Echo & Risposta (Virtuoso Instrumental Music from the Galleries of the Abbey Church of Muri) Les Cornets Noirs

• Dietrich Becker (1623 - 1679):
• 1 Musicalische Frühlings-Früchte ... Hamburg 1668: Canzon a 4.5. 2. Violino: 2. Cornetto e Basso 05:18
• Benedetto Re (1606 - 1626):
• 2 Caterina Assandra: Motetti a due & tre voci ... Aggiontovi una canzon francesa a 4. ...Del Rever. Don Benedetto Re. Mailand 1609: Canzone a 4. Accomodata a suonare a duoi Chori 04:59
• Niccolò Corradini (1585 - 1646):
• 3 Primo libro de canzoni francese a 4. & alcune sonate. Venedig 1624: Suonata La Golferamma. A 2 cornetti in Risposta 04:08
• Salomone Rossi (1570 - 1630):
• 4 Il quarto libro de varie sonate ... Venedig 1622: Sonata a quattro Violini e doi Chitarroni 03:56
• Cesario Gussago (1579 - 1612):
• 5 Sonate a quattro, sei et otto … Venedig 1608: Sonata La Leona a 8 03:08
• Dario Castello (1590 - 1658):
• 6 Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo ... Venedig 1629: Sonata decima a 3. Due Soprani e Fagotto. Ouero Viola. 04:55
• Giovanni Battista Riccio (1570 - 1621):
• 7 Il secondo libro delle divine lodi ... Venedig 1614: Canzon a 2 in Echo 03:10
• Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663):
• 8 Sonate, symphonie, canzoni ... Per ogni sorte d'instrumenti ... Venedig 1626: Sonata nona. Per doi Fagotti o Tromboni Grossi 03:03
• 9 Sonate, symphonie, canzoni ... Per ogni sorte d'instrumenti ... Venedig 1626: Canzon prima. Per quattro Violini o Cornetti 02:57
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (1560 - 1627):
• 10 Sinfonie musicali a otto voci ... Commode per concertare con ogni sorte di stromenti ... Venedig 1610: Sinfonia La Bergamasca a 8 04:20
• 11 Cento concerti ecclesiastici …Venedig 1602: Canzon francese in Risposta 03:36
• 12 Sinfonie musicali a otto voci ... Commode per concertare con ogni sorte di stromenti ... Venedig 1610: Sinfonia La Mantovana a 8 02:34
• Giovanni Picchi (1571 - 1643):
• 13 Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti ... Venedig 1625: Canzon XII 02:55
• 14 Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti ... Venedig 1625: Sonata XVI 03:19
• Alessandro Stradella (1639 - 1682):
• 15 Torino, Biblioteca nazionale universitaria, MS. Foà 11, f. 84-92: Sonata a 4. Due Violini, e due cornetti divisi in due Chori 02:18
• 16 Pars secunda Tabulaturae ... Hamburg 1624: Echo ad manuale duplex forte & Lene 08:39
• 17 Ludi musici ... Hamburg 1621: Canzon Cornetto a 4 03:24
• Johann Sommer (1570 - 1627):
• 18 Fröhliche Sommerzeit ... Bremen vor 1624: Sonata a 4 04:20
• Johann Staden (1581 - 1634):
• 19 Operum musicorum posthumorum pars prima ... Nürnberg 1643: Sonata prima. 2. Cant: & 1. Bass. 02:10
• Total Runtime 01:13:09

Info for Echo & Risposta (Virtuoso Instrumental Music from the Galleries of the Abbey Church of Muri)

What Dialogi be is known to everyone: for Dialogus means a conversation, as when one answers the other’s questions, alternating one after the other like in Choros. Thus can also the Echo be here referred to. Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum III, 1619

The rhetorical fundamental gestures which characterise the instrumental compositions of the 16th and 17th centuries are shown most impressively in the echo and response dialogues of spatially separated choirs. At St. Mark’s in Venice, where several musicians’ galleries were available, this multi-choir format reached a highpoint with Giovanni Gabrieli towards the end of the sixteenth century and gained stylistic influence well beyond Italy. The majority of works included in this recording date from the 20s and 30s of the seicento, when composers enjoyed their newfound means of expression and freedom all the more. This music is characterized by exuberant virtuosity and joy of playing, as well as a programmatic accentuation of the then modern style.

The four galleries of the Abbey Church of Muri offer optimal conditions for multi-choral music. So as to include the historical organs of the church, two cornettos were produced whose pitch exactly matches that of the Bossard organs of the Abbey Church of Muri. The present recording is the first sound documentation of this essential musical practice of the Abbey Church of Muri.

The present recording is the first sound documentation of this essential musical practice of the Abbey Church of Muri. Les Cornets Noirs was founded by Gebhard David and Bork-Frithjof Smith in 1997. The group's main interest lies in the solo and ensemble literature for the instrument which gives the group its name: the cornetto (cornetto/ cornet). In the year 2000 Les Cornets Noirs were prize winners in the concours musica antique at the Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge. Since then, the ensemble has performed regularly in Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Luxemburg, France, Italy, and Portugal, both with their own programmes and together with vocal groups for the performance of large-scale Early Baroque works.

Les Cornets Noirs

Les Cornets Noirs was founded by Gebhard David and Bork-Frithjof Smith in 1997. The group’s main interest lies in the solo and ensemble literature for the instrument which gives the group its name: the cornetto (cornetto/ cornet). In the year 2000 Les Cornets Noirs were prize winners in the concours musica antique at the Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge. Since then, the ensemble has performed regularly in Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Luxemburg, France, Italy, and Portugal, both with their own programmes and together with vocal groups for the performance of large-scale Early Baroque works.

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