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Hathor Consort / Dorothee Mields / Romina Lischka

Date & Time
Fri, May 17, 2024, 20:00
What traces do wars leave on the music of the time? The Hathor Consort, a viol ensemble of to which harp, organ and cornett are added, joins forces with soprano Dorothee Mields to look for echoes of the Thirty Years’ War in the works of composers who witnessed this catastrophic period in European history. With his »Trostgedichten in Widerwertigkeit deß Kriegs«, the poet Martin Opitz wrote an influential treatise of edification in the midst of this fierce conflict that claimed... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, Early Music, Vocal Music

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Musicians

Hathor Consort
Dorothee MieldsSoprano
Romina LischkaViola da gamba, Director

Program

Es steh Gott auf SWV 356 / aus: Symphoniae SacraeHeinrich Schütz
Ach Gott! Wir habens nicht gewusst / aus: Krieges-Angst-SeufftzerJohann Hildebrand
Unser Leben ist ein SchattenJohann Bach
Der 133. Psalm: Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist’s SWV 48Heinrich Schütz
Suite a 5 in dAndreas Hammerschmidt
Verleih uns Frieden SWV 354 / aus: Symphoniae sacrae IIHeinrich Schütz
Lehre uns bedenken / aus: Fontana d’IsraelJohann Hermann Schein
Galliarden, Paduan und Canzonen / aus: Ludi musiciSamuel Scheidt
Musicalische Kürbs-Hütte, welche uns erinnert menschlicher HinfälligkeitHeinrich Albert
Die güldne SonneJohann Georg Ebeling
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