Andreas Hammerschmidt:
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebet
Herzlich lieb hab ich dich
Jauchzet dem Herren
Lobe den Herren, meine Seele
Vom Leiden Christi
Oster-Dialog
Der Herr ist mein Hirt
Schmücket das Fest mit Maien
Danket dem Herrn
Johann Rosenmüller:
Dixit Dominus

Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611/12-1675) was one of the most important masters of the early German Baroque. His vocal works are known to the wider public today through just a few pieces such as “Machet die Tore weit”. Hammerschmidt ranks alongside the greatest Protestant-Lutheran church music composers including Schütz, Schein, Rosenmüller, and Bach. His output encompasses a wide range of the most varied musical forms: sacred concertos and cantatas, motets and instrumental pieces, and secular vocal works. Like Schütz, Hammerschmidt’s music is also strongly text-inspired and yet at the same time, musically artistic. This CD with the ensemble Gli Scarlattisti presents Andreas Hammerschmidt’s vocal compositions for Passiontide and Easter as well as a "Dixit Dominus" by his contemporary Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684). The vocal ensemble Gli Scarlattisti was founded in 1995 by Jochen M. Arnold and comprises professional singers from Germany and Switzerland