17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław Stephan MacLeod, Gli Angeli Genève & Wrocklaw Baroque Orchestra

• Asprilio Pacelli (1570 - 1623):
• 1 Sacrae cantiones: Dum esset rex 06:24
• Adam Jarzębski (1590 - 1649):
• 2 Canzoni e concerti: Concerto secondo 02:04
• Mikołaj Zieleński (1560 - 1620):
• 3 Communio Introibo ad altare Dei: Dominica in Sexagesima 03:48
• Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663):
• 4 Sonate symphonie canzoni, Op. 8: Sonata per l’Organo. Violino o cornetto 04:27
• Daniel Bollius (1590 - 1642):
• 5 Dialogo a due voci e 6 stromenti, Domine puer meus jacet in domo 04:59
• Franciszek Lilius (1600 - 1657):
• 6 Exultabit cor meum 03:24
• Giovanni Valentini (1582 - 1649):
• 7 Sonata à 5 Voci 04:23
• Paul Schaefer (1580 - 1645):
• 8 Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt – Jubileum Nuptiale 06:58
• Tobias Zeutschner (1621 - 1675):
• 9 Der Herr gebe euch vom Tau des Himmels 08:47
• Marco Scacchi (1600 - 1662):
• 10 Donna voi vi credete ze zbioru Madrigali a cinque: O Tod, du darfst nicht glauben 04:30
• Giovanni Legrenzi (1626 - 1690):
• 11 Sonate a due e tre, Op. 2: Sonata VII La Donata a due, violino e violone o fagotto 03:27
• Crato Bütner (1616 - 1679):
• 12 O quanta in coelis laetitia 08:13
• Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665):
• 13 O Salutaris ze zbioru Pegaso: O Jesu mi dulcissime 04:03
• Philipp Friedrich Buchner (1614 - 1669):
• 14 Plectrum musicum Op. 4: Sonata XIV. 2 Violin. e Fagotto 04:37
• Martin Mayer (1844 - 1914):
• 15 Heilig ist der Herre Zebaoth 07:41
• Total Runtime 01:17:45

Info for 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław

Seventeenth-century Wrocław (then Breslau) was one of Europe’s important musical centres. Its three main Protestant churches – St. Elisabeth, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Bernardine – collected extensive music libraries. Their repertoire was shaped both by prints imported from Italy and Germany, and by works composed by local cantors and organists employed in church ensembles. A separate collection of nearly 400 prints from 1610–55 reposed in private hands for most of the century. It had probably been initiated by Ambrosius Profe, the organist of the Church of St. Elizabeth in 1633–49, and later owned by Daniel Sartorius, a teacher in the church gymnasium. After the latter’s death the music prints were incorporated into the Biblioteca Rhedigeriana, a collection of rare manuscripts, prints, paintings, sculptures, coins and minerals assembled by a Breslau patrician Thoms Rhediger (1540–76). It was deposited in a room over the sacristy at St. Elisabeth Church, bequeathed to the city in 1645 and opened to the public in 1661. The Stadtbibliothek, newly established in 1856–67, took over all these music collections. During World War II, however, they were taken away from the city and dispersed after 1945. Some items have not been found until now. The majority of the prints returned to Wrocław. Numerous manusripts were considered lost until the late 1980s, when they reappeared in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. They found their way there from Moscow, where some items of the former Breslau library still remain.

Attempting to draw a panorama of seventeenth-century sacred music from Breslau, we present on this album works that are mostly unique, preserved only in the four collections of Wrocław provenance. The pieces stem from the period 1608–76 and were composed by Italian, German, Polish and local Breslau musicians. They give witness to the city’s broad musical horizons and its former artistic splendour.

The two earliest works come from prints that once belonged to the Church of St. Bernardine. Dum esset rex, a motet scored for twenty voices divided into five choirs, concludes the collection of Sacrae cantiones by Asprilio Pacelli, who after receiving his education in Rome served as maestro di cappella (1602–23) to the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa. The monumental Offertoria et communiones totius anni by Mikołaj Zieleński, maestro di cappella of the Polish primate Wojciech Baranowski at Łowicz, also adhere to the late 16th-century style. In some of the communiones, however, Zieleński entrusts the entire polyphonic fabric to the organ, and only one voice out of four is intended to be sung with virtuoso embellishment.

"Attractive accounts of works by German and Italian composers living in 17th-century Wrocław, a well as by local Polish cantors and organists." (BBC Music Magazine)

Gli Angeli Geneve
Concerto Palatino
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra
Stephan MacLeod, conductor

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