Distler/Zimmerman: Sacred Choir & Organ Music

In a word: blissful. Here is a sublime compendium of Hugo Distler’s sacred music for choir and organ in rewarding SACD-recorded sound. Maria Jürgensen and the Norddeutscher Kammerchor make much... — Choir & Organ, July 2020 More…

Release Date: 27th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: MDG9022156
Label: MDG

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Distler, H: Allein Gott In Der Hoh Sei Her

Christina Rotterberg (soprano)
Norddeutscher Kammerchor
Maria Jürgensen

Distler, H: Spangenbergs Grosses Gloria 1545

Christina Rotterberg (soprano)
Norddeutscher Kammerchor
Maria Jürgensen

Distler, H: Strasburger Grosses Gloria 1525

Christina Rotterberg (soprano)
Norddeutscher Kammerchor
Maria Jürgensen

Distler, H: Geistliche Konzerte (3) for Soprano & Organ, Op. 17

Christina Rotterberg (soprano)
Norddeutscher Kammerchor
Maria Jürgensen

Distler, H: Organ Sonata (Trio) Op. 18 No. 2

Christina Rotterberg (soprano)
Norddeutscher Kammerchor
Maria Jürgensen

Distler, H: Dreimaliges Kyrie Nürnberg 1525

Christina Rotterberg (soprano)
Norddeutscher Kammerchor
Maria Jürgensen

Zimmermann, H W: Chorvariationen Uber Ein Thema Von Hugo Distler

Christina Rotterberg (soprano)
Norddeutscher Kammerchor
Maria Jürgensen

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Hugo Distler's contribution to Lutheran church music of the twentieth century can hardly be overestimated. His clear musical language marked by lightness and transparency has influenced generations of church musicians and composers. With the Norddeutscher Kammerchor in top form, Maria Jürgensen has now recorded a program with works from Distler's Liturgische Sätzend - as a complementary contrast - Hans-Werner Zimmermann's jazz-inspired chorale variations Distler's Nürnberger Großes Gloria. The Liturgische Sätze (Liturgical Settings) are based on original Lutheran melodies from the Reformation period. The various Kyrie and Gloria settings of the sixteenth century continue to be used in Lutheran religious services. In Distler's settings the text always occupies the foreground; unfamiliar harmonies sometimes result from his very individual, word-related part writing. This ambitious a cappella program is complemented by the organ sonata and three sacred songs for soprano and organ. Christiane Roterberg and Arvid Gast perfectly complement the tone of this filigree music conveyed with the finest Super Audio CD technology.

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July 2020

In a word: blissful. Here is a sublime compendium of Hugo Distler’s sacred music for choir and organ in rewarding SACD-recorded sound. Maria Jürgensen and the Norddeutscher Kammerchor make much – and with enormous, affecting sympathy – of the composer’s rich, respectful take on Reformation-era Lutheran melodies, with soprano Christina Roterberg a nuanced interpreter of his distinctive, often ethereal, word setting.

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