Special offer. Andrea Gabrieli: Motets & Organ Works
WESER-RENAISSANCE Bremen, Manfred Cordes
an augmented ensemble of seven vocalists and eight instrumentalists makes a grand and passionate noise far beyond the capabilities suggested by their mere numbers—and the musicianship is equally...
Special offer. Andrea Gabrieli: Motets & Organ Works
WESER-RENAISSANCE Bremen, Manfred Cordes
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an augmented ensemble of seven vocalists and eight instrumentalists makes a grand and passionate noise far beyond the capabilities suggested by their mere numbers—and the musicianship is equally...
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On their first CD featuring madrigals and canzonettas by Andrea Gabrieli, the WESER RENAISSANCE ensemble led by Manfred Cordes was already in its element. On SWR2 Radio Michael Stegemann commented: 'A most highly entertaining and successful CD. Perfect balance in the mixture of singers and winds, audio transparency of the polyphonic structures, great textual intelligibility'. And on the ensemble’s second Gabrieli CD, now with madrigals, psalms, and organ works by this master delighting so much in experimentation, his intention and wish to offer intelligent entertainment to his fellow human beings are clearly shown. By 1566 at the latest, Andrea Gabrieli was appointed to the coveted post of organist at St. Mark’s Cathedral, and already during his lifetime he was esteemed in particular because of his enormous versatility.
Contents and tracklist
- Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Christian Volkmann, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Edoardo Bellotti
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Christian Volkmann, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Edoardo Bellotti
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Jan van Elsacker
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Manfred Cordes
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Edoardo Bellotti
- Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Christian Volkmann, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Edoardo Bellotti
- Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Christian Volkmann, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Manfred Cordes
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Christian Volkmann, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Christian Volkmann, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Jan van Elsacker
- Manfred Cordes
- Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Jan van Elsacker
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
- Marie Luise Werneburg, Mark Williams, Marnix de Cat, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Christian Volkmann, Jan van Elsacker, Dominik Wörner
- Bremen Weser-Renaissance
- Manfred Cordes
Awards and reviews
March/April 2022
an augmented ensemble of seven vocalists and eight instrumentalists makes a grand and passionate noise far beyond the capabilities suggested by their mere numbers—and the musicianship is equally scrupulous and exquisite. Do not delay any longer in discovering the magnificent riches of this repertoire. Urgently, passionately recommended.
December 2021
Performing on a Pradella replica of a 17th-century northern Italian instrument, whose characterful tone matches Cordes’s early brass and wind for gusty breadth, [the organ works] sing with an explicit virtuosity absent in the more sober vocal music.
