Biber: Missa Salisburgensis and Sacred works by Monteverdi (2016) [Blu-ray]

Polychoral music is so synonymous with 16th century Venice that it is easy to forget that the longest flourishing of this style- possibly even its invention- took place in Germany. Whether or not it was in Munich with the works of Orlande de Lassus that the Gabrielis first encountered its effects, polychoral music came to define German textures and techniques for over a century. Both apprentices and rivals to their Italian counterparts, composers such as Hieronymus Praetorius, Schutz, Hassler and Scheidt, as well as Austria’s Biber, fostered a tradition whose influence would extend all the way to the motets of Bach. This performance places a giant of Baroque choral music, Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis, alongside the Venetian choral works of Monteverdi from which it takes its inspiration. The combination is a heady one, a triumphal musical celebration uniquely appropriate to mark the 200th anniversary year of Salzburg’s affiliation with Austria.

Треклист:
Biber: Missa Salisburgensis
Monteverdi: Beatus vir (from Selva Morale e Spirituali)
Monteverdi: Dixit Dominus II
Monteverdi: Gloria in excelsis (from Selva Morale e Spirituali)
Monteverdi: Laudate pueri Primo
Monteverdi: Sonata sopra 'Sancta Maria ora pro nobis', SV206:11 (from Vespro della beata Vergine)