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On their first album featuring madrigals and canzonettas by Andrea Gabrieli, the WESER RENAISSANCE ensemble led by Manfred Cordes was already in its element. On SWR2 Radio Michael Stegemann commented: “A most highly entertaining and successful album. Perfect balance in the mixture of singers and winds, audio transparency of the polyphonic structures, great textual intelligibility.” And on the ensemble’s second Gabrieli release, now with madrigals, psalms, and organ works by this master delighting so much in experimentation, his intention and wish to offer intelligent entertainment to his fellow human beings are clearly shown. By 1566 at the latest, Andrea Gabrieli was appointed to the coveted post of organist at St. Mark’s Cathedral, and already during his lifetime he was esteemed in particular because of his enormous versatility.
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Reviews
“… As one may expect from these performers, we get pretty much ideal interpretations. Manfred Cordes has a gift to bring together the singers who are fully at home in this repertoire, and whose voices blend perfectly. The rhythmic precision is impressive, and needed in those episodes where a lively rhythm is used to express the text. The precise intonation is another asset of Weser-Renaissance. Edoardo Bellotti is playing the copy, and partly reconstruction of an Italian organ of the 17th century.”
Johan van Veen – MusicWeb-International.com – 4 April 2022
“… Performing on a Pradella replica of a 17th-century northern Italian instrument, whose characterful tone matches Cordes’s early brass and widn for gutsy breadth, these works sing with an explicit virtuosity absent in the more sober vocal music…”
Alexandra Coghlan – Gramophone magazine – December 2021
**** Excellent Album
Jérémie Bigorie – Classica (France) – December 2021-January 2022
“… the sung and played motets and organ works show Gabrieli as a stupendous master of his time, as a sovereign at great heights… This line-up enables a number of variations to make music that is characterized by rich colors and characteristic drawings … the tempos flow to the right degree, never exaggeratedly urgent. The interaction of all forces develops dynamic effects of clearly structured power and strength, with an always differentiated basis and lucid core. In terms of intonation, not a single moment of cloudiness can be recorded, on the contrary, this dimension can be described as absolutely exhilarating, freely swinging, instrumental and vocal equally ideal. The sound is clear and well-proportioned, in a convincing balance, the vocal parts come into their own even in large ensembles… Manfred Cordes and Weser-Renaissance Bremen set a real exclamation mark with this record…”
Dr. Matthias Lange – Klassik.com – 6 October 2021
“…. Despite some caveats, there is some very fine singing heard here and some wonderfully warm and nimble instrumental work.”
Gary Higginson – MusicWeb-International.com – 14 October 2021
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