Weckmann: Sacred Motets & Lamentations

Cantus Cölln, conducted by Konrad Junghänel

Matthias Weckmann (1618-1674): Sacred Motets & Lamentations

Hamburg, 1674: to his contemporaries, the death of Matthias Weckmann seemed to herald the end of a glorious period. In his post as organist of the Jacobikirche since 1655, the composer had breathed new life into the city’s musical scene with his Collegium Musicum. Among his finest sacred works is an astonishing setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, Wie liegt die Stadt so wüßte (How doth the city sit solitary).