Motets From The Florilegium Portense
Capella De La Torre; Chorwerk Ruhr
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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
Nikolaus Heyduck
Christoph Timpe
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
Amy Lin
Pia Davila; Bernhard Reichel; Ensemble Musica getutscht
Laefer Quartet
Carine Tinney; Ziv Braha; ensemble feuervogel
Fanie Antonelou; Sofya Gandilyan
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Hans-Christoph Rademann, NDR Chor Hamburg
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale