4039956921127

Motets From The Florilegium Portense

Capella De La Torre; Chorwerk Ruhr

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Format: CD

Cat No: COV92112

Release Date:  14 January 2022

Label:  Coviello

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4039956921127

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

  • Description

    The great "composer of the millennium" Johann Sebastian Bach stands like a solitary rock in the landscape of music history; there is less talk about where he comes from and what influenced him stylistically.

    Chorwerk Ruhr embarked on a search for traces with highly interesting results: the young Johann Sebastian also listened to and studied works that were already around 100 years old.



    In any case, during his later time as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, he saw to it that the collection of motets Florilegium selectissimarum Cantionum was purchased anew - it was used so frequently in lessons under his aegis that the sheet music was completely worn out!



    The collection of the early Baroque master and school cantor Erhard Bodenschatz, first published in 1603, illustrates in songs mostly by German or Italian masters the then new compositional technique of the Baroque in a clearly comprehensible manner.

    "Chorwerk Ruhr, a 28-voice chamber choir of soft and subtle tones, can blossom into more emphatic gestures as required in interpretations moulded tastefully by Florian Helgath. Some works receive work premiere recordings and vocal performances are juxtaposed with purely instrumental treatments from the fabulous shawm, cornet sackbut, bass dulcian, violone, organ and theorbo of Capella de la Torre." – Choir & Organ

    "sung with affecting sincerity by ChorWerk Ruhr. […] Florian Helegath's diligently sculpted performance demonstrates why Bach still used Florilegium Portense at the Thomaskirche more than a century after its publication." - Gramophone

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Asprilio Pacelli : Cantate Domino a 8
      • 2. Moritz Landgraf von Hessen : Hosianna filio David a 8
      • 3. Francesco Biancardi : Ave gratia plena a 6
      • 4. Tarquinio Merula : Ciaconna a 6
      • 5. Jacobus Gallus : Ecce quomodo moritur a 4
      • 6. Marco Antonio Ingegneri : Duo seraphim a 8
      • 7. Andrea Gabrieli : Exsultate justi a 8
      • 8. Heinrich Hartmann : Ist nicht Ephraim dein Teurer
      • 9. Johann Kaspar Kerll : Intrada Battaglia
      • 10. Hyronimus Praetorius : Tulerunt Dominum meum a 8
      • 11. Hyronimus Praetorius : Fuit homo missus a Deus a 5
      • 12. Orlando di Lasso : Tristis est anima mea a 5
      • 13. Hyronimus Praetorius : Gloria tibi a 7
      • 14. Jacobus Gallus : Jerusalem gaude
      • 15. Giovanni Battista Stefanini : Christus resurgens
      • 16. Giovanni Gabrieli : Jubilate Deo a 8
      • 17. Jacobus Gallus : Media vita in morte sumus
      • 18. Hans Leo Hassler : Pater noster
      • 19. Alessandro Orologio : Intrada
      • 20. Orlando di Lasso : Deus in adiutorium a 6