Breaking Free (part 2): Martin Luther's Revolution
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Originally posted by doversoul1 View PostThis seems to be starting from next week. For once, Early music will be in the spotlight (so I hope…)
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One to add (Sunday feature)The Rev Lucy Winkett, a trained singer and Bach enthusiast, takes the listener on a musical tour of the Reformation. The programme opens in the Georgenkirche in Eisenach where Martin Luther and J.S Bach were both choirboys. Lucy visits Torgau, where the first Lutheran cantor, Johann Walther, set Luther's famous words to music and spearheaded the educational reforms which led to an explosion of choral singing throughout Saxony. The programme ends in Leipzig at the Thomaskirche, where Bach wrote his famous cantatas and other works based on Lutheran liturgy.
Music for this programme has been specially recorded with the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, under the direction of Dr Geoffrey Webber.
The first "Breaking free" didn't make much of an impression - the music of the Second Viennese School
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