Samuel Capricornus: Opus Musicum

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The seven instrumental sonatas - which seemingly correspond with the same number of excerpts from the spiritual work of Samuel Capricornus (1628-1665) on this recording, as if in a playful allegory so typical of his music - they refer in their numerical symbolism to one of the happier periods in the life of the composer whose destiny is significantly connected with historical upheavals in Central Europe of the second third of the 17th century. Five of the seven spiritual vocal-instrumental compositions (Domine, ad adiuvandum me festina; Dixit Dominus; Magnificat; Amor tuus in nos; Iustorum animae) come from the collection Opus musicum, which Capricornus published under his name in 1655 in Nuremberg, at that time "the capital of Central European music printing”, at the printer Christoph Bernhard (active in 1654-1681).