Where can one find finer words from friends than those of the Psalms of Praise or of Thanksgiving? \u2026 Then again, where can you find more profound, more miserable, pitiable words of sorrow than in the Psalms of Lamentation?\u2019, Martin Luther asks in his preface to the Psalms, noting the richness of this biblical compilation. Since Luther\u2019s days, polyphonic psalm settings have had a secure place in the history of German church music. This demonstrates that the oldest, tried and tested songs of Christianity have lost none of their relevance even today. The Windsbacher Psalms, too, can be understood through this tradition. \u2018There is, indeed, hardly anything more beautiful than the sound of a young men\u2019s choir\u2019, Karl-Friedrich Beringer claims. Consequently, the Windsbacher Psalms are a welcome opportunity for him to present the special sound qualities of the men\u2019s voices from the Windsbacher Knabenchor (Windsbach Boys Choir) – without the boys\u2019 voices. Helmut Duffe had set the first psalms in 1977 during his time as cantor the Studienheim, the choir\u2019s boarding school. They were intended for the daily celebration of Matins, the boarders\u2019 morning service. Emanuel Vogt, on the other hand, initially composed his psalm settings for a choir in the Central Franconian city of Neuendettelsau, which provided the music for services and other spiritual celebrations. Karl-Friedrich Beringer sees the psalm settings of both composers as part of the Windsbacher Knabenchor\u2019s core repertoire, and performed them regularly: thus Beringer made the Windsbach Psalms a fixed liturgical component of the \u2018Lorenz Motet Services\u2019, which are held in Nuremberg regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Where can one find finer words from friends than those of the Psalms of Praise or of Thanksgiving? \u2026 Then again, where can you find more profound, more miserable, pitiable words of sorrow than in the Psalms of Lamentation?\u2019, Martin Luther asks in his preface to the Psalms, noting the richness of this biblical compilation. … Continue reading Helmut Duffe and Emanuel Vogt:| Windsbach Psalms II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1315,1317],"tags":[733,825,827,826,817],"class_list":["post-9999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choir","category-music","category-orchestra","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-prager-kammerorchester","tag-rebecca-martin","tag-sibylla-rubens","tag-windsbacher-knabenchor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions\/10000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}