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‘Away with the mumbling of your songs, and neither do I want to hear the sound of your lyre’. These words of the Zurich Reformer Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) signalled a sea-change in the music life of his city. He wrote them in 1523; a year later, all pictures were ripped from the walls of the Zurich churches and the playing of the organ was banned. In 1525, the singing of hymns in church was forbidden too. Just a few years earlier, the city’s two main churches, the Grossmünster and the Fraumünster, had vied with each other to see who could build the most splendid, most expensive organ. But on 9 December 1527, all organs in the city’s churches were torn down. They were not replaced until the 19th century. In the Middle Ages, high feast days such as the anniversary of the death of the city’s patron saints had been celebrated with much pomp and elaborate music, with travelling pilgrims praising the ‘wonderful’ masses that were sung. But the Reformation brought this to an end. Almost all sources of the city’s earlier musical life were either lost or intentionally destroyed.
Disc No: GMCD 7175
Price: Sek. 157
Name: Zurich Arise!
 

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Composer Opus Name Key Performer
Zwingli, Huldrych (1484–1531)   Herr, nun heb den wagen selb   The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge - Geoffrey Webber
  Anonymous   Clemens Hör organ book 39. Ob allem Wert uff diser Erd  
  Anonymous   Clemens Hör organ book 10. Wo ich ausfahr  
Senfl, Ludwig (ca.1486-1542/43)   Clemens Hör organ book 3. Allein din Huld  
Senfl, Ludwig (ca.1486-1542/43)   Clemens Hör organ book 5. Kein Lieb ohn’Treu  
  Anonymous   Clemens Hör organ book 46. Scaramella  
Hofhaimer, Paul (1459–1537)   Clemens Hör organ book 113. Nach Willen dein  
Hofhaimer, Paul (1459–1537)   Clemens Hör organ book 122. A.du min Trost  
Greiter, Matthias (1495-1550)   Clemens Hör organ book 21. Herbei,herbei was Löffel sei  
  Anonymous   Clemens Hör organ book 4. Anfang ist lieben  
  Anonymous   Clemens Hör organ book 33. Jetzt scheiden  
Isaac, Heinrich (1450-1517)   Clemens Hör organ book 42. Innsbruck  
  Anonymous   Clemens Hör organ book 2. Je ne scay  
Schmidlin, Johannes (1722-1772)   Auf, Zürich, auf!,from the Freud-Cantata  
Schmidlin, Johannes (1722-1772)   Ich kan dir nicht vil geben  
Schmidlin, Johannes (1722-1772)   Ich senke mich in dein Erbarmen  
Schmidlin, Johannes (1722-1772)   Komm,o Demuth!  
Walder, Johann Jakob (1750-1817)   Was sorgest du?  
Walder/Egli   Nicht ist,Jesus,deines Gleichen  
Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1735)   Mein Jesus,A und O  
Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1735)   Ach,was kann die Welt  
Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1735)   Vater,lass dein Herze brechen  
Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1735)   O ew’ger Fürst der Cherubinen  
Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1735)   Welt,ich achte deiner nicht  
Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1735)   Lobe Zion   
Bachofen, Johann Caspar (1695-1735)   Das alte Jahr  
Schmidlin, Johannes (1722-1772)   Trauer-Cantata for Johannes Fries(1759)  
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