Baroque Bass Staffan Liljas

• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Ab aeterno ordinata sum, SV 262:
• 1 Monteverdi: Ab aeterno ordinata sum, SV 262 06:47
• Giovanni Pichi (1571 - 1643): Toccata in D Minor, FVB 95:
• 2 Pichi: Toccata in D Minor, FVB 95 04:45
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, SV 197a:
• 3 Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, SV 197a 02:37
• Francesca Caccini (1587 - 1640): Primo libro delle musiche:
• 4 Caccini: Primo libro delle musiche: No. 20, Laudate Dominum 04:18
• Domenico Gabrielli (1659 - 1690): Ricercari, canone e sonate per violoncello:
• 5 Gabrielli: Ricercari, canone e sonate per violoncello: No. 6, Ricercar in G Major 03:38
• Isabella Leonarda (1620 - 1704): Mottetti a voce sola, Op. 11:
• 6 Leonarda: Mottetti a voce sola, Op. 11: No. 12, Salve Regina 07:42
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643): Canzon quinta detta la Tromboncina, F 8.06a:
• 7 Frescobaldi: Canzon quinta detta la Tromboncina, F 8.06a 03:13
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695): Sing Unto God, Z. 52:
• 8 Purcell: Sing Unto God, Z. 52 05:19
• John Blow (1649 - 1708): Rise, Mighty Monarch:
• 9 Blow: Rise, Mighty Monarch 02:14
• O Lord Thou Art My God:
• 10 Blow: O Lord Thou Art My God 09:03
• William Turner (1775 - 1851): God Reigneth Over the Heathen:
• 11 Turner: God Reigneth Over the Heathen 02:14
• Henry Purcell: The Lord Is King, Z. 54:
• 12 Purcell: The Lord Is King, Z. 54 08:00
• Total Runtime 59:50

Info for Baroque Bass

At Footprint Records, we are proud to present our new production Baroque Bass, with the Swedish opera singer Staffan Liljas. This album contains music from the early baroque era for solo bass voice – a quite unique event. Liljas is accompanied by a small basso continuo ensemble consisting of three of Sweden’s most prominent musicians in this genre: Mime Brinkmann (cello), Jonas Nordberg (theorbo) and Peter Lönnerberg (organ).New impulses swept into music in the early 1600s, and they came primarily from Italy. The catalyst was a shift in instrumental configuration towards ‘basso continuo’ – the provision of a musical bass line with implied harmonies by a small, modular group of instrumentalists. Music was reclaimed from the floating polyphony that had prevailed for a century or more. Basso continuo literally freed it up by pinning it down. During the pandemic of 2020, Liljas began to con-sider an album exploring the nascent Italian tradition, its manifestation in sacred music and its subsequent blossoming in the English Chapel Royal. The result is this program of anthems and motets for bass voice. On this album, we hear music by some of the old mas-ters: Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Picchi, Francesca Caccini, Domenico Gabrielli, Isabella Leonarda, Girolamo Frescobaldi, William Turner, John Blow and Henry Purcell.

Staffan Liljas, bass
Peter Lönnerberg, organ
Jonas Nordberg, theorbo
Mime Brinkmann, cello

Staffan Liljas
bass, has been active as a soloist in concerts and operas in Sweden as well as abroad since he graduated from the University College of Opera in Stockholm in 2012. In the summer of 2019 he was seen as Polypheme in Handel’s Acis & Galatea at Confidencen. This overwhelmingly positively reviewed performance was broadcast in national Swedish television that same fall.

Peter Lönnerberg
organ, is a harpsichordist and organist in Rebaroque, the quartet Stockholm Barock and the baroque orchestra Tre Kronor. Among several CD-recordings can be mentioned a CD of early Italian baroque music for violin and harpsichord with Laura Vadjon, the concert master of the Croatian Baroque Orchestra (Aquarius Records) and ”Telemannia” with music by Telemann with Rebaroque (Proprius).

Jonas Nordberg
lute, is active as a soloist and chamber musician in over 25 countries around the world. He plays frequently with ensembles such as Concerto Köln, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concerto Copenhagen, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Swedish Radio Symphonic Orchestra, among others. His latest solo CD with music by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger was released in August 2019 on BIS Records.

Mime Brinkmann
cello, has won several prestigious international soloist competitions, among them Musica Antiqua Brugge. She frequently performs in concert houses and festivals in over 40 countries around the world as a soloist and in chamber ensembles. Her CD-produktioner are frequently reviewed by international magazines such as Gramophone, The Strad and Diapason.

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