The album features English organs, including one by the famous English organ builder James Jepson Binns, to achieve an authentic sound.
The album aims to make the great English choral music, which is often still unknown in Germany, more familiar.
Martina Mailänder, the organist, is the cantor at St. Pantaleon in Cologne and performs concerts throughout Europe and Russia.
Richard Mailänder, the conductor, co-founded fi guralchor köln in 1986 with Dr. Friedhelm Hofmann, who is now the Bishop of Würzburg.
For 17th and 18th-century music, a Samuel Green organ from 1795 was used, which has unique features like no pedal and a shortened solo work.
Richard Mailänder is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and was appointed Archdiocesan Church Music Director in 2006.
The album features German choirs singing English music in its original language, acknowledging that their sound will differ from English choirs.
