The Muses’ Fellows & Monika Mandelartz – So frewe dich! – Musik aus der Selle-Handschrift der Kirchenbibliothek Salzwedel (2021)
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Around four hundred years ago, the region of Dithmarschen was a thriving centre of art and culture. This location was the starting point of the impressive career of Thomas Selle who was considered one of the major composers of his time alongside Schütz, Schein and Scheidt. Monika Mandelartz has devoted herself to an intensive study of the sources, examining, arranging, and recording works from the composer’s early original manuscripts. The selected compositions have been recorded for the first time and provide a genuine enrichment to the repertoire.
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The Muses’ Fellows & Monika Mandelartz – Selle: Kinder des Liechts: Concertuum binis vocibus (2022)
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Homage to the powerful was nothing unusual in the Baroque era; Thomas Selle, however, took it a little further: he paid tribute to several members of his prince’s family with musical “laudations”. Selle combined the compendium with “little sacred concerts”, for secular power and religion went hand in hand. These concerts are more concerned with the everyday worries of the rural population, who hoped for consolation in religion. Thomas Sella’s work thus occupies a special position. The story is told on different levels, Neo-Latin poetry meets Bible verses, combined in a highly intellectual way with subtexts and set to moving music. It unites: longing for peace and the romance of chivalry, religiosity and absolutism, cries of triumph and contemplation, archaism and humanism, pathos and charity, luxury and humility. Thomas Selle covers the entire spectrum of human nature in all its contradictions. Thus, this work remains highly topical even in our time.
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