Seeing a group called the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble on a disc devoted to sacred music by Johann Rosenmüller, a German composer of the middle-to-late 17th century, may not seem to promise much since groups specializing in the works of a single unknown composer may bring a musty, academic atmosphere. This one is the exception, however, with accurate, expressive instrumental work and a superb group of vocal soloists who capture the personal, intense quality of the music. The rediscovery of the 17th century German Baroque ...
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Seeing a group called the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble on a disc devoted to sacred music by Johann Rosenmüller, a German composer of the middle-to-late 17th century, may not seem to promise much since groups specializing in the works of a single unknown composer may bring a musty, academic atmosphere. This one is the exception, however, with accurate, expressive instrumental work and a superb group of vocal soloists who capture the personal, intense quality of the music. The rediscovery of the 17th century German Baroque beyond Schütz and Buxtehude is yielding fresh treasures like this almost completely unknown composer, who chronologically fell right between those two greats. He was a German counterpart to Italians like Steffani and Carissimi, just as Schütz had adapted the discoveries of the early Italian Baroque to the German situation a generation or two earlier. As conductor Arno Paduch points out in his own notes, the vocal pieces here (there is also a short three-movement instrumental sonata in...
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