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Polychoral Splendour Music from the four galleries of the Abbey Church of Muri

Polychoral Splendour Music from the four galleries of the Abbey Church of Muri

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TitlePolychoral Splendour Music from the four galleries of the Abbey Church of Muri
Authoraudite classical
Duration5:17
File FormatMP3 / MP4
Original URL https://youtube.com/watch?v=WcupDIav11I
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The young Heinrich Schütz's four-year sojourn with Giovanni Gabrieli proved to be one of the most fruitful educational journeys to Italy undertaken by German musicians, artists and writers. Following his return, Schütz presented his Psalms of David in 1619: an impressive result of his encounter with the Italian musical style. These Teutsche Psalmen auf Italienische Manier ("German Psalms in the Italian Manner") are consistently based on the polychoral style with which Schütz had become acquainted in the Venetian tradition of cori spezzati. As first organist of St Mark's, Venice, Gabrieli included in his compositions the architecture of this ecclesiastical building in a unique way, placing the singers and instrumentalists, who were divided into as many as four choirs, in facing galleries, thus achieving remarkable sonic and spatial effects.

On this recording the Cappella Murensis and the ensemble Les Cornets Noirs make use of the four galleries in the Abbey Church at Muri, following the historic model: in the works for two, three and four choirs, voices and instruments blend with a total of four continuo organs, producing a unique sound. The inclusion of the two large historic Bossart organs ("Epistle" and "Gospel Organ") as continuo instruments creates an additional dynamic palette. Rather than being constantly present as soloists, the vocal parts are often integrated, as instruments, into the overall sound, thus appearing all the more prominent in solo passages. This supports the compelling contrast between expansive tutti and concertante sections characteristic of this music.
With magnificent Sonatas and Canzonas by Giovanni Gabrieli, Les Cornets Noirs, led by the cornettists Gebhard David and Bork-Frithjof Smith, once more showcase themselves as one of the leading European ensembles in the field of early baroque music.

With Italy in mind, the abbots and master builders designed the octagonal nave of the Abbey Church at Muri with its four galleries especially for polychoral music-making. The Cappella Murensis under its founder Johannes Strobl and Les Cornets Noirs regularly perform here using several choirs spaced widely apart.

CAPPELLA MURENSIS:
Siri Karoline Thornhill, Stephanie Petitlaurent - Sopran
Rolf Ehlers, Jürgen Ochs, Mirko Ludwig, Manuel Warwitz – Tenor
Simon Schnorr, Kees Jan de Koning - Bass

LES CORNETS NOIRS:
Gebhard David, Bork-Frithjof Smith - Cornetto
Amandine Beyer, Cosimo Stawiarski - Violino
Simen van Mechelen, Henning Wiegräbe, Eckart Wiegräbe, Detlef Reimers, Franck Poitrineau, Joseph Bastian - Trombone
Markus Märkl, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher David Blunden, Angelika Hirsch - Organo
Matthias Müller, Tore Eketorp - Violone in G

Johannes Strobl - musical director

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): Warum toben die Heiden, SWV 23 (Psalmen Davids)
Giovanni Gabrieli (ca. 1555-1612): Canzon primi toni a 8, C 170 (Sacrae Symphoniae)
Heinrich Schütz: Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?, SWV 415 (Symphoniarum sacrarum tertia pars)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon quarti toni a 15, C 185 (Sacrae Symphoniae)
Heinrich Schütz: Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott, SWV 417 (Symphoniarum sacrarum tertia pars)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon VIII a 8, C 202 (Canzoni et Sonate)
Heinrich Schütz: Ich danke dem Herrn von ganzem Herzen, SVW 34 (Psalmen Davids)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Sonata XVIII a 14, C 211 (Canzoni et Sonate)
Heinrich Schütz: Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel, SWV 411 (Symphoniarum sacrarum tertia pars)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni a 10, C 180 (Sacrae Symphoniae)
Heinrich Schütz: Zion spricht: Der Herr hat mich verlassen, SWV 46 (Psalmen Davids)
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon septimi toni a 8, C 171 (Sacrae Symphoniae)
Heinrich Schütz: Alleluja! Lobet den Herrn, SWV 38 (Psalmen Davids)
Heinrich Schütz: Ach Herr, straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn, SWV 24 (Psalmen Davids)
Heinrich Schütz: Wohl dem, der den Herren fürchtet, SWV 30 (Psalmen Davids)
Heinrich Schütz: Siehe, es erschien der Engel des Herren Joseph im Traum, SWV 403 (Symphoniarum sacrarum tertia pars)

recording: July 25 - 28, 2011
recording location: Abbey Church of Muri
equipment: Sennheiser MKH 20, MKH 40, Neumann KM 130, KM 140, Brüel & Kjær 4006, RME Micstasy, ADI8QS
Stax SRM Monitor, Dynaudio Air 20, ME Geithain RL 906
recording format: pcm, 44,1 kHz / 24bit
recording producer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Ludger Böckenhoff
editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Bernhard Hanke
video, art direction and design: AB•Design

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