Zelenka - Missa Dei Patris, Psalms, Capriccios
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94691
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 30th September 2013
Contents
Works
Capriccio no.2 in G Major, ZWV183Capriccio no.4 in A Major, ZWV185
Capriccio no.5 in G Major, ZWV190
Confitebor tibi Domine in C minor, ZWV71
Laudate pueri Dominum in D major
Missa Dei Patris, ZWV19
Artists
Peter Schreier (tenor)Olaf Bar (baritone)
Rene Jacobs (alto)
Ludwig Guttler (corno da caccia, trumpet)
Thuringischer Akademischer Singkreis
Virtuosi Saxoniae
Conductor
Ludwig GuttlerWorks
Capriccio no.2 in G Major, ZWV183Capriccio no.4 in A Major, ZWV185
Capriccio no.5 in G Major, ZWV190
Confitebor tibi Domine in C minor, ZWV71
Laudate pueri Dominum in D major
Missa Dei Patris, ZWV19
Artists
Peter Schreier (tenor)Olaf Bar (baritone)
Rene Jacobs (alto)
Ludwig Guttler (corno da caccia, trumpet)
Thuringischer Akademischer Singkreis
Virtuosi Saxoniae
Conductor
Ludwig GuttlerAbout
“Zelenka was one of Bach’s and Telemann’s most musically colourful contemporaries.” - Gramophone
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679‐1745) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Baroque music. Very little is known of his early years, where he studied and who taught him. Born in a village to the south of Prague, he later travelled to Dresden where he joined the court of the Elector of Saxony, Friedrich August I. His position at the court was a lowly one, but he nonetheless composed many works there and his output of church music was particularly prolific.
Zelenka was an astonishingly original and forward‐looking composer, and his late Masses such as the Missa Dei Patris are a real departure from what we might see as ‘typical’ Baroque choral music, showing the influence of Italian opera and elements of the emerging style galant.
Written for small forces but nevertheless conceived on a large scale, the Missa Dei Patris is full of beautiful melodies and profoundly expressive choral writing, and characterised by a unique blend of melancholy and ecstatic fervour.
The second disc in this set includes three of Zelenka’s virtuosic and formally innovative Capriccios, and two of the Psalm settings that he composed for Vesper services at the Dresden court.
The works are heard here in definitive performances featuring renowned singers such as René Jacobs, Peter Schreier and Olaf Bär and the Virtuosi Saxoniae – an ensemble comprising some of the finest musicians from the Dresden Staatskapelle – under the baton of their founder, Ludwig Güttler.
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