Awake, O North Wind by Tirami Su

Tirami Su

Awake, O North Wind

Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917210323
Catnr: CC 72103
Release date: 01 January 2002

1 CD

Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917210323

Catalogue number
CC 72103

Release date
01 January 2002

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About the album

17e-eeuwse Duitse muziek aangrijpend vertolkt
Dit album presenteert Duitse muziek van Schütz tot Buxtehude. Deze twee componisten zijn dan ook direct de bekendste namen tussen alle andere componisten die op dit album aan bod komen. Ook worden werken van minder bekende componisten uitgevoerd.

Tirami Su is een kleine strijkersgroep met violen en diverse viola da gamba's, afwisselend ondersteund door klavecimbel, orgel of basluit. Hun belangrijkste repertoire is dat van de 17e-eeuwse Italiaanse, Duitse en Engelse muziek. De groep koos als motto voor dit album een vers uit het Hooglied van Salomo: 'Ontwaak, noordenwind! En kom, Gij zuidenwind! Doorwaai mijn hof, dat zijn specerijen uitvloeien.' Volgens Erin Headley, gambiste van de groep, kan dit vers worden opgevat als een beeld van het muzikale landschap van het 17e-eeuwse Duitsland: een vruchtbaar hof, toegankelijk voor muzikale ideeën uit Engeland, Nederland en Italië. Op dit album klinken ook de Canadese Laurie Reviol − sopraan − en Nederlander Harry van der Kamp − bas − met aangrijpende vertolkingen. Het intense spel van de strijkers zorgt voor een perfecte omlijsting van de vocale partijen.

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Tirami Su

Erin Headley

Composer(s)

Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz was born exactly 100 years before Johann Sebastian Bach, and just like Bach he had a broad education and composed in various styles and genres. Unlike Bach, Schütz wasn't born to a musical family, and his parents pushed him to study for a "proper profession". However, when he got the chance to study under Giovanni Gabrieli he didn't hesitate for a bit. After a couple of detours, he ended up in Dresden, where he would spent the rest of his life. Schütz reached died at 87 years old, a remarkable age for his time. Sadly, he survived both his wife and his two daughters. The (almost always vocal) music of Schütz is typical for its time: the text and its meaning are centralised within the music. In his long life, Schütz composer about 500 works. His youthful madrigals, Symphoniae Sacrae, Musikalische Exequien, Weihnachtshistorie and his late passions are particularly noteworthy. Finally, his Kleine geistliche Konzerte contained many small gems, including his final work: the impressive composition on his favourite psalm, no. 119.

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Dieterich Buxtehude

Among the general public, Dieterich Buxtehude is mostly known due to the admiration Johann Sebastian Bach had for his organ and composing skills, for which Bach traveled to the North German city of Lübeck to stay with him for four months, no less. This says quite something about the quality of Buxtehude's performance, but even more so about the influence it had on Bach and all composers after him. Yet, nowadays Buxtehude's music does not need Bach to survive, as a matter of fact it is extraordinarily beautiful just by itself! Buxtehude was originally Danish, but he spent most of him life in Lübeck. His so-called 'Abendmusik', which was a series of evening concerts outside of the liturgy, grew famous. In the works he wrote for these occasions, his enormous fantasy and creative freedom truly shows. As an organ player, Buxtehude was widely famous. If you would listen to his Organ Preludes, you would quickly know why. Buxtehude manages to combine an unprecedented virtuosity with a large variety of styles and techniques. No wonder Bach traveled all that way to see him!

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