Label: RAUM KLANG SACD 2404
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MUSIC INSTRUMENTS FROM 1594 IN FREIBERG CATHEDRAL
Late-Renaissance sacred music from Saxony
ANTONIO SCANDELLO (1517 – 1580): Missa sex vocum super Epitaphium illustrissimi; Principis ac Domini Mauritii Ducis et Electoris Saoniae; Motets of Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi (ca. 1544 – 1587); Orlando di Lasso (1532 – 1594); Hans Leo Hassler (1564 – 1612); Leonard Lechner (ca. 1553 – 1606)
Late-Renaissance secular music from Saxony
ANTONIO SCANDELLO: Imperium Augusti sit foelixLiedsätze und Bergreihen von Melchior Franck (1573–1639), Orlando di Lasso (?) und Antonio Scandello; Tänze u.a. aus den Tabulaturen von E. N. Ammerbach (Leipzig 1571) und D. Sammenhammer (Chemnitz 1590)

Christine Maria Rembeck & Ralf Popken, soprano
David Erler, alto; Julian Podger & Michael Schaffrath, tenor; Reinhard Decker, bass
Ensemble “Musica Freybergensis”/Roland Wilson
Thirty largely original instruments in the hands of music-making angels in Freiberg Cathedral are unique evidence of Saxon musical-instrument-making in the sixteenth century. Copies were made of the angels’instruments – cornetts, trombones, shawms, triangle, tambourine, harps, citterns, violins and lutes – during the course of a research project. Their sound can be rediscovered on these two CDs (SACDs) of late-Renaissance instrumental and vocal works from Saxony. Musica Freybergensis is a hand-picked group of musicians chosen by Music Instrument Museum of Leipzig University and Raumklang for the purpose of practical research into the sound of the Freiberg instruments. Before making this recording a number of concerts were presented over the period of a year, including one in Freiberg Cathedral, giving the musicians time to break in the instruments, to become accustomed to them, and to discover their possibilities. (2 CDs for the price of 1)