Voices: Reformation 500

on Oct. 1, 2017 at Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word

Voices: Reformation 500

Voices, Rochester's professional chamber chorus, will honor the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, with music by Martin Luther, and his contemporaries Josquin, Senfl and Walther, as well as music by Heinrich Schütz and J. S. Bach's motet Jesu, meine Freude.


Reformation 500 Program

 

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott            (chorale prelude)                Dieterich Buxtehude           

                                                                                                (1637-1707)

 

Thatcher Lyman, organ

 

            Versus I                                                                      Martin Luther

                                                                                                (1483-1546)

            Versus II                                                                     Johann Walther

                                                                                                (1496-1570)
            Versus III                                                                   Martin Luther

            Versus IV        (Hymnal No.                                       Johann Sebastian Bach

                                                                                                (1685-1750)

                                                                                               

(Choir and Audience)

 

Non moriar, sed vitam                                                          Martin Luther

Non moriar, sed vitam                                                          Ludwig Senfl

                                                                                                (1486-1543)

 

Hec dicet dominus/Circumdederunt me                           Josquin des Prez

                                                                                                (1450-1521)

 

Es ward eine Stille in dem Himmel                                     Christoph Demantius

                                                                                                (1567-1643)

 

Komm, heiliger Geist                                                             Heinrich Schütz

                                                                                                (1585-1672)

 

Robin Steitz, soprano

Andrea McGaugh, alto

Daniel McInerney, tenor

Okawa Tan, Tenor

Rayvin Moore, baritone

Ben Johns, bass

Willa Finck, violin

Paul Halberstadt, violin

Clara Hope Simpson, violoncello

Thatcher Lyman, organ

 

 

Intermission

 

 

Jesu, meine Freude                                                               Johann Sebastian Bach

 

            Jesu, meine Freude (chorale)

            Es ist nun nichts 

            Unter deinem Schirmen (chorale)

            Denn das Gesetz des Geistes

            Trotz, dem alten Drachen (chorale)

            Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich

            Weg mit allen Schätzen (chorale)

            So aber Christus in euch ist

            Gute Nacht, O Wesen (chorale)

            So nun der Geist

            Weicht, ihr Trauergeister

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