Utwory na płycie:

• Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, sacred concerto for 4 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 371: Christ lag in Todesbanden
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, sacred concerto for 4 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 371: Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, sacred concerto for 4 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 371: Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, sacred concerto for 4 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 371: Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, sacred concerto for 4 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 371: Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, sacred concerto for 4 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 371: So feirn wir das hohe Fest
• Christ lag in Todesbanden, sacred concerto for 4 voices, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 371: Wir essen und leben wohl
• Der Herr ist König und herrlich geschmückt
• Suite, for lute in F sharp minor (arranged by Walter Gerwig from T. 312): Alemande "L'Amant mal contant"
• Suite, for lute in F sharp minor (arranged by Walter Gerwig from T. 312): Courante "L'Amant soulage"
• Suite, for lute in F sharp minor (arranged by Walter Gerwig from T. 312): Sarabande "L'Amant soupirant"
• Suite, for lute in F sharp minor (arranged by Walter Gerwig from T. 312): Gigue "Raillerie des amans"
• Gott sei uns gnädig, sacred concerto for 5 voices, 5 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, 4 violas, bassoon & continuo, T. 374
• Magnificat, for 5-part chorus, 2 cornets or oboes, 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon & continuo in D major, T. 415

Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum
Christ lag in Todesbanden
Der Herr ist König und herrlich geschmückt
Suite für Theorbe solo
Gott sei uns gnädig

Johann Pachelbel was born in Nürnberg on September 1, 1653. Heinrich Schwemmer and Georg Caspar Wecker provided his elementary musical education at the St Lorenz school in Nürnberg, and he was later taught by Kaspar Prentz in Regensburg. In 1673 Pachelbel went to Vienna, where he was influenced by Johann Kaspar Kerll. He became court organist in 1677 in Eisenach, but his employer, Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach died only a year later. Pachelbel then went to Erfurt, where he was installed as organist at the Predigerkirche on June 19, 1678. He remained there for twelve years, during which time he had close contact with the Bach family. He taught Johann Christoph, Johann Sebastian’s brother, and was godfather to their sister Johanna Juditha. Brought up and taught by his brother Johann Christoph after their parents’ death, Johann Sebastian Bach might be thus re - garded as a “pupil once removed” of Pachelbel. Although Johann Pachelbel was very successful in Erfurt as an organist and composer, he left to take up an organist’s post at the court in Stuttgart on September 1, 1690. However, he was forced to flee the city when the French invaded south - ern Germany in 1692. After briefly returning to Nürnberg, he was installed as organist in Gotha on November 8, 1692. Then his former teacher Wecker died on April 20, 1695 and, without the customary audition, the city of Nürnberg offered him Wecker’s post as organist at the church of St Sebald. There Pachelbel remained until his death on March 9, 1706.

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Recording: 12-14 August 2002, Ev. Kirche St. Osdag, Mandelsloh (Germany)