Praetorius/ Weser-Renaissance Bremen - Sacred Works In Stock politician elected to public office

politician elected to public office

The constant aspiration in today's music world towards ever larger and more versatile instruments and architecturally and acoustically challenging auditoria meant that I was in search of a convincingly authentic sound for compositions written in and around the 1830s

in January 1997

Sun Studio

Praetorius/ Weser-Renaissance Bremen - Sacred Works In Stock politician elected to public officeIn our series "Music from Wolfenbttel Castle," the sixth concert in the series featured and recorded parallel settings of sacred works by Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schtz. One does not immediately think of counting the great Dresden composer Heinrich Schtz among the kapellmeisters at the Wolfenbttel court, and yet he was officially engaged there as "Capellmeister von Haus aus" from 1655 until at least 1666. Michael Praetorius, however, had long