cantus et musica Freiburg - Alle Lande, jubelt Gott - geistliche Musik für Chor und Orgel (2019)

On the cover of the Minster Tower. The recording also took place in Freiburg Cathedral. It seems like somebody is organizing his personal request concert. The former Freiburg cathedral conductor Raimund Hug (83) knows as a priest, of course, that praising God is the noblest task of the Christian man. He has put together an informative collection of sacred music for choir and organ under the motto "All Lands, Cheers God". Works by composers who were companions and / or whom he appreciates. It's never going to be a problem. It's about contributions from the 20th and 21st centuries. On the contrary! With his eminent (repertoire) experience, Hug shows how attractive sacred music of recent date can be. Do not disturb the dissonance, but become the spice of the sound event.

The fact that Hug studied in Vienna is probably due to the company's focus on Austria. That energetically raises with the eponymous introitus of Peter Planyavsky. A touching performance will be given to the most extensive work: the "Missa in Lydian", conceived for Christmas by Anton Heiller, that luminary of the Viennese music scene. Time and again, the Graz-born Freiburg cathedral organist Matthias Maierhofer proves to be as sensitive as a sovereign companion who documents his class as a soloist with Haselböck (Toccata serena) and Kropfreiter ("Signum"). It sings Hug's ensemble cantus et musica freiburg. It presents a cappella format at "Juble, daughter Zion" of Rolf Löffler, who lives in Münstertal. Also Christopher David Wiggins may not be missing, whose music had boom in Hugs Münster time: From "Laetare Jerusalem" of the British Bruckner expresses. The oldest work is the late-romantic "Psalm 130", written in 1912 in Wuppertal in 1923, by Heinrich Kaminski from Tiengen on the Upper Rhine. Without affirmation, Raimund Hug's CD project underscores the quality, breadth and beauty of the younger Musica sacra.

Tracklist:

01. Alle Lande jubelt Gott!
02. Juble, Tochter Zion
03. O magnum mysterium
04. Psalm 131, Domine non superbit cor meum
05. Psalm 130, Aus der Tiefe rufe ich Herr zu dir!
06. Seele Christi, heilige mich
07. Laetare Jerusalem
08. Sei stille zu Gott, meine Seele
09. Victimae paschali laudes
10. Te Deum
11. Toccata serena
12. Missa in lydisch zum Weihnachtsfest: 1. Kyrie
13. Missa in lydisch zum Weihnachtsfest: 2. Gloria
14. Missa in lydisch zum Weihnachtsfest: 3. Sanctus
15. Missa in lydisch zum Weihnachtsfest: 4. Benedictus
16. Missa in lydisch zum Weihnachtsfest: 5. Agnus Die
17. Peace I Leave with You
18. Und dann sah ich
19. Signum