Heinichen: Selected Music for Vespers

Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729) is known today principally as the author of the ‎great 1728 treatise Der General-Baß in der Composition, a comprehensive discussion ‎of the practice of continuo realization and of its place in the art of composition. But ‎Heinichen also occupied one of the most prestigious musical posts in Europe, that of ‎kapellmeister to the Royal and Electoral court in Dresden. This volume contains a ‎selection of the music he composed for the office of Vespers in the court church during ‎the 1720s. Second only to the Mass in importance in Catholic liturgy, the different ‎components of the Vespers service—the psalms, Marian antiphons, hymns, and ‎Magnificat—afforded composers great opportunity for a variety of dramatic expression, ‎an opportunity that Heinichen fully exploited. Heinichen’s settings use a mixture of ‎chorus and vocal solos and are all with instrumental accompaniment.‎

Beatus vir

Confitebor tibi Domine

Dixit Dominus

In exitu Israel

 ‎1. In exitu Israel‎

 ‎2. Non nobis Domine‎

 ‎3. Simulacra gentium‎

 ‎4. Domus Israel‎

 ‎5. Gloria‎

Laetatus sum

Lauda Jerusalem

Laudate pueri

Nisi Dominus

 

Magnificat in G

 ‎1. Magnificat

‎ 2. Quia respexit‎

‎ 3. Fecit potentiam‎

‎ 4. Suscepit Israel‎

‎ 5. Gloria‎

‎ 6. Sicut erat in principio‎

Magnificat in B-flat

‎ 1. Magnificat‎

‎ 2. Quia respexit‎

‎ 3. Fecit potentiam‎

‎ 4. Suscepit Israel‎

‎ 5. Gloria‎

 

Ave maris stella

Jesu Redemptor omnium

 

Alma Redemptoris Mater

Ave Regina

 ‎1. Ave Regina‎

‎ 2. Gaude Virgo gloriosa‎

‎ 3. Vale‎

Regina caeli in G

‎ 1. Regina caeli‎

‎ 2. Quia quem meruisti‎

‎ 3. Ora pro nobis‎

‎ 4. Alleluia‎

Regina caeli in D

‎ 1. Regina caeli‎

‎ 2. Quia quem meruisti‎

‎ 3. Resurrexit sicut dixit‎

‎ 4. Ora pro nobis‎

‎ 5. Alleluia‎