Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15 & Other Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15 & Other Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:37 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout his life, Felix Mendelssohn harboured a strong love-hate relationship with the Berlin Sing-Akademie, where, as a singer and student of the director Carl Friedrich Zelter, he got to know important works of Italian vocal polyphony of the 16th and 17th centuries.

“My commitment to the present new recording is not only important because of advanced ensemble techniques, but also because I believe that with a cast of soloists, as in the sixteen-part Hora est, transparency of the polyphonic movement can be achieved that is not so readily feasible with larger forces. A prerequisite here is the existence of ensemble capabilities among vocal soloists, as we also need it for earlier music. In any case, the vocal works which are also particularly interesting to me among those Mendelssohn composed for the Sing-Akademie are those of stylistically ambiguous definition, in which the composer, inspired by the example of the old masters, looks for – and finds – his own path. Our conception of being able to cast soloists from a chorus, as in the Te Deum, is also influenced by this model“.
(Frieder Bernius)

Tracklist:
01. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: I. Te Deum Laudamus (02:50)
02. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: II. Te Aeternum Patrem (02:19)
03. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: III. Tibi Omnes Angeli (02:05)
04. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: IV. Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim (03:10)
05. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: V. Te Gloriosus Apostolorum (03:32)
06. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: VI. Patrem Immensae Majestatis (02:09)
07. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: VII. Tu Rex Gloriae (03:00)
08. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: VIII. Te Ergo Quaesumus (02:41)
09. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: IX. Salvum Fac (02:40)
10. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: X. Per Singulos Dies (02:00)
11. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: XI. Dignare Domine (03:39)
12. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15: XII. Fiat Misericordia Tua (03:45)
13. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Hora Est, MWV B 18: I. — (02:22)
14. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Hora Est, MWV B 18: II. Vivace (05:17)
15. Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Kirchenmusik, Op. 23: No. 2, Ave Maria, MWV B 19 (Arr. for Choir & Organ) (06:02)

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