Concerts from around the country, recorded by Concertzender (Classical & Early Music). Live recordings of concerts with Early Music, made by the Concertzender. Ordo Virtutum and Tasto Solo during the Festival Early Music 2018.
A) Tasto Solo conducted by Guillermo Pérez
De la Rue, Josquin, Brumel: Déplorations
Elegies, mourning songs, Requiems: in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, where death stood so close to life, music round guilt and sorrow was very common. Tasto Solo collected the most beautiful pieces with a tear from the era of French-Flemish great masters like Josquin Desprez and Alexander Agricola.
Gregorian
1. Libera me, Antiphona Officium Defunctorum
Josquin des Prez
2. Proch Dolor / Pie Jhesu
Anonymous
3. C’est ma fortune
Josquin des Prez
4. Nymphes des bois / Requiem aeterna
Anonymous
5. Ave Maris Stella (organ instrumental)
Gregorian
6. Lux aeterna, Antiphona Officium Defunctorum
Alexander Agricola
7. Sanctus “Comme femme”
Pierre de la Rue
8. Dies Illa / Cueurs desolez
Tasto Solo conducted by Guillermo Perez
recording: 31 August 2018, St. Peter’s Church, Utrecht
technique & production: Wijnand de Groot
Ordo Virtutum
B) Ordo Virtutum conducted by Stefan Morent
Cistercians: a Liturgy for St. Bernard
During the Festival Oude Muziek the German ensemble Ordo Virtutum performed twice and focussed on two opposite traditions of the Burgundian monastic life.
In their second performance, leader Stefan Morent shows the other side of Burgundian monasticism with songs from the 12th century Citeaux. The unadorned lines of the Cistercian Gregorian sound in a liturgy for St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
Bernard of Clairvaux
9. Ad vesperas: Versiculus – Antiphona ad Magnificat – Invitatorium
10. In primo nocturno: Responsorium I, II, III en IV
11. In secundo nocturno: Responsorium V, VI, V en VIII
12. In tertio nocturno: Responsorium IX, X, XI en XII
13. Benedicamus domino
Ordo Virtutum: Matthias Deger, Simon MacHale, Hubert Mayer, Giacomo Schiavo, Csongor Szántó: singing. Stefan J. Morent: singing and conducting
recording: 25 August 2018, St. Willibrord’s Church, Utrecht
technique: Frans de Wolff, production: Wijnand de Groot
C) Fabulous Fringe Ensemble Hesperi
James Oswald
14. from Airs for the seasons: winter, London 1761: The phillyrea; The hawthorn
Alexander Munro
15. from A collection of the best Scots tunes, 1732: Variations on ‘Bonny Jeane’
Carlo Tessarini
16. from XII Solos for a German flute, an oboe, or violin, 1732:
Sonata VIII, opera secunda
Adagio – Allegro – Largo – Presto
James Oswald
17. from The Caledonian pocket companion:
The highland laddie – The highland lassie – To dauntin’ me
Walter Claggett
18. Solo V
Largo – Allegro moderato – Minuet Grazioso – Giga
Thomas Alexander Erksine (Earl of Kellie)
19. The Duchess of Buccleuch’s minuet
James Oswald
20. from Airs for the seasons: summer, London 1755-1761: The poppy
Ensemble Hesperi: Mary-Jannet Leith: recorder. Thomas Allery: harpsichord.
