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 ...
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 ...
This disc, originally made in 1989 and led by early music pioneer Konrad Junghänel, stands up well and was a strong candidate for reissue. The Symphonia Angelica of the title was a printed madrigal collection issued by Hubert Waelrant, who was also a composer and included his own effort, Tra romor tamburi. That piece, and all the others, are ...
Heinrich Schütz is the Rodney Dangerfield among the great masters; despite his enormous output and unchallenged status as the father of the German Baroque, Schütz is truly only popular in German-speaking lands and to a lesser degree in England. Although Schütz's music is recorded with frequency and by ensembles of the highest caliber, the Schütz ...
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 ...
Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe founded the vocal ensemble La Chapelle Royale in 1977 with a primary focus on music of the French Baroque, but the group has since branched into the repertoires of other countries and eras. In this release, the group sings Heinrich Schütz's three-movement Musikalische Exequien (Musical Funeral Rites) of 1635, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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