Soloists; Goldberg Baroque Ensemble; Andrzej Szadejko
Description
Continuing MDG's pioneering 'Musica Baltica' series, this new SACD recording presents works by Johann Valentin Meder, who was Kapellmeister at St. Mary's church, Gdansk, until 1698, including motets with up to three choirs.
It must have been spectacular when the Council was newly
elected in Gdansk - music was played on all organs in St.
Mary's Church, and the responsible Kapellmeister had to
deliver festive multi-choral works for the occasion.
Andrzej Szadejko and his Goldberg Baroque Ensemble
convey a fascinating impression of this baroque practice
in a splendid premiere recording of Meder's Sacred Music.
Elsewhere, multi-choir singing had long since gone out of
fashion, but in Meder's music, this opulent and therefore
harmonically mostly simple movement style of earlier
times is combined with the highly topical concertante
style of the Italian Baroque. Meder was always at the forefront of musical styles; one of the first operas in German language was written by him.
This lavish production highlights the large, recently reconstructed late baroque Merten-Friese organ on the rood screen of Gdansk's Trinity Church which is also used for the three-choir motets.
Together with kettledrums, trumpets and trombones, it completes the tonal triangle with the top-class vocal choirs on the right and left, using the full-sounding pedal work - an exciting sound celebration, which can of course be experienced most impressively in three-dimensional reproduction via MDG's 2+2+2 SACD superb recording technique.
Tracklisting
Tibor Gyenge, Michael Schoch
Ben van Oosten
Gudrun Sidonie Otto, Elvira Bill, Georg Poplutz, Thilo Dahlmann Goldberg Baroque & Vocal Ensemble,
Triin Ruubel, Xandi van Dijk, Theodor Sink, Kart Ruubel
Michael Schoch
Leipziger Streichquartett, Christian Zacharias
Regensburg Philharmonic, Stephan Veselka
Sestetto Classico
St Martin's Voices; Andrew Earis (director)
Le Concert Spirituel; Herve Niquet
Alain Altinoglu; Thierry Escaich; Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris; NFM Choir; Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Vox Clamantis; Ene Salumae; Jaan-Eik Tulve
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Academy of Ancient Music; Matthew Martin
Mari Eriksmoen; Kristina Hammarstrom; Mark Milhofer; Christian Senn; Zurcher Sing-Akademie; Kammero
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas; Consort Musica Vera; Choeur de l'Opera Royal; Choeur de la Maitrise du CRR d
Carlotta Colombo; Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri; Giulio Prandi
