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Music From Old Hanseatic Cities, Vol. 3 - Music From Old Magdeburg

Europaisches Hanse-Ensemble; Manfred Cordes

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Format: CD

Cat No: 555710-2

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Release Date:  01 August 2025

Label:  Cpo - Mid Price / CPO

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

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Barcode:  761203571024

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Music from old Hanseatic cities, Vol. 3 - Music from old Magdeburg

  • Description

    After Stralsund and Danzig, Magdeburg is the third stop on Manfred Cordes' journey through the cities of the Hanseatic League. This stop not only takes him to a city quite far from the sea but also to the earliest period of Protestant church music. Magdeburg introduced the Reformation already in 1524, just seven years after Luther's decisive act. Immediately, the transformation began of what the former monk from Eisleben cherished as a "gift and blessing from God" and saw as an effective means of preaching the Gospel. A genuine "Magdeburg School" emerged, with its representatives cultivating and developing the music of the new faith up until the Thirty Years' War. This program follows that tradition, bringing to life the works of cantors from Martin Agricola to Heinrich Grimm, thus allowing compositions spanning approximately 120 years to resound once more.