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ID: RK2803
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
Subcollection: Ensemble
From the time of Christianity’s introduction into Europe until the end of the first millennium, apocalyptic images of the End of Time and the Last Judgement were widespread, both in texts and in the visual arts. In Sequentia’s new program, ‘Fragments for the End of Time,’ Sequentia explore the musical world of these powerful texts. The instruments used in this concert include reconstructions of Germanic lyres, an early medieval triangular harp, and copies of medieval transverse flutes.
Artist: Benjamin Bagby; Norbert Rodenkirchen |
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ID: RK2801
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
Subcollection: Ensemble
The Burgundian Court of Charles the Bold was one of the finest that European cultural history can boast. Music played an important part in that culture and a star line up of early music specialist musicians perform music from that period of 1433-1477. |
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ID: RK2706
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Traditional
Subcollection: Spanish Songs
Various songs and music by Velardiniello, Cortese, Ortiz, Narvaez, Trabaci and Dalza.
Once again Raumklang presents a fascinating programme allowing us to glimpse into the music of the 16th century. This time at the Spanish Court in Naples. Songs, Organ pieces, Dances, all played and sung expertly by members of Ensemble Oni Wytars. Many of these fine compositions sound extremely lyrical and modern for the time they were written.
Recorded at a live performance given June 2007. |
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ID: RK2705
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Since 2003, world-class musicians have met annually in Kärnten, Austria, at the “TRIGONALE - Festival of Early Music.” This 2 CD set brings together the highlights of last year’s festival.
Recorded live, the performances range from music of the Middle Ages, including motets by Machaut, through the Renaissance and Baroque eras to interpretations of the music of Mozart and Haydn. The line up of artistes is first class and included the Hilliard Ensemble, La Fenice/Jean Tubéry, and il Giardino Armonico, all offering an impression of the festival’s lively atmosphere. |
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ID: RK2704
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Oboe
The young musicians of the Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra come from fourteen countries. The highlight of this CD is undoubtedly the well-known Oboe Concerto by Tomaso Albinoni, wonderfully played by Baroque oboist Alfredo Bernardini. The youthful freshness and the enthusiasm that the young musicians bring to this recording make this a thrilling musical experience. |
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ID: RK2703
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
Musik der Hamburger Pfeffersäcke, The term "Pfeffersäcke" was a derogatory name for the spice merchants who provided the financial support for the arts in Hamburg. The compositions on this CD are all known to have been sponsored by the Hamburg merchants. Soprano Yeree Suh joins the Elbipolis Baroque Orchestra Hamburg in these lively and dedicated performances. |
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ID: RK2702
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Organ
Sebastian Knebel plays on the seventeenth-century Coswig organ of the beautiful Alte Kirche. Since this is the only surviving organ of its type Knebel has chosen a programme of music written in the period the organ was built. This is a well thought out programme which explores the tonal nuances of the restored Coswig organ and rounds off with selected pieces for harpsichord. |
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ID: RK2605
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Ioculatores; Ars Choralis Coeln; Amarcord; Jörg Peukert (narr); Sabine Heller (hp)
This deluxe presentation celebrates the eighth centenary of its subject. Here called “St. Elizabeth of Thuringia,” but better known as St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), this daughter of the king and queen of Hungary was betrothed to the future margrave of Thuringia in infancy and brought up at that court. She was 14 when the marriage was celebrated, and they had three children before he went off to the Crusades, dying along the way at Otranto in 1227. Elizabeth, already moved by the ideals of the newly founded Franciscan order, devoted herself as Landgravine to the needs of the poor. As a widow, she left the inhospitable court to live in Marburg, where she established a hospital and labored for the sick until her death at the age of 24. Celebrated for her works on behalf of the poor and sick, she was canonized four years later. Devotion spread from Thuringia as far as Cambrai and her native Hungary. Schola Hungarica recorded two chant Offices for her feast (19:4), one from Cambrai, where her heart had been enshrined, and the other from Warburg, a source also copied in Hungary.
Unlike that collection of Office chants, this program is a wide-ranging group of vocal and instrumental pieces from the period, all related closely to the life of the saint. Three separate ensembles take their turns, in addition to Jörg Peukert, who reads from an early biography of the saint with aural punctuation by a harpist. Besides an antiphon, a responsory, a sequence, and a hymn from the Office, we hear vernacular songs by the monk of Salzburg and Walther von der Vogelweide, an Italian lauda, and instrumental pieces by Ioculatores. On two tracks Ioculatores ensemble joins with one or the other group. The tracks spoken in German run over 20 minutes without printed text. The booklet offers a detailed guide to the program, with notes and summaries of each track in addition to the full texts with translations, and it is lavishly illustrated. Everything has been achieved on the highest level to make this a worthy tribute on the saint’s anniversary. As a gift package, it would be a compliment to the taste of the recipient.
FANFARE: J. F. Weber |
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ID: RK2604
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Medieval Period
Selections from The Song Book of Anna von Köln
This collection of devotional songs in Latin and the vernacular (indeed, in several medieval dialects) was compiled about 1500 in Cologne, an example of devotio moderna, the late-medieval movement to adopt a lifestyle midway between secular society and the religious orders. The title of the disc, “the rose of Jericho,” refers to a Macaronic song in low German and Latin honoring the Blessed Virgin, who was invariably venerated while her Son was worshipped. A few of these songs have appeared in collections of the LP era. Konrad Ruhland’s group sang “Jure plaudant omnia,” included here. Several other songs recorded in that era are not duplicated here, but this seems to be the first focused collection drawn from this source.
Late-medieval collections of anonymous vocal music of this type have been largely overlooked in music history courses and texts in favor of identifiable composers. Reinhard Strohm, in The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500 (Cambridge, 1993), made a major breakthrough in devoting the entire Part 3 of his four-part book to the subject. The Songbook of Anna of Cologne (D-B 8o 280) has been edited by Salmen and Koepp (Schwann, 1954), so it should be accessible at least to performers and scholars. Even so, Strohm barely mentions the collection in a paragraph devoted to 15th-century compilations of this type, next to the slightly earlier Wienhäuser Liederbuch, which was given a whole disc on a Psallite LP of 1976.
The 16 songs from this source that are recorded here make a delightful program. All are sung by the women’s group of 11 singers and five players, while four instrumental selections from the Glogauer and Locheimer songbooks are inserted at intervals. Some of the songs are sung solo, and some are lightly accompanied on period instruments. The acoustics of the chapel cast a warm glow around the voices. Anonymity is a burden, as evident from the attention devoted to composers (Perotinus) and works (the “Farewell” symphony of Haydn) not so disabled. Anyone who comes across this disc is going to be entranced by the unexpected pleasure that it affords. Give it a chance and you’ll turn back to it again and again. The last time I was so unexpectedly delighted was on hearing “Ninna Nanna” by Montserrat Figueras (26:6). That’s the kind of disc it is.
FANFARE: J. F. Weber
Ars Choralis Coeln - Ensemble for Medieval Music / Ensemble für mittelalterliche Musik / Ensemble de musique médiévale
Cora Schmeiser, Uta Kirsten, Petra Koerdt, Mikari Shibukawa, Pamela Petsch, Inga Schneider, Amanda Simmons, Stefanie Brijoux, Elodie Mourot, Katherine Hill, Karolina Brachmann - Gesang | voice | chant
Lucia Mense - Blockflöte, Glocken, Gesang | recorder, bells, voice | flûte à bec, cloches, chant
Elisabeth Seitz - Hackbrett | dulcimer
Johanna Seitz - Harfe | harp | harpe
Susanne Ansorg - Fidel | fiddle | vielle
Maria Jonas - Leitung | direction; Gesang, Drehleier | voice, hurdy-gurdy | chant, vièle à roue |
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ID: RK2602
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Christmas Music
Subcollection: Piano
Warum es gut ist, alte Weihnachtslieder neu zu hören
Wenn sich Schneeflöckchen leise rieselnd ans Fenster setzt, die Glocken süß erklingen und am Baum die Lichter brennen, dann ist - so verheißen es die Lieder - Weihnachten. Üblicherweise hören wir Weihnachtslieder als Klangkulisse auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt oder in der Schnäppchen-Ecke im Kaufhaus. Verkaufsstrategie ist hier: weichgespülte Melodie. Doch spätestens am Nikolaustag haben wir diese Hintergrundsmusik satt.
Auf der Raumklang-CD „Engelslicht und Dornenschatten“ mit neunzehn ausgewählten Weihnachtsliedern kann und muss man hinhören. Die zum Teil altbekannten Lieder kommen uns dabei merkwürdig neu zu Ohren. Indem Christine Maria Rembeck ihnen nachlauscht, die Melodie nur in kleinen Nuancen verändert, einzelne Textpassagen herausgreift und sie durch ihre eigene Klavierbegleitung neu interpretiert. Engelsgleich berührt uns der Gesang Christine Maria Rembecks, eingebettet in das breite Klangsprektrum des Klaviers und ergänzt durch die warmen Celloklänge Emilia Gliozzis.
Lieder für eine stille Weihnachtszeit
Christine Maria Rembeck* - Gesang, Klavier
Emilia Gliozzi - Violoncello, Celesta / violoncelle, célesta |
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