Cactus Music

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Format: CD
Label: Cpo Records
Rel. Date: 01/03/2025
UPC: 0761203551521

Magnificat II
Artist: Pachelbel / Himlische Cantorey
Format: CD
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In the last decade of his life, Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) worked as a church musician in his hometown of Nuremberg. In this capacity, he was extremely productive, even by the standards of the time: he set the Magnificat, the Virgin Mary's hymn of praise to the greatness of the Lord, who chose her to be the mother of the Savior, almost a dozen times for Protestant vespers services. And he did so with admirable creative imagination and a feeling for instrumental colors that still has an immediate effect today: as in the first episode of this series, we are confronted here with a full-bodied, pithy life that by no means perceives the world as a vale of tears. The Himlische Cantorey under it's founder, conductor and tenor Jan Kobow once again lives up to it's name.
        
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