Vox Dilecti Mei: Renaissance Songs of Love

The scoring were varied is not overdone…This is well worth hearing — Early Music Review, December 2013

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: PC10289
Label: Pan Classics

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Josquin: Ave Maria

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Silva, A: Tota pulchra es Maria

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Aquila: Recercare

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Brumel, A: Sicut lilium

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Brumel, A: Mater Patris

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

anon.: Alba columba

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Senfl: Tota pulchra es

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

J'ay pris amours

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Lassus: Madonna mia pieta

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Ruffo, V: Giovene donna

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Neusidler, H: Ein seer guter organistischer Preambl

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Palestrina: Vox dilecti mei

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Palestrina: Dilectus meus descendit

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Palestrina: Pulchra es amica mea

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

Meier, H: wingert in der frühe

The Modena Consort
Ralph Stelzenmuller

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The Song of Songs is one of the most beautiful texts of the Old Testament and has inspired musical settings by composers of all epochs. It is a wonderful oriental poem with unequivocally erotic passages and has been interpreted differently by various religions and traditions: in the Jewish tradition as God's love for Israel, amongst Christians as Christ's love for his church and, in medieval Books of Hours and other prayer books, as a song of praise to the Virgin Mary.

On the present recording, the Modena Consort combines Renaissance settings of the Song of Songs (by Josquin, Isaac, Senfl, Palestrina, Lasso and others) with the contemporary setting "wingert in der frühe" ("vineyard in the morning") by the Swiss composer Hans-Jürg Meier (*1964). Meier's work is for soprano, four Renaissance transverse flutes and lute. Aside from the Song of Songs, his text also refers to the Church of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, the proportions of which it musically traces.

Songs of the Renaissance are alternated seamlessly with new songs: the two sopranos Ulrike Hofbauer and Keren Motseri interpret this programme with clarity and lightness; both have a light timbre that blends ideally with the sound of the Renaissance flutes.

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Early Music Review December 2013

The scoring were varied is not overdone…This is well worth hearing

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