Captive Society

The history of colonial America is a story of extraordinary scope, with Europeans, Africans, and the native peoples of North America interacting in a drama of settlement and conflict that lasted nearly three centuries. In the midst of it, no one would have predicted that the profoundly different English colonies along the East Coast, separated by religion, politics, economics, and many other factors, would eventually join to form the United States of America.

Heinrich Albert (1604-1651) - Musikalische Kürbishütte
Cantus Cölln / Konrad Junghänel, lute & direction
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 256 MB | Full Artwork: 167 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi # HMIOM 906-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1990
Genre: Classical | Style: Renaissance, Baroque, Secular, Vocal

"Heinrich Albert was a German composer and poet of the 17th century. He was a member of the Königsberg Poetic Society (Königsberger Dichterkreis). As a song composer, he was strongly influenced by Heinrich Schütz. (…) The poets would convene at the Kürbishütte, an arbor in Albert's garden, where the Linde dyke flows into the river Pregel. The council of Kneiphof had given the garden as a present to the organist in 1630. In his garden, Albert grew pumpkins and gourds, and the friends would carve their bucolic noms de plume into the gourds…"