Leonhard Lechner: Geistliche Festmusik: Festive Mass & Motets

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Release Date: 11th Mar 2013
Catalogue No: CHR77367
Label: Christophorus
Length: 63 minutes

Lassus: Domine Dominus noster

Work length2:57

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Ensemble Officium
Wilfried Rombach
Recorded: 15-16 June 2012
Recording Venue: Ev. Kirche, Reutlingen-Gonningen, German

Gabrieli, A: Praeludium secundus tonus

Work length1:09

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Ensemble Gabinetto Armonico
Wilfried Rombach
Recorded: 15-16 June 2012
Recording Venue: Ev. Kirche, Reutlingen-Gonningen, Germany

Lechner, L: Missa Domine Dominus noster

Work length18:05

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$6.50

Ensemble Gabinetto Armonico, Ensemble Officium
Wilfried Rombach
Recorded: 15-16 June 2012
Recording Venue: Ev. Kirche, Reutlingen-Gonningen, Germany

Kyrie

Track length2:16

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Gloria

Track length3:11

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Credo

Track length5:43

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Sanctus - Benedictus

Track length3:07

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Agnus Dei

Track length3:48

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Lechner, L: Quid chaos

Work length10:53

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Ensemble Officium
Wilfried Rombach
Recorded: 04 August 2011 and 02 November 2011
Recording Venue: Peter und Pauls-Kirche, Mossinge, Germany

Lechner, L: Motectae sacrae

Work length15:53

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Ensemble Officium
Wilfried Rombach
Recorded: 04 August 2011 and 02 November 2011
Recording Venue: Peter und Pauls-Kirche, Mossinge, Germany

Memor esto verbi tui

Track length2:38

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O fons vitae - Sitio Domine

Track length6:15

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In convertendo

Track length3:40

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Paratum cor meum

Track length3:20

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Lechner, L: Kronborg-Motetten

Work length9:17

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Ensemble Gabinetto Armonico, Ensemble Officium
Recorded: 04 August 2011 and 02 November 2011
Recording Venue: Peter und Pauls-Kirche, Mossinge, Germany

In Laudem Regii Fontis: Fontem perpetuis

Track length3:52

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In Connexum Regiarum Literarum: Quam bene conveniunt

Track length2:37

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In Symbola Regis et Reginae: Mein Hoffnung zu Gott

Track length2:48

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Lechner, L: Laudate Dominum, quoniam bonus est

Work length5:21

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Ensemble Gabinetto Armonico, Ensemble Officium
Wilfried Rombach
Recorded: 15-16 June 2012
Recording Venue: Ev. Kirche, Reutlingen-Gonningen, Germany

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Leonhard Lechner has until now been rather ignored on recorded releases; he is only known as the composer of secular German lied movements or his rather academic "German Proverbs of Life and Death". His origins are largely unknown; he was probably a pupil of Orlando di Lasso and he was primarily active in Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

The present CD intends to present Lechner in a new light, with the ensemble officium introducing, mostly as premiere recordings, festive music for ceremonial occasions scored for large ensembles. The central work is the monumental 24-part festive motet "Quid chaos", composed for the Nuremberg Patrician wedding in 1582 and the corresponding festive mass "Dominus noster". The 15-part festive motet for three choirs, "Laudate dominum", was also composed for a wedding, this time in Dresden in 1604. The programme is supplemented by the so-called Kronborg motets, which are quite unique: they were written for the consecration of an ornate bronze fountain ordered from a Nuremberg brass foundry by the Danish king for Kronborg Castle. The delivery of the fountain was delayed for years and became an "affair of state", whereupon the Nuremberg City Council commissioned a major motet of praise from Lechner in order to appease the king. The fountain was lost just a hundred years later when the Swedes took it as booty – today, only the music written for its consecration bears witness to its splendour.

Leonhard Lechner: Geistliche Festmusik

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