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Zielenski - Offertoria et Communiones totius anni | CD Accord ACD272

Zielenski - Offertoria et Communiones totius anni

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Label: CD Accord

Cat No: ACD272

Barcode: 5902176502720

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 4th September 2020

Contents

Works

Zielenski, Mikolaj

Offertoria Totius Anni 1611
» Ascendit Deus
» Benedictus sit Deus Pater
» Deus firmavit orben terrae
» Ecce Virgo concipiet
» Fantasia a 3
» In monte Oliveti
» Magnificat
» Mitte manum tuam
» Responsum accepit Simeon
» Salva festa dies
» Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos
» Video caelos apertos
» Viderunt omnes fines terrae
» Vidimus stellam eius
» Vox in Rama

Artists

Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble

Conductor

Andrzej Kosendiak

Works

Zielenski, Mikolaj

Offertoria Totius Anni 1611
» Ascendit Deus
» Benedictus sit Deus Pater
» Deus firmavit orben terrae
» Ecce Virgo concipiet
» Fantasia a 3
» In monte Oliveti
» Magnificat
» Mitte manum tuam
» Responsum accepit Simeon
» Salva festa dies
» Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos
» Video caelos apertos
» Viderunt omnes fines terrae
» Vidimus stellam eius
» Vox in Rama

Artists

Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble

Conductor

Andrzej Kosendiak

About

‘We present to you another CD with the music of the First Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, featuring the works of Mikolaj Zielenski, his Offertoria and Communiones published in Venice in 1611.

‘I had to make a choice among Zielenski’s 113 surviving works, so I adopted a narratve based on the history of salvaton, or more precisely – the fulflment of the Scripture in the coming of Jesus Christ – the Messiah. The texts of the featured compositons refer both to the Old Testament events, the Gospel and to the descriptions contained in the Acts, from the Annunciaton and Visitaton of St Elizabeth, Natvity, Slaughter of the Innocents, Presentaton of the Lord, to Golgotha, Resurrecton, the Doubt of St Thomas, Ascension, Martyrdom of St Stephen and Glory to God.

‘At the same tme, I tried to show the diversity of line-ups and styles of Zielenski’s works from the 12-part
Magnifcat and the double-choir (eight-part and six-part) works to works for solo voice, while also diferentatng the instrumental line-ups, and especially the basso contnuo, which is performed by two theorboes, organ, harpsichord, harp, viola da gamba, violone and dulcian in various configuratons. In the vocal parts, the highest are performed by female sopranos, probably contrary to the practce of the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. We denied the doubtful St Thomas his voice in Mite manum tuam by performing this duo only on instruments, believing without words in the Resurrecton.

‘The featured works by Zielenski are masterpieces of musical art of the early 17th century, withstanding comparisons with compositons of the greatest masters of the era.’

– Andrzej Kosendiak

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