Gallus Dressler (1533-1580)
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
Fundamentum aliud nemo potest ponere
Die Toren sprechen in ihrem Herzen/Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl
Quicquid erit tandem mea spes

Martin Agricola (1486-1556)
Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Wolff Heintz (1490-1552)
Nu bitten wir den Heiligen Geist

Leonhard Schröter (1532-1601)
O lux beata Trinitas
Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
Verleih uns Frieden/Gib unserm Fürsten

Friedrich Weißensee (1560-1622)
Peccavi super numerum arenae maris
Cantate Domino
Nun sei dir Dank

Heinrich Grimm (1592-1637)
Herr, unser Herrscher

Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)
Merk fleißig auf/Warum betrübst du Dich mein Herz

Malachias Siebenhaar (1616-1685)
Ihr Kinder Israel

Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble
Manfred Cordes, direction

After Stralsund and Danzig, Magdeburg is the third stop on Manfred Cordes’ journey through the cities of the Hanseatic League. This stop not only takes him to a city quite far from the sea but also to the earliest period of Protestant church music. Magdeburg introduced the Reformation already in 1524, just seven years after Luther’s decisive act. Immediately, the transformation began of what the former monk from Eisleben cherished as a "gift and blessing from God" and saw as an effective means of preaching the Gospel. A genuine "Magdeburg School" emerged, with its representatives cultivating and developing the music of the new faith up until the Thirty Years’ War. This program follows that tradition, bringing to life the works of cantors from Martin Agricola to Heinrich Grimm, thus allowing compositions spanning approximately 120 years to resound once more.