Capella de la Torre - Capriccio Pastorale (Italian Christmas Music) (2023) [Official Digital Download]

On its new album, Katharina Bäuml's highly acclaimed ensemble Capella de la Torre, which has just been awarded the OPUS Klassik, invites you to a special musical Christmas in Italy. As was the tradition in Renaissance Italy, a colorful mixture of different styles and moods can be heard. Wonderful secular and sacred, joyful and festive as well as instrumental and vocal music alternate.

"With this deliberate contrast, we want to immerse ourselves in the soundscape in Italy around 1500 and at the same time pay homage to the present," says Katharina Bäuml, "It is music that touches us deeply across the centuries to this day. On "Capriccio Pastorale" you can hear Italian Christmas folk songs, such as the famous Neapolitan carol "Tu scendi dalle stelle," "Venite adoriamo" from Istria or even the popular chorale "Angelus ad virginem." There are even world premiere recordings on the album of Christmas hymns (lauden), such as the lively "Hor non nascescias" or the dance-like "Danza dei pastori". The moving Christmas mass "Missa de Sancta Maria" by Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517), a Nuremberg composer who lived mostly in Italy, is also a world premiere recording. Real discoveries are also the solemn works of his contemporaries, such as the Veronese composer Giovanni Animuccia (ca. 1514-1571), the Milanese Giovanni Paolo Cima (1583-1643) or the papal singer and composer Francesco Soto de Langa (1534-1619). The colorfully orchestrated Capella de la Torre is supported by excellent soloists Margaret Hunter (soprano), Erika Tandiono (soprano) and Florian Cramer (tenor). A touching, festive Christmas album for all fans of Italian music!

TRACKLIST

1. Capella de la Torre - Hoggi la vita nasce
2. Capella de la Torre - Tutti debiam cantare
3. Capella de la Torre - Missa de Sancta Maria a nativitate usque ad purificationem: Introitus
4. Capella de la Torre - O Maria diana stella
5. Capella de la Torre - Levate su pastori
6. Capella de la Torre - Giga Angelella
7. Capella de la Torre - Missa de Sancta Maria a nativitate usque ad purificationem: Versus - Alleluia
8. Capella de la Torre - Nell' apparir del sempiterno sole
9. Capella de la Torre - Angelus ad virginem
10. Capella de la Torre - Missa de Sancta Maria a nativitate usque ad purificationem: Sequentia
11. Capella de la Torre - Ditene'o pastori
12. Capella de la Torre - Capriccio Pastorale, F 2.35
13. Capella de la Torre - Hodie Christus natus est
14. Capella de la Torre - Angelica biltà
15. Capella de la Torre - Gloria, RISM I-TRmn 87.31
16. Capella de la Torre - Tu scendi dalle stelle
17. Capella de la Torre - E nato il grand Iddeo
18. Capella de la Torre - Danza dei pastori
19. Capella de la Torre - Venite adoriamo
20. Capella de la Torre - Hor non nascescias
21. Capella de la Torre - Quando nascette ninno



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