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Reviewer: Brian Robins ‘Conversations with God’? Well, perhaps more accurately addresses to God, there being only one true dialogue among this fine collection of 17th-century German sacred works. Interspersed are organ works by Scheidemann and Hammerschmidt, a string sinfonia of grave beauty by Rosenmüller and, incongruously in this company, one of the sinfonias from Monteverdi’s Orfeo, lazily listed simply as ‘sinfonia’.
The overall standard of the vocal works is extremely high, with highlights including Telemann’s Ach, Herr (TWV7:3), an early cantata in concerto style, several impressive pieces by the underrated Andreas Hammerschmidt, and the most substantial work, Nikolaus Bruhns’ four- voice cantata Hemmt eure Tränenflut, which makes impressive use of mimetic effect over the course of its five verses.
As the name suggests, Le Concert Etranger is a vocal and instrumental ensemble formed in 2006 from young performers of various nationalities by Israeli director Itay Jedlin; this would seem to be its first recording. It’s an impressive debut, too, featuring highly assured instrumental playing, and some excellent solo and one-voice-per-part (as all this music demands) ensemble singing, the latter finely judged in works such as Hammerschmidt’s Erbarm dich mein, an intense, chromatic stile antico setting of Psalm 51. Aided by exemplary sound, all the music is indeed vividly projected, and would have been still more impressively had diction been clearer. The notes are inadequate, concerned only with the topic that gives the CD its name while telling the reader nothing about the music or the fascinating stylistic mix employed by German 17th-century composers.
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