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Markus Flaig

  • Les Escapades revive Georg Christoph Strattner sacred music

    Jul 22nd, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Alexander Schneider, Baroque music, CD Review, choral music, Christophorus, Classical music, Cosimo Stawiarski, Daniel Schriber, Georg Christoph Strattner, Les Escapades, Markus Flaig, Miriam Feuersinger, Monika Mauch, Noteworthy Release

    Georg Christoph Strattner is best remembered today for some of his hymn tunes. But in the late 1690s, he was a well-respected composer of many forms of sacred music. Strattner spent most of his professional life at the court chapel at Weimar. Like Heinrich Schutz, who was of the previous generation, Strattner blended the ideals […]

  • Christmas Music at Thomaskirche a fine tradition

    Dec 9th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, choral music, Christophorus, Florian Cramer, Hansjörg Mammel, Holiday music, Johann Kuhnau, Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble;, Johanne Schelle, Kamemrchor der Erlöserkirche Bad Hamburg, Kohanna Krell, Markus Flaig, Sebastian Knüpfer, Simone Schwark, Susanne Rohn, Tobias Michael

    Machet die Tore weilt, Weihnachtmusik an der Thomaskirche (Christmas Music at Thomaskirche) is the second such collection of music I’ve reviewed this year. That is seasonal sacred music by the composers who preceded Johann Sebastian Bach at Thomaskirche, Leipzig. I’m not sure if this is some kind of trend, but I’d be happy if it was. […]

  • Telemann: Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott

    Mar 29th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Arno Paduch, Baroque music, CD Review, choral music, Christophorus, Classical music, Georg Philipp Telemann, Hans Jörg Mammel, Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble;, Johanna Krell, Kammerchor der Erlöserkirche Bad Homburg;, Markus Flaig, Simone Schwark, Wolfgang Weiß

    This release features five cantatas that Georg Philipp Telemann wrote for Reformation Sunday (more or less). October 31 wasn’t officially fixed as Reformation Day until the 19th century. Nevertheless, as early as 1617 many German states were using the first Sunday after October 31st to commemorate Luther’s establishment of the protestant church. Whether celebrating Reformation […]

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