biography

Bass Peter Harvey, a soloist on this album, participated in about 70 live performances during Sir John Eliot Gardiner's historic Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Tour in 2000.

Performer Biography

Jos van Veldhoven, the conductor of this album, has been the artistic director of The Netherlands Bach Society since 1983 and also founded the Utrechts Barok Consort in 1976.