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Leonhard Lechner - Festive Mass & Motets | Christophorus CHR77367

Leonhard Lechner - Festive Mass & Motets

Label: Christophorus

Cat No: CHR77367

Barcode: 4010072773678

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 11th March 2013

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Contents

Artists

Ensemble Officium

Conductor

Wilfried Rombach

Works

Gabrieli, Andrea

Praeludium secundus tonus

Lasso, Orlando di

Domine, Dominus noster

Lechner, Leonhard

Kronborg motets (3)
Laudate dominum
Missa super Domine, Dominus noster
Motectae sacrae
» In convertendo
» Memor esto verbi tui
» O fons vitae – Sitio Domine
» Paratum cor meum
Quid chaos

Artists

Ensemble Officium

Conductor

Wilfried Rombach

About

Leonhard Lechner has until now been rather ignored on recorded releases - he is only known as the composer of secular German lied movements or his rather academic "German Proverbs of Life and Death". His origins are largely unknown, but he was probably a pupil of Orlando di Lasso and he was primarily active in Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

The present CD intends to present Lechner in a new light, with the Ensemble Officium introducing, mostly as premiere recordings, festive music for ceremonial occasions scored for large ensembles. The central work is the monumental 24-part festive motet "Quid chaos", composed for the Nuremberg Patrician wedding in 1582 and the corresponding festive mass "Dominus noster".

The 15-part festive motet for three choirs, "Laudate dominum", was also composed for a wedding, this time in Dresden in 1604.

The programme is supplemented by the so-called Kronborg motets, which are quite unique: they were written for the consecration of an ornate bronze fountain ordered from a Nuremberg brass foundry by the Danish king for Kronborg Castle. The delivery of the fountain was delayed for years and became an "affair of state", whereupon the Nuremberg City Council commissioned a major motet of praise from Lechner in order to appease the king. The fountain was lost just a hundred years later when the Swedes took it as booty – today, only the music written for its consecration bears witness to its splendour.

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