Chemnitz Cantatas
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With the first CD works arrive at the first publication, which never made it to a musical performance since its premiere. The area of the Ore Mountains in Saxonia is amazingly rich ofmusical sources, which today are more or less well kept in archives.

CD was recorded with

• Heinrich-Schütz-Choir, Chruch St. Petri in Chemnitz
• Ute Drechsel, Josephine Eichler (soprano)
• Monika Straube (alto)
• Karl-Heinz Fleischer (tenor)
• Thomas Mäthger, Günther Schmidt (bass)
• Dr. Werner Pelz, Dieter Brückner (trumpet)

Musical banquet in Chemnitz
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On paintings, which go back into the antiquity, we meet table scenes, on which musicians are often to be seen beside the eaters. May it be, that the palate joys should get an increase by the simoultaneous real treat for the ears or may it be, that one, satisfied filled up and brought to a cheerful mood by wine, fells more drawn to singing and dancing: History refers to a table culture, which extends far beyond simple food intake.

Festive music from Saxony

Beside works of saxon composers the third CD offers also an impression of selected organs in Chemnitz and the sounds of different church bells in Chemnitz.

CD was recorded with

• the A-Cappella-Choir Freiberg
• Steffen Walther (Eule-organ, Kreuzkirche)
• Matthias Süß (Jehmlich-organ, Trinitatis church)
• Wolfgang Schubert (Schuester-Organ, Church St. Andreas)
• Günther Schmidt (bass)
• Thomas Irmen, Michael Weese (trumpets)

Who comes to the Ore Mountains today, finds most diverse forms of miner's music, which - now art-fairly regenerated - represent a music culture, from which after all comes the proverbial singing joy of the inhabitants of this region. However their earliest testimonies are buried and forgotten. The request of this CD is to draw attention on them.

CD was recorded in with

• the boy'S choir Freiberg
• A-Cappella-Choir Freiberg
• Thomas Mäthger (bass)
• Freiberger Bergsänger: Thomas Degner (tenor)
• Steffen Döhner (bass)
• Andrea Kunze (striking mechanism)

Christoph Demantius

On this CD the Convivium Musicum Chemnicense presents exclusive works by Johann Christoph Demantius.

Apart from important music for the use in divine services Demantius left a weighty school work, which is found spreading in the whole Saxonia far beyond its lifetime. Beside the practical guidance for singing and composing it contains also one of first german-latin musical dictionaries.

CD was recorded with

• A-Cappella-chamber-choir Freiberg