Gabrieli: Motets & Organ Works Classical Renaissance CPO

Gabrieli: Motets & Organ Works

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CX 5291

Gabrieli: Motets & Organ Works

Label Catalogue Number:
555291-2

Running Time: 01:08:56

Release Date: October 2021
Originally recorded in October 2021

Genre:
Classical
Renaissance

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“… As one may expect from these performers, we get pretty much ideal interpretations. Manfred Cordes has a gift to bring together the singers who are fully at home in this repertoire, and whose voices blend perfectly. The rhythmic precision is impressive, and needed in those episodes where a lively rhythm is used to express the text. The precise intonation is another asset of Weser-Renaissance. Edoardo Bellotti is playing the copy, and partly reconstruction of an Italian organ of the 17th century.”

Johan van Veen – MusicWeb-International.com – 4 April 2022

“… Performing on a Pradella replica of a 17th-century northern Italian instrument, whose characterful tone matches Cordes’s early brass and widn for gutsy breadth, these works sing with an explicit virtuosity absent in the more sober vocal music…”

Alexandra Coghlan – Gramophone magazine – December 2021

**** Excellent Album

Jérémie Bigorie – Classica (France) – December 2021-January 2022

Interpretation **** (Very Good) Sound Quality **** (Very Good) Repertoire ***** (Outstanding) Booklet **** (Very Good)

“… the sung and played motets and organ works show Gabrieli as a stupendous master of his time, as a sovereign at great heights… This line-up enables a number of variations to make music that is characterized by rich colors and characteristic drawings … the tempos flow to the right degree, never exaggeratedly urgent. The interaction of all forces develops dynamic effects of clearly structured power and strength, with an always differentiated basis and lucid core. In terms of intonation, not a single moment of cloudiness can be recorded, on the contrary, this dimension can be described as absolutely exhilarating, freely swinging, instrumental and vocal equally ideal. The sound is clear and well-proportioned, in a convincing balance, the vocal parts come into their own even in large ensembles… Manfred Cordes and Weser-Renaissance Bremen set a real exclamation mark with this record…”

Dr. Matthias Lange – Klassik.com – 6 October 2021

“…. Despite some caveats, there is some very fine singing heard here and some wonderfully warm and nimble instrumental work.”

Gary Higginson – MusicWeb-International.com – 14 October 2021

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