Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae / German Gospel Motets

Magnificent rarities: Melchior Franck’s gospel motets offer important testimony to Reformation religious liturgical practice at the beginning of the seventeenth century as well as compelling illustrations of biblical teaching texts. Franck translates the words of scripture into musical pictures promising to go straight to the listener’s heart in this rendition by the Northern German Chamber Choir. For each Sunday and feast day Melchior Franck wrote a motet, and conductor Maria Jürgensen has selected a representative sampling from throughout the church year for her Northern German Chamber Choir.