Past meets present, baroque meets beat

Live recording - Hammerschmidt heard anew

On 20 August 2025, the 350th anniversary of the death of baroque composer Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611-1675) was marked by the performance of works from Zittau as they had never been heard before - in the original and in bold, cross-genre new compositions. The artistic intensity of this evening was so overwhelming that the decision was made to record this special work - live and immediately.

On 20 May 2026, the time has come: the ensemble led by Winnie Brückner and Benedikt ter Braak will once again face the audience at the Kühlhaus in Görlitz and bring the spirit of the Baroque era into the here and now - to capture it on vinyl.

Look forward to an evening of voices, electronics, jazz and early music. The result is a cosmos of sound that builds bridges between the spirit of optimism after the Thirty Years' War and our own changing times.

© Photo: David Pinzer

KATJA KUNZE Soprano
WINNIE BRÜCKNER mezzo-soprano and recomposition
PHILIPP CIESLEWICZ alto
PEDRO MATOS Tenor
FLORIAN HARTMANN Bass
BENEDIKT TER BRAAK piano and recomposition
SUSANNE STOCK Accordion
STEFAN DEDEK Trombone

Programme

Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611-1675)
Arrangement: Benedikt ter Braak
Have mercy on me

Andreas Hammerschmidt
Arrangement: Winnie Brückner
Be welcome

Andreas Hammerschmidt
Who sow with tears

Andreas Hammerschmidt
Arrangement: Benedikt ter Braak
The sun has hidden itself

Andreas Hammerschmidt
Arrangement: Benedikt ter Braak
How lovely are your dwellings

Andreas Hammerschmidt
Be welcome, Jesulein

Andreas Hammerschmidt
Arrangement: Winnie Brückner
O sweeter, O friendlier - All my thoughts

Andreas Hammerschmidt
Arrangement: Benedikt ter Braak
Away, Venus, away

Andreas Hammerschmidt
The word became flesh

Winnie Brückner
after Andreas Hammerschmidt's Das Wort ward Fleisch The Promise

Winnie Brückner
after Andreas Hammerschmidt's Die mit Tränen säen Still he sows

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Görlitz, 02827