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Super flumina Babylonis
composer
author of text
Psalm 136 (137)
Recordings
'Knüpfer: Sacred Music' (CDH55393)
Details
Movement 1: Super flumina Babylonis
Movement 2: Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem
Movement 3: Exinanite, usque ad fundamentum
Super flumina Babylonis
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A similarly dense and expressive work such as Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht in deinem Zorn is Knüpfer’s setting of Psalm 137, Super flumina Babylonis (‘By the waters of Babylon’). The gloomy text receives its great intensity from the two cornetts and three sackbuts which accompany the four-part vocal ensemble. A distinctive feature is that these wind instruments play only in the tutti sections, whereas the inner verses (performed largely by soloists) as well as the short ritornelli are played only by the five-part string ensemble. The melancholy atmosphere of the opening grows to a relentless rage and cursing of Babylon in the concluding fugato.

from notes by Peter Wollny © 2000
English: Viola Scheffel

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Details for CDH55393 track 13
Super flumina Babylonis
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-00-16013
Duration
3'56
Recording date
15 September 1999
Recording venue
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Ben Turner
Recording engineer
Philip Hobbs
Hyperion usage
  1. Knüpfer: Sacred Music (CDA67160)
    Disc 1 Track 13
    Release date: May 2000
    Deletion date: May 2009
    Superseded by CDH55393
  2. Knüpfer: Sacred Music (CDH55393)
    Disc 1 Track 13
    Release date: September 2011
    Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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