Heinrich Albert's Pumpkin Hut Dorothee Mields, Hathor Consort & Romina Lischka

• Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654):
• 1 Scheidt: Galliard Battaglia à 5, SSWV 59 03:48
• Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672):
• 2 Schütz: Es steh Gott auf, SWV 356 06:00
• Samuel Scheidt:
• 3 Scheidt: Paduan Dolorosa à 4, SSWV 42 06:07
• Johann Hildebrand (1614 - 1684):
• 4 Hildebrand: Der V. Kriegs-Angst-Seufzer 02:04
• Samuel Scheidt:
• 5 Scheidt: Courant Dolorosa à 4, SSWV 47 02:17
• Heinrich Albert (1604 - 1651): Albert: Musicalische Kürbs-Hütte:
• 6 Albert: Musicalische Kürbs-Hütte: I. Mit der Zeit ich kommen bin 01:06
• 7 Albert: Musicalische Kürbs-Hütte: IV. Mensch, ich kann es leichtlich gläuben 00:27
• 8 Albert: Musicalische Kürbs-Hütte: VI. Sieh mich an und denke dran 01:12
• 9 Albert: Musicalische Kürbs-Hütte: IX. Die Zeit und wir vergehn 00:40
• 10 Albert: Musicalische Kürbs-Hütte: X. Ich und meine Blätter wissen 00:52
• Johann Bach (1604 - 1673):
• 11 Bach: Unser Leben ist ein Schatten 06:14
• Heinrich Schütz:
• 12 Schütz: Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist's (Prima pars), SWV48 04:28
• Heinrich Albert:
• 13 Albert: Jetzund liebet 01:02
• Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 - 1675):
• 14 Hammerschmidt: Suite a 5 in D: Gagliard 00:57
• Heinrich Albert:
• 15 Albert: Auf und springet 00:52
• Andreas Hammerschmidt:
• 16 Hammerschmidt: Suite a 5 in D: Sarabande 00:21
• Heinrich Albert:
• 17 Albert: In seiner Liebsten Armen 00:33
• Andreas Hammerschmidt:
• 18 Hammerschmidt: Suite a 5 in C: Gagliard 00:42
• 19 Hammerschmidt: Suite a 5 in C: Ballet 00:49
• Heinrich Albert:
• 20 Albert: Mein liebstes Seelchen, lasst uns leben 02:23
• Johann Nauwach (1595 - 1630):
• 21 Nauwach: Jetzund kömmt die Nacht herbei 02:44
• Heinrich Albert:
• 22 Albert: Ich steh in Angst und Pein 02:18
• 23 Albert: Das Leid ist hier 00:55
• Johann Hermann Schein (1586 - 1630):
• 24 Schein: Ruh-Begräbniss der kleinen Kinderlein 03:23
• 25 Scheidt: Paduan à 4, SSWV 43 03:56
• Samuel Scheidt:
• 26 Scheidt: Canzon à 4 Cornetto, SSWV 56 03:46
• Heinrich Schütz:
• 27 Schütz: Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich, SWV 354 03:53
• Samuel Scheidt:
• 28 Scheidt: Canzon à 5 ad imitationem Bergamasca Anglica, SSWV 64 04:44
• Heinrich Albert:
• 29 Albert: Lobet Gott in seinem Heiligtum 01:20
• Michael Jakobi:
• 30 Jakobi: Jauchzendes Friedensbeschlusslied 01:21
• Johann Hermann Schein:
• 31 Schein: Lehre uns bedenken 05:03
• Total Runtime 01:16:17

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Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was a rare haven of peace during the Thirty Years’ War thanks to its geographical location. Many people, including artists and musicians, fled there from the horrors of plague and war. Heinrich Albert, a pupil of Heinrich Schütz (his cousin) and Johann Hermann Schein, the Thomaskantor in Leipzig, was appointed cathedral organist in the city in 1630. His garden hut, overgrown with pumpkin vines and suitably dubbed the ‘pumpkin hut’ (Kürbishütte), became the meeting place of the Königsberg Circle of Poets: a refuge and a space for cutting-edge creativity, spared from direct involvement in the war.

Five musical tableaux, depicting different stages in the war, take the listener on an emotional journey and reflect the everyday emotions people of the period experienced: hope, fear, a longing for peace – but also despair and wrestling with faith in the face of the devastation of war.

Dorothee Mields, soprano
Hathor Consort
Romina Lischka, direction

Dorothee Mields
is one of the leading interpreters of 17th- and 18th-century music and is admired for her unique timbre and moving interpretations. In the 2020/21 season, Dorothee Mields will participate in several tours of the Collegium Vocale Gent. She also performs with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bach Academy Stuttgart, gives guest performances at the Salzburg Easter Festival and gives chamber music concerts with Stefan Temmingh and Hathor Consort.The soprano also regularly collaborates with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Toronto, The English Concert, Klangforum Wien and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, as well as with conductors such as Stefan Asbury, Beat Furrer, Michi Gaigg, Paul Goodwin, Philippe Herreweghe, Emilio Pomàrico, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Andreas Spering, Masaaki Suzuki and Jos van Veldhoven.

She is a welcome guest at international festivals such as the Bachfest Leipzig, Boston Early Music Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Wiener Festwochen, Händel-Festspiele Halle, Musikfestspiele Potsdam, Styriarte Graz, Niedersächsische Musiktage, Musikfest Bremen, Mainzer Musiksommer, Heinrich-Schütz-Musikfest, Thüringer Bachwochen and Mosel Musikfest. An important area of her artistic work is chamber music projects, of which "Duft und Wahnsinn" with Hille Perl and Lee Santana, "Birds" and "Inspired by Song" with Stefan Temmingh and Boccherini "Stabat mater" with the Salagon Quartet have been particularly successful. In recitals she also works with the Hamburger Ratsmusik, the Boreas Quartett, Lee Santana, Wiebke Weidanz and Lucius Rühl. With the G.A.P Ensemble she juxtaposes works by J. S. Bach and D. Shostakovich.Dorothee Mields gives master classes at the Bachwoche Stuttgart and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in Toronto, among others.A steadily growing discography with several award-winning recordings documents her artistic work. Particularly noteworthy are "Inspired by Song" and "Birds" with Stefan Temmingh, "Händel" with Hille Perl, "War & Peace" and Monteverdi's "La dolce vita" with the Lautten Compagney Berlin and Wolfgang Katschner (all dhm), as well as Bach's "Cantatas for Solo Soprano" with L'Orfeo Barockorchester and Boccherini's "Stabat Mater" with the Salagon Quartet (both Carus).

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