No. 4 — In the Cabinet of Wonders with Scheidemann and Schop: Music for Organ and Violin from 17th-Century Hamburg

“An unalloyed delight, rendered with technical dispatch, a total understanding of the requisite style, and obvious affection… Highly recommended.”
—Fanfare Magazine, 2026

“This album invites the listener into a corporeal experience, one that breathes, sweats, remembers, and occasionally stumbles forward in exhilaration… By its end, the recording has quietly redrawn the boundaries of historical performance. This is no reconstruction, but a living metabolism, a system dependent on circulation, exchange, and constant adjustment.”
—Between Sound and Space, 2026

“…as imaginative as it is thoughtful, as well recorded as it is expertly performed.”
—MusicWeb International, 2025

“Davids is a wonder… and Yearsley excels as his always supportive partner.”
—Textura, 2025

Artists

Repertoire

Martin Davids, violin | David Yearsley, organ

Johann Schop (c. 1590–1667) —
Intrada à 5 (from Erster Theil newer Paduanen, Hamburg, 1633/1640)

Schop, after Alessandro Striggio (1536/37–1592) —
Nasce la pena mia (from ‘t Uitnemend Kabinet, Amsterdam, 1649)

Schop, after John Dowland (1563–1626) —
Lachrime Pavaen (from ‘t Uitnemend Kabinet, 1646)

Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663) — Galliarda ex D

Intonatio (improvisation by Davids and Yearsley)

Scheidemann — Christ lag in Todesbanden, 2 verses

Schop — sine titulo (from ‘t Uitnemend Kabinet, 1646)

Scheidemann, after Giovanni Bassano (1561–1617) — Dic nobis Maria

Scheidemann — Canzon in G

Scheidemann — Englische Mascarada

Schop — Almande Mortiel (from ‘t Uitnemend Kabinet, 1646)

Schop — Præludium (from ‘t Uitnemend Kabinet, 1646)

Fantasia sopra Werde munter, mein Gemüte
(improvisation by Davids and Yearsley on a chorale by Schop)

Schop — Pavaen de Spanje (from ‘t Uitnemend Kabinet, 1646)

Notes on the Album

Album Credits

Recorded January 7th and 8th, 2023 at Cornell University, Anabel Taylor Chapel 

Session engineering, mixing and mastering by Joel Gordon

Album production and design by Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

Photo of Martin Davids by Emily Rivera

Photo of David Yearsley by Elizaveta Zabelina

Photo of Martin Davids and David Yearsley by Daniel Stein

Photo of Organ by Cornell University Photography

Booklet cover image by Edwaert Collier, Vanitas Still Life, 1662 (Metropolitan Art Museum) 

The project was completed with generous support of the Cornell University Department of Music and the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards