Bavarian Radio Chorus & Michael Hofstetter-2025 - Veni creator spiritus - Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks (2025) [24/48]

The Munich specialist for early music and artistic director of the Inter-national Gluck Festival in Nuremberg, Michael Hofstetter, is making his debut as guest conductor of the Bavarian Radio Chorus. With works by Orlando di Lasso, Michael Praetorius, Giovanni Gabrieli and the contemporary composer Richard van Schoor, he makes a wide range from the Renaissance to the modern era. “Holy Spirit, come down” – this is how the text of the Christian Whitsun hymn begins, the words of which refer to traditions of cultural and linguistic diversity. The polychoral works in the production are also polyphonic. The first part features works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including the composition “Veni creator spiritus” by Orlando di Lasso from 1568, which gives the production its name. The underlying text is, however, more than 1000 years old; The hymn was probably written on the occasion of the Council of Aachen in 809 by the polymath Benedictine Rabanus Maurus, who was a teacher at the monastery school in Fulda at the time. It is one of the few prayers in the liturgy of the Western Church that is addressed directly to the Holy Spirit.

TRACKLIST

01. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Michael Hofstetter - Lasso: Veni creator spiritus: 1. Prima pars
02. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Michael Hofstetter - Lasso: Veni creator spiritus: 2. Secunda pars
03. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Michael Hofstetter - Lasso: Veni creator spiritus: 3. Tertia pars
04. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Michael Hofstetter - Praetorius: Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist
05. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Michael Hofstetter - Gabrieli: Hodie completi sunt
06. Bavarian Radio Chorus & Michael Hofstetter - Schoor: The World is Wept



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