Weser-Renaissance Bremen Cordes - Cantatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On their first album featuring madrigals and canzonettas by Andrea Gabrieli, the WESER RENAISSANCE ensemble led by Manfred Cordes was already in it's element. On SWR2 Radio Michael Stegemann commented InchA most highly entertaining and successful album. Perfect balance in the mixture of singers and winds, audio transparency of the polyphonic structures, great textual intelligibility.Inch And on the ensemble's second Gabrieli , now with madrigals, psalms, and organ works by this master delighting so much in experimentation, his intention and wish to offer intelligent entertainment to his fellow human beings are clearly shown. By 1566 at the latest, Andrea Gabrieli was appointed to the coveted post of organist at St. Mark's Cathedral, and already during his lifetime he was esteemed in particular because of his enormous versatility. Album Tracks 1. Deus Misereatur Nostri À 12 2. Toccata Primi Toni 3. Kyrie Eleison À 5 - Christe Eleison À 8 - Kyrie Eleison À 12 4. Recercare Arioso 5. Egredimini À 8 6. O Gloriosa Domina À 6 7. Sancta Maria À 6 8. Ave Regina À 7 9. Ricercare in C 10. Iubilate Deo À 8 11. Sanctus À 12 12. Canzon Ariosa 13. Domine, Ne in Furore Tuo À 6 14. Deus, Qui Beatum Marcum À 8 15. Exultate Iusti À 10 16. Angelus Ad Pastores Ait À 4 17. Angelus Ad Pastores 18. Domine Deus Meus À 7 19. Benedicam Dominum À 12

Gottorf Castle is not only one of Schleswig-Holstein's most important architectural edifices; it also plays a significant role in German cultural history. Vol. 3 in the Manfred Cordes-led Weser-Renaissance ensemble's new cpo series 'Music for Gottorf Castle' is dedicated to the psalms and cantatas of Georg Österreich (1664-1735). Today approximately seventy skillfully wrought church or sacred cantatas from his compositional oeuvre continue to be extant. Österreich famously bequeathed to posterity a music library without which we would hardly know anything at all about the pre-Bach period. Album Tracks 1. Sie Ist Fest Gegrundet 2. Herr Jesu Christ, Wahr' Mensch Und Gott 3. Dixit Dominus Domino Meo 4. Der Gerechten Seelen Sind in Gottes Hand 5. Und Jesus Ging Aus Von Dannen

The WESER-RENAISSANCE ensemble had two goals in mind in it's concert series InchBreslau - A City in the Heart of EuropeInch the first was to offer musical enjoyment and the second was to remember an old cultural environment that had been forgotten for many decades. The music manuscripts and printed editions discovered in the Berlin State Library attest to the great diversity and high quality of music culture in what was once the capital of Silesia. InchDie Geburt unsers Herrn and Heylands Jesu ChristiInch (The Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ), a Christmas narrative by Tobias Zeutschner, who was active at Breslau's principal churches St. Bernhardin and St. Mary Magdalene, forms the focus of the present selection from these sources in a program entitled InchWeihnachten i'm Breslau des 17. Jahrhunderts - Festmusik in der Kirche St. Maria MagdalenaInch (Christmas in Seventeenth-Century Breslau - Festive Music in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene). This early example of a Biblical history composition is richly scored for eighteen voices.