Bodenschatze: Motets from the Florilegium Portense | Coviello Classics COV92112

Bodenschatze: Motets from the Florilegium Portense

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Label: Coviello Classics

Cat No: COV92112

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 14th January 2022

Contents

About

The great "composer of the millennium" Johann Sebastian Bach stands like a solitary rock in the landscape of music history; there is less talk about where he comes from and what influenced him stylistically.

Chorwerk Ruhr embarked on a search for traces with highly interesting results: the young Johann Sebastian also listened to and studied works that were already around 100 years old. In any case, during his later time as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, he saw to it that the collection of motets Florilegium selectissimarum Cantionum was purchased anew - it was used so frequently in lessons under his aegis that the sheet music was completely worn out!

The collection of the early Baroque master and school cantor Erhard Bodenschatz, first published in 1603, illustrates in songs mostly by German or Italian masters the then-new compositional technique of the Baroque in a clearly comprehensible manner.

Reviews

sung with affecting sincerity by ChorWerk Ruhr. […] Florian Helegath’s diligently sculpted performance demonstrates why Bach still used Florilegium Portense at the Thomaskirche more than a century after its publication.
Gramophone
Chorwerk Ruhr, a 28-voice chamber choir of soft and subtle tones, can blossom into more emphatic gestures as required in interpretations moulded tastefully by Florian Helgath. Some works receive work premiere recordings and vocal performances are juxtaposed with purely instrumental treatments from the fabulous shawm, cornet sackbut, bass dulcian, violone, organ and theorbo of Capella de la Torre.
Choir and Organ

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