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Spiritual Standards - Songs Inspired by Martin Luther

Spiritual Standards - Songs Inspired by Martin Luther

Markus Burger / Jan von Klewitz

Label: Challenge Records
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917341720
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Catalog number: CR 73417
Releasedate: 10-02-17
- jazz musicians Markus Burger (piano) & Jan von Klewitz (sax) improvise on Baroque music while preserving its integrity

- as ambassadors of the Luther Decade they arranged most of Martin's Luther's hymns. (Martin Luther, the German monk and composer who lived from 1483–1546.)

- the melodies are played with spiritual depth that lets the listener experience this timeless music in a 21st century interpretation



 
Critically acclaimed German jazz performers Markus Burger and Jan von Klewitz blend modern improvisation with the art of interpreting faith based Baroque music while preserving its integrity. Staying very near to the original melodies and canti firmi, the artists improvise in a linear manner returning to one of the root principles of jazz. For the past four years Burger and von Klewitz have been traveling the US and Europe as musical Ambassadors of the Luther Decade. For these tours Burger has arranged most of Martin Luther’s hymns into his signature sounding arrangements for saxophone and piano. Luther has written captivating melodies that withstood the test of time and have inspired the worlds greatest composer Johann Sebastian Bach to arrange them in some of the most beautiful four voice chorales known to mankind.