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Höfisches Divertissement in Tirol um 1600
€ 20,00 Add to basketIn addition to the Italian madrigal and the French chanson, the German polyphonic song, the so-called Gesellschaftslied, was also cultivated at the Innsbruck court under Archduke Maximilian III.
The large number of works in the surviving chapel inventory is impressive. The Ensemble Polyharmonique presents a selection of these social songs that were enjoyed at court. -
Johannes Passion
Christoph Demantius€ 20,00 Add to basket…the St. John Passion, composed in 1631, stands out like a monolith and is regarded as a highlight of early Baroque passions…
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Auferstehungshistorie
—Heinrich Schütz€ 20,00 Add to basketThe first oratorio work by Heinrich Schütz impressively captures the unspeakable and mysterious nature of the idea of resurrection in music.
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Bach Family
€ 20,00 Add to basketThe “Family Affairs” with 15 works from four generations provide an impressive testimony to this unique musical dynasty.
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Ad Vesperas
€ 20,00 Add to basketThe present recording is devoted to two manuscripts of the polyphonic repertoire used in the Liege orders in the first half of the 17th century: the “Grand livre de chœur de Saint-Lambert” and the “Livre d’orgue des frères croisiers”.
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Zwölff madrigalische Trost=Gesänge
Wolfgang Carl Briegel€ 20,00 Add to basketWer Gott vertraut; Ach! Herr lehre doch mich; Valet will ich dir geben; Ach wie gar nichts; Du aber Daniel; Ich habe dich ein klein Augenblick verlassen; Si bona suscepimus; Der Gerechte; Wir sind getrost; Ach lieben Christen seid getrost; Es ist ein Elend; Wahrlich ich sage euch
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Dresden Vespers
Johann D. Heinichen€ 20,00 Add to basketA Protestant Pastor’s Son and a Catholic Saint –
Johann David Heinichen’s Music
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Historia Nativitatis – A Christmas Oratorio
€ 25,00 Add to basketA Christmas Oratorio after Heinrich Schütz SWV 435.
This Christmas Oratorio is kind of a plea for a free handling of the repertoire of the 17th century and is meant to inspire today’s musicians to prepare their own versions and variations of the Weihnachtshistorie and/or other works for concert performances or for worship services. Your initial courage will result in happiness.
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Musicalische Seelenlust
— Tobias Michael€ 20,00 Add to basketIn 2015, the debut disc “MUSICALISCHE SEELENLUST” was released. The collection of sacred madrigals by Thomaskantor Tobias Michael (1592-1657) was released on the Raumklang Records label and was enthusiastically received by international critics.
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Requiem — Francesco Cavalli
Motets — Alessandro Grandi€ 20,00 Add to basket“This is truly a masterpiece, every part of which is a jewel, forming a long row of pearls. The music is imbued with unfathomable spiritual depth.”
Robert Chase: Dies Irae – A Guide to Requiem Music, 2003“The level of inspiration in Francesco Cavalli’s Missa pro defunctis is in no way inferior to that to be felt in the Mozart Requiem”
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Markuspassion
— Johann Georg Künstel€ 25,00 Add to basketAnyone who wants to know where Johann Sebastian Bach possibly got his first ideas for his Passion dramas should take a look at the St Mark Passion by Johann Georg Künstel (c1645-1694).
With its characterisation, the expressive turbae, the 17 plot-bearing chorales and the words of Christ accompanied by strings, it anticipates many ideas that the great Thomaskantor later immortalised in an unsurpassable manner in his epic Passion settings. -
Chor-Music auff Madrigal-Manier
— Andreas Hammerschmidt€ 20,00 Add to basket“This third disc by Ensemble Polyharmonique is an impassioned plea to devote even more attention than before to the diversity of epochs.”
With a selection from the 31-number Chor-Music auff Madrigal-Manier (1652/53), combined with duets and tercets from Andreas Hammerschmidt’s Opus primum Musicalischer Andacht Erster Theil (1638), this first recording shows the formal diversity of the composer, who was mainly active in Zittau, and clarifies his ambition for creative handling of genre patterns.