Streaming release - Available April 14th.

My Heart is Filled with Longing: German Cantatas and Sinfonias for Holy Week

ARTEK will play 17th-century sacred music appropriate for the solemn time of Holy Week. Featured singer is countertenor Ryland Angel, accompanied by string ensemble. The music includes cantatas by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, Kapellmeister in Thuringia, whose massive output of operas, cantatas, chamber music and more was largely destroyed by fire after his death; and Johann Christoph Bach, the first cousin once removed of J. S. Bach and the most noted member of the Bach family before Johann Sebastian’s success. The final piece on the program is an instrumental version of the famous Passion hymn, Herzlich Thut mich verlangen (My heart is filled with longing) by Johann Fischer, a rarely-heard composer whose musical career took him to positions in no less than nine different locations, including Paris at an early age where he was a scribe for Jean-Baptiste Lully; and to Lüneburg briefly in 1700, at a time when J. S. Bach was also in Lüneburg.

Gwendolyn Toth ~ organ & director
Ryland Angel ~ countertenor
Vita Wallace ~ violin
Theresa Salomon ~ violin
Peter Kupfer ~ viola
Dan McCarthy ~ viola
Arnie Tanimoto ~ cello
Motomi Igarashi ~ violone
Adam Cockerham ~ theorbo