From today's fresh releases:
Cappella Amsterdam - In Umbra Mortis
Qobuz 24/96
While cooking, we listened to 'In The Shadow Of Death'.
It sounded much less macabre than one might think from the title of the album.
I liked the combination of these 2 composers.
Had never heard works from Giaches de Wert, even though he's also Flemish.
Cappella Amsterdam and its artistic leader Daniel Reuss make their Pentatone debut with "In umbra mortis". The album brings together Wolfgang Rihm’s contemporary Sieben Passions-Stücke and Passion-related Motets by the Flemish 16th-century polyphonist Giaches de Wert, revealing unexpected kinship between two composers four centuries apart. By entwining the old and new, the listener is invited on a chromatic journey of astonishing beauty.
Since its foundation in 1970, Cappella Amsterdam has shown an exceptional mastery of contemporary and early vocal music, with acclaimed excurses to Romantic repertoire as well. Daniel Reuss has been Artistic Leader of Cappella Amsterdam for over three decades now, and has worked with several renowned choirs and ensembles. © Pentatone
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