Johann Hermann Schein's Israelsbrünnlein (Fountains of Israel), published in the year 1623 and dedicated to the Leipzig city government that later nurtured the art of Schütz and Bach, is designated a set of sacred madrigals for five voices and continuo. The printed music indicated further that they were composed "in a special graceful Italian ...
Even in context of the original instruments and historically informed performance practice movement, there are other ways to perform Bach's B minor Mass than the way Philippe Herreweghe performs it. To name only the most obvious alternatives, there's the austerely inward Leonhardt approach, the extravagantly outward Gardiner approach, and the ...
Orlande de Lassus' Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales (Penitential Psalms of David) is the Renaissance master's setting of seven Davidic psalms -- 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 -- sometimes referred to as the "psalms of confession." As the result of a proclamation of Pope Innocent III, who died in 1216, these particular psalms are read during Lent, ...
Long one of the finest living interpreters of Bach's sacred music, Philippe Herreweghe here adds two secular cantatas to an already distinguished discography. In the festive Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten and the celebratory Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten, Herreweghe leads his Collegium Vocale, Ghent in performances of rare ...
This is rather unusual; Baroque expert and advocate of French music and Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas Philippe Herreweghe takes up the cause of Kurt Weill's early, neglected concert works. Weill is among a small number of twentieth century composers that Herreweghe conducts from time to time, Stravinsky and Schoenberg being the other main ones. ...
Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent have already made a couple of other great Schütz recordings. There's the heartrending Musikalische Exequien from 1987 and the awe-inspiring Geistliche Chormusik from 1994. But good as those recordings were, they aren't in the same league as this 2005 recording of Schütz's opus ultimum, his ...
Philippe Herreweghe and the Choeur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale 1998 recording of Purcell's celebratory masterpiece may be more a Vivat! Radieuse Cecile, Vivat! than Hail, Bright Cecilia, but it is still one of the all-time great recordings of the work. Herreweghe more than almost any other conductor of the past 20 years captures the heights ...
As Oscar Wilde once averred, all bad art is sincere, but it doesn't necessarily follow that all sincere artists are bad. Philippe Herreweghe is sincere to the souls of his shoes and he is anything but bad. Indeed, that he is so self-consciously sincere only makes him a better conductor, because one gets the sense that Herreweghe would rather die ...
Schoenberg's ostensible reason for transcribing Mahler's symphonic song cycle Das Lied von der Erde for chamber orchestra was to make it playable at concerts of Schoenberg's private society for the performance of contemporary music. In the straitened years after the end of the First World War and the breakup of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire, ...
In a time when Bach cantatas are recorded in big bunches, it's a pleasure to find a single-disc grouping, beautifully selected and performed. Weinen, Klagen... (Weeping, Lamentation...) presents three cantatas with a common theme and plan. The theme of lamentation in the face of suffering and death transmuted into the comfort of Christ is a common ...
Harmonia Mundi's reissue of performances of Philippe Herreweghe leading the Chapelle Royale Opera Orchestra & Chorus includes two motets by Lully and one by his countryman and contemporary Henry Dumont. The French motet of the period closely resembled the structure of the Bach cantata, having multiple movements, and using soloists, both ...
Mendelssohn's sacred works are wholly sincere expressions of his deeply held Lutheran faith. If, after the passing of the nineteenth century in the Great War, the rhetorical oratorios Elijah and Paulus came to seem slightly over-done to younger audiences, that was the perhaps understandable reaction of clear-eyed youth to religiously sentimental ...
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