Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe; Carsten Wiebusch; Peter Gortner
Release Date: 04 February 2022
Label: Christophorus
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4010072774606
Description
Sacred music for girls' (women's) choir with organ can almost only be found in France in the period of late Romanticism and early Modernism.
This repertoire, influenced by French Catholicism, is presented by the girls' choir of the Cantus Juvenus singing school in Karlsruhe under the direction of Peter Gortner with wonderful lightness and beauty of sound.
The centrepiece is the "Messe basse", a youth work by Gabriel Faure, whose simple clarity makes it easy to imagine in a French nunnery. A series of five other motets by Faure complement the mass.
The most significant work on the recording is the "Litanies a la Vierge Noire", which Francis Poulenc wrote during a stay in the face of the Black Madonna figure of Rocamadour, to whose convent he had withdrawn in 1936 during a serious crisis.
Furthermore, motets by Claude Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Maurice Durufle and Jean Langlais can be heard.
The girls' choir is accompanied by Carsten Wiebusch on the great Klais organ of the Christuskirche in Karlsruhe, who complements the programme with works for solo organ by Messiaen, Alain and Dupre.
Tracklisting
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Kurt Meier; Howard Griffith; Royal Northern Sinfonia
Francesca Venturi Ferriolo; Salon Violet
Luca Cervoni; Concerto Romano
Max Hattwich; Johannes Wieners; Jonathan Boudevin
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Miriam Feuersinger; Klaus Mertens
Sebastian Mirow; Les Escapades
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari (conductor)
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
Frieder Bernius, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
