Stephan MacLeod – 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stephan MacLeod – 17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław (2018)
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Here is a superb inter-European artistic cooperation, with the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra from Poland, the Gli angeli ensemble from Switzerland and the Concerto Palatino based in Italy. It’s only “reasonable” for this album to also features composers from many horizons of 17th-century Europe, except all the rare (and unique in some cases) manuscripts and prints are kept at the Wrocław University Library – hence the album’s title, of course. Indeed, this library was, as early as the baroque era, an extraordinary collection centre for ultra rare publications, and despite the ravages and lootings brought by World War II, most of the collection could be retrieved. It clearly seems that despite never leaving their home country or even their region, some composers were well-known far beyond borders, and that their works found interpreters and amateurs in lands they only vaguely knew by name. This recording offers a generous range of vocal, instrumental and mixed personnel, for the most part Italian and German musicians, as well as a handful of Polish composers – who clearly studied in Italy! An opulent and extraordinarily varied repertoire, with a thousand sounds passionately performed by the three ensembles.

Tracklist:
1-01. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Sacrae cantiones: Dum esset rex (06:24)
1-02. Stephan Macleod & Concerto Palatino – Canzoni e concerti: Concerto secondo (02:04)
1-03. Stephan Macleod & Marcin Szelest – Communio Introibo ad altare Dei: Dominica in Sexagesima (03:48)
1-04. Stephan Macleod, Bruce Dickey & Marcin Szelest – Sonate symphonie canzoni, Op. 8: Sonata per l’Organo. Violino o cornetto (04:27)
1-05. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Dialogo a due voci e 6 stromenti, Domine puer meus jacet in domo (04:59)
1-06. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Exultabit cor meum (03:24)
1-07. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Sonata a 5 Voci (04:23)
1-08. Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt – Jubileum Nuptiale (06:58)
1-09. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Der Herr gebe euch vom Tau des Himmels (08:47)
1-10. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Donna voi vi credete ze zbioru Madrigali a cinque: O Tod, du darfst nicht glauben (04:30)
1-11. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Zbigniew Pilch & Jaroslaw Thiel – Sonate a due e tre, Op. 2: Sonata VII La Donata a due, violino e violone o fagotto (03:27)
1-12. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – O quanta in coelis laetitia (08:13)
1-13. Stephan Macleod, Gli Angeli Genève & Marcin Szelest – O Salutaris ze zbioru Pegaso: O Jesu mi dulcissime (04:03)
1-14. Zbigniew Pilch, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Stephan Macleod, Adam Pastuszka & Adrian Rovatkay – Plectrum musicum Op. 4: Sonata XIV. 2 Violin. e Fagotto (04:37)
1-15. Stephan Macleod, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève & Concerto Palatino – Heilig ist der Herre Zebaoth (07:41)

Personnel:
PERFORMERS
Stephan MacLeod – Conductor

GLI ANGELI GENÈVE
Aleksandra Lewandowska, Grace Davidson – Sopranos
Alex Potter – Alto
Jan Kobow, Stephan Gähler – Tenors
Stephan MacLeod – Bass
Marzena Michałowska, Aleksandra Turalska – Sopranos
Piotr Olech – Alto
Maciej Gocman, Václav Čížek – Tenors
Jaromír Nosek – Bass

CONCERTO PALATINO
Bruce Dickey, Gawain Glenton – Cornets
Simen Van Mechelen, Claire MacIntyre, Charles Toet, Joost Swinkels – Trombones

WROCŁAW BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Zbigniew Pilch (Leader), Adam Pastuszka – Violins
Dominika Małecka – Viola
Jarosław Thiel (Artistic Director) – Cello
Ondřej Štajnochr – Violone
Adrian Rovatkay – Dulcian
Marcin Szelest (Musicologist, Artistic Consultant) – Organ

Composers:
Bollius, Daniel (1590-1638)
Buchner, Philipp Friedrich (1614-69)
Bütner, Crato (1616-79)
Jarzebski, Adam (c.1590-c.1648)
Legrenzi, Giovanni (1626-90)
Lilius, Franciszek (c.1600-1657)
Marini, Biagio (c.1597-1665)
Merula, Tarquinio (c.1594-1665)
Pacelli, Asprilio (1570-1623)
Scacchi, Marco (1602-85)
Valentini, Giovanni (c.1582-1649)
Zeutschner, Tobias (1621-75)
Zielenski, Mikolaj (1550-1615)

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