Ensemble Devotio Moderna / Volkhardt - Praise & Glory: Music from Medingen Convent - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) is considered the most widely read French poet ever. His extremely fine feeling for sensuality, melody and pictoriality, as well as for the sound of language, is omnipresent in his poems. Although this makes it very difficult to translate, he is virtually predestined for song compositions. In addition to classics of French melodies such as Gabriel Faure and Claude Debussy, soprano Karola Pavone and her accompanist Boris Radulovic dedicate their recording for COVIELLO to some otherwise underrepresented song composers such as Gabriel Dupont and Reynaldo Hahn, whose settings of the verses Verlaine, by the way, greatly appreciated. Album Tracks 1. La Chanson Bien Douce 2. La Chanson Des Ingenues 3. Les Ingenues 4. L'incredule 5. A Une Femme 6. Le Foyer 7. Epithalame 8. Apaisement 9. Chevaux de Bois 10. Serenade 11. Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur 12. Le Chavalier Maltheur 13. C'est L' Extase Langoureuse 14. Colloque Sentimental 15. En Sourdine 16. Les Faux Beaux Jours 17. Chanson D'automne 18. Marine 19. La Neige 20. Le Son Du Cor 21. Prison 22. Un Grand Sommeil Noir

Homage to the powerful was nothing unusual in the Baroque era; Thomas Selle, however, took it a bit further he paid tribute to several members of his prince's family with musical InchLaudationes. Selle combined the compendium with Inchlittle sacred concerts,Inch since secular power and religion went hand in hand. In these concerts, the everyday worries of the rural population, who hoped for consolation in religion, are the subject of discussion. Thomas Sella's work thus occupies a special position. The story is told on different levels, neo-Latin poetry meets Bible verses, combined in a highly intellectual way with subtexts and set to moving music. It unites longing for peace and the romance of chivalry, religiosity and absolutism, cries of triumph and contemplation, archaism and humanism, pathos and charity, luxury and humility. Thomas Selle covers the entire spectrum of human nature in all it's contradictions. Thus, this work remains highly topical even in our time.

Album Tracks 1. Liebster Jesu, Wir Sind Hier - BWV 731 (2-7) 2. Concerto in G Major - RV 312(R) Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-9, 11) 3. Prelude in F Major - BWV 854 (8,9) 4. Concerto in F Major - RV 442 Per Flauto, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-9) 5. Ach, Was Soll Ich Sünder Machen - BWV 770 (11,12) 6. Concerto in E minor - RV 445 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-6,11,12) 7. Kommst Du Nun, Jesu, Vom Himmel Herunter Auf Erden - BWV 650 (2, 3, 5, 11) 8. Concerto in C Major - RV 444 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-7, 10, 11) 9. Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ - BWV 639 (2, 5, 11) 10. Concerto in C minor - RV 441 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-6, 9, 11) 11. Alle Menschen Müssen Sterben - BWV 643 (2-5) 12. Concerto in G Major - RV 443 Per Flautino, Archi E Basso Continuo (1-7,11)