Distler: Geistliche Chormusic - Motets, Op. 12 / Stegmann, Berlin Vocal Ensemble

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Cantate
Release Date
June 19, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DISTLER, HUGO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Berliner Vokalensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Stegmann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 19, 2020
    • UPC
      4012476570075
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CAN57007
    • LABEL
      Cantate
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Lass alles, was du hast, auf dass du alles nehmst!

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    2. Der kaiser

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    3. Der bischof

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    4. Der edelmann

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    5. Der arzt

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    6. Der kaufmann

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    7. Der landsknecht

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    8. Der schiffer

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    9. Der klausner

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    10. Der bauer

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    11. Die jungfrau

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    12. Der greis

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    13. Das kind

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    14. Die Seele, weil sie ist geborn zur Ewigkeit

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    15. Ich wollt, dass ich daheime wär

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    16. Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 12, No. 6: No. 1. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme …

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    17. Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 12, No. 7: In der Welt habt ihr Angst

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    18. Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 12, No. 8: Das ist je gewisslich wahr

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann

    19. Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 12, No. 9: Fuhrwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit

      Composer: Hugo Distler

      Ensemble: Berlin Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Bernd Stegmann


Nobody has here a lasting place. This line from the spoken text of the Totentanz (Dance of Death) op. 12, No. 2 could serve as the motto for many of Distler’s sacred works. In particular, the motets of the “Geistli che Chormusik” (Sacred Choral Music) op. 12 deal pre dominantly with man’s transiency and his hope for salvation. Only three pieces, not included on the present re cording, deal with other themes. What significance does this all too familiar look at the here after, this “solicitation” for an escape from life have for us? Is this turning away from the world to be emulated, considering that it was set to music by someone who suffered badly from periodically recurring bouts of mental distress, by someone who was unable to deal with the political pressures in a time “in which God has apparently relinquished his power to the Evil One” (Distler), and in the end broke under the strain of this life? That it was not just a matter of inspiring hope in some thing unreachably distant can be seen in the text he wrote for his oratorio “Die Weltalter”: “The human being, in spite of all his faults, at the bottom of his heart still good and strong, summons the arms of the gods... Thus, humanity was saved once again from its imminent down fall through the mercy of the powers above, in that they granted mortals insight into the necessity of an unconditional reconciliation of human beings among them selves, between mankind and all living creatures, and above all between mankind and God.”