Te Deum laudamus: Music on the Freiberg Cathedral Angel Instruments from 1594 Ensemble Freiberger Dom-Music

• 1 Cantate dominum 03:49
• 2 Ad te levavi 04:16
• 3 Kyrie 02:41
• 4 Si bona suscepimus di manu Domini 06:19
• 5 Missa super mon coeur se recomande: Gloria 03:21
• 6 Te Deum laudamus 13:45
• 7 Missa super mon coeur se recomande: Credo 06:42
• 8 O lux beata Trinitas 04:44
• 9 Missa super mon coeur se recomande: Sanctus 03:10
• 10 Cantiones sacrae sex vocum: O Sacrum convivium 02:56
• 11 Missa super mon coeur se recomande: Agnus Dei 04:02
• Total Runtime 55:45

Info for Te Deum laudamus: Music on the Freiberg Cathedral Angel Instruments from 1594

When Freiberg was experiencing its “second silver rush,” an atmosphere promoting intellectual development emerged in this region, and its middle-class residents did not miss the opportunity to found a local school, thus responding to the initiative taken by Mayor Ulrich Rülein of Calw. Born of the humanistic spirit in 1515, the Freiberg School numbers among Saxony’s oldest and most important educational institutions – together with the Kreuzschule in Dresden, Thomasschule in Leipzig, and Ratsschule in Zwickau. At the suggestion of Freiberg’s cathedral music director Albrecht Koch, we are now releasing sacred music from the Freiberg Latin School Library on Freiberg instruments from the time of this repertoire’s composition and thus rendering audible a practically unknown and forgotten sound world. As Koch himself has stated, “The desire to perform music from the library of Freiberg’s secondary school does not so much mean the elaboration of local color and the presentation of forgotten masters to the public. Rather, it is astonishing how cosmopolitan Freiberg music was during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The cathedral music, which maintained close ties to the then Latin school, of course played a leading role here. The center of the concert is thus occupied by the Te Deum of Rogier Michael, one of the leading Saxon chapel masters prior to Heinrich Schütz. The program is complemented by music by many masters whose works were collected and preserved in Freiberg, including Athanasius Kirchner, Leonhard Lechner, and Orlando di Lasso. It was only natural to combine this music with the magnificent Freiberg body of Renaissance instruments and to have it performed in its original setting. At the same time, however, the intention was to make this previously so-little-investigated form of authentic musical performance more familiar to the public, also in Central Germany.”

Chordae Freybergensis
Ensemble Freiberger Dom-Music
Albrecht Koch, Organ and conductor

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