Membra Jesu Nostri (The Limbs of our Lord Jesus) is the single largest and most compelling of the 110 or so sacred vocal works left us by Dutch-German master Dietrich Buxtehude. Buxtehude is better known for his organ music and is rightfully acknowledged as a formative influence on Johann Sebastian Bach. However, Buxtehude's vocal output is ...
Since the additional movements of the Roman Catholic Mass (Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Credo) that appear in his B minor Mass were excluded, Bach's four missa breves (short masses) are essentially two-movement Lutheran works. Naturally, Bach being Bach, he subdivided the expansive Gloria into five shorter movements; set the texts as arias, duets, and ...
Harmonia Mundi's Biber: Litaniae de Sancto Josepho, featuring Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino under Konrad Junghänel, is one of the finest recordings ever made of Salzburgian Baroque sacred choral music. Recorded in Melk Abbey in Austria, these combined period instrument groups pack a real wallop inside the Melk Abbey's cavernous interiors, and ...
Heinrich Schütz's final set of Symphoniae Sacrae was composed in 1650, as Germany was emerging from the chaos of the Thirty Years' War. With the exception of the magnificent Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?, SWV 415, these pieces for five to eight vocal parts with instrumental ensemble are less well known than the composer's earlier sacred ...
Since this disc was originally released in 1997, recordings of Dietrich Buxtehude's vocal music have remained scarce. In fact, German lutenist and conductor Konrad Jünghänel and his Cantus Cölln have remained foremost among the music's champions. These cantatas deserve to be better known. Unlike Buxtehude's organ music, which points directly to ...
Giovanni Rovetta was Claudio Monteverdi's successor at St. Mark's cathedral in Venice, a fact that by itself should have accorded him more attention than he has received from performers up to this 2001 West German Radio recording by the Cantus Cölln, reissued in an attractive budget-priced release by Harmonia Mundi in its Musique d'abord series. ...
Harmonia Mundi's two-disc set called The Essential Bach does indeed provide a clear view of the essential Bach in a compact package even if it cannot hope to represent the fullness of the composer's output. Starting with a suitably sparkling performance of the opening movement of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin ...
At first glance, one should take note that this disc by the redoubtable Cantus Cölln with Concerto Palatino under Konrad Junghänel is devoted to Virgilio Mazzocchi and not to his better known elder brother Domenico. Virgilio Mazzocchi was a native of Civita Castellana and began his career as a church musician in the cathedral there; with his ...
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