Adriano 4 Dionysos Now

• Adriaen Willaert (1490 - 1562): Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem:
• 1 Willaert: Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem 49:29
• Ecce lignum crucis - Crux fidelis:
• 2 Willaert: Ecce lignum crucis - Crux fidelis 05:38
• Tristis est anima mea:
• 3 Willaert: Tristis est anima mea 03:25
• Infelix ego:
• 4 Willaert: Infelix ego 06:44
• Flete oculi:
• 5 Willaert: Flete oculi 04:11
• Dulces exuviae:
• 6 Willaert: Dulces exuviae 03:49
• Da pacem Domine:
• 7 Willaert: Da pacem Domine 02:23
• Total Runtime 01:15:39

Info for Adriano 4

"Es ist mir eine große Freude und Ehre, Sie zu einer Reise in das Leben und Werk von Adriaen Willaert (1490-1562), dem großen Meister der flämischen Polyphonie aus Rumbeke bei Roeselare, einzuladen.

Willaert war 35 Jahre lang bis zu seinem Tod Maestro di cappella der Basilika San Marco in Venedig und galt als der beste Komponist und Pädagoge seiner Zeit. Seine Musik verbreitete sich schnell über Italien hinaus - auch dank der Fortschritte in der Drucktechnik - und wurde an vielen der größten Höfe und Kathedralen Europas und sogar im Vatikan aufgeführt. Zur gleichen Zeit kamen zahlreiche Komponisten aus Ländern wie Flandern, Frankreich und Deutschland in die entgegengesetzte Richtung nach Italien, um bei "Maestro Adriano" in "La Serenissima" zu studieren oder sich mit seinen neuen Kompositionstechniken vertraut zu machen.

Es ist mehr als 500 Jahre her, dass Willaerts Musik jeden Tag irgendwo in Europa in einer Kirche oder Kapelle zu hören war. Jahrhunderte lang war es (zu) still um die wunderschön verzierten Chorbücher, in denen seine Messen und Motetten einen herausragenden Platz einnehmen, und die gedruckten Stimmbücher, die von den schönsten Madrigalen und Chansons der damaligen Zeit zeugen.

Mit meinem neuen Ensemble Dionysos Now! möchte ich die Musik von Adriaen Willaert buchstäblich aus den Bibliotheken Europas herausholen und sie wieder zum Klingen bringen.

Mit Dionysos Now! möchte ich zeigen, dass die Vokalpolyphonie der Renaissance eine wunderbar fesselnde Musik ist, die es verdient, von einem größeren Publikum gehört zu werden. Wir wollen Kathedralen aus Klängen bauen und die Musik so erlebbar machen, als würde man mit einer Drohne weit über diese Kathedralen fliegen. Die einzelnen Bausteine sind alle da, aber sie scheinen mit dem Ganzen zu verschmelzen, zur Gestalt: Die strahlende Musik erzeugt viel mehr überschäumende Energie als die Summe ihrer Töne, und der ansteckende Fluss der Musik wird gesucht und eingefangen, wie ein Surfer, der die perfekte Welle gefunden zu haben scheint und seine Chance ergreift, sie zu reiten, bevor sie wieder verebbt...

Es ist mir ein großes Vergnügen, Musik aus der Renaissance mit zeitgenössischer Kunst zu kombinieren, wie bei den Werken von Honoré d'O für das erste Album und von dem berühmten belgischen Maler Leon Spilliaert für das zweite Album.

Alte Musik, aber zeitgenössische Aufführungen.

Dionysos Now
Tore Tom Denys, Tenor

Dionysos Now
I would like to show you that vocal polyphony of the Renaissance is very captivating music, and deserves to be heard by a wider audience.

Dionysos Now! wants to create cathedrals from sounds, in which you perceive the music as if you were flattering the cathedrals with a drone from far above. The brick stones are overall but they seem to merge into the whole, into the 'gestalt', where the radiant music generates much more effervescent energy than the sum of the tones, the contagious flow in the music is sought and captured, like a surfer who seems to have found the perfect wave and seizes his chance to float on it before it goes away again.

With the wise words of Winston Churchill in mind "Never waste a good crisis", I started studying the scores of my fellow townsman Adriaen Willaert during the lockdown and so I rediscovered the wonderful music of this Venetian chapel master over the past few months. A new initiative was born: Dionysos Now! Vienna is a brand new project that aims to spread the magnificent heritage of Adriaen Willaert. With Dionysos Now!, I would like to demonstrate that Renaissance vocal polyphony is very captivating music that deserves to be appreciated by a wider audience.

Tore Tom Denys, founder Dionysos Now! Vienna

Anyone who reads the name Dionysos Now! correctly will discover the reference to Denys: Tore Tom Denys is the founder and artistic director of the ensemble.

Dionysos Now! is also in Greek mythology the growth force of the earth and human civilisation, zeal and enthusiasm, god of wine (construction) and fruit growing, poetry, theatre and music. As god of peace he brings people together and as victor over death he is god of the underworld. In various ways he had an important influence on the life, thought and work of the Greeks and Romans.

An ideal figurehead, therefore, from a great recognition for Willaert's work, to want to share this oeuvre with a large audience in the most diverse forms with great enthusiasm. It is Tore Tom Denys' ambition to map out the work of his "fellow townsman" by means of concerts and original CD recordings and to give him the fame he deserves.

The ensemble works and rehearses from Vienna but has an international base and unites top soloists in polyphony. Tore Tom Denys has his own clear vision on how he wants to perform Willaert's oeuvre with care for the original manuscripts and scores.

Ensemble Dionysos Now! is a flexible project in which the basis consists of 6 voices which, depending on the programme, can be extended to polyphonic or supplemented with an instrumental ensemble. To this end, a permanent collaboration will be set up with various internationally renowned ensembles.

Tore Tom Denys
has worked and lived in Vienna for over 20 years but was born and raised in Roeselare.

Tenor Tore Tom Denys joined the vocal core of the Capilla Flamenca in 2006. He studied trumpet at the Conservatory of Antwerp and could be heard worldwide as a concert and solo trumpet player. From 1994 to 1998, as a member of the 'World Youth Choir', he visited all continents, where his interest in early music and the art of singing grew steadily and he changed the trumpet for singing. He was a member of the vocal ensemble Currende with whom he recorded several CD's and was co-founder of the Goeyvaerts Consort. etc...

In 1998 Tore Tom Denys moved to Vienna and studied singing at the "Konservatorium der Stadt Wien". He was admitted to the "Arnold Schönberg Chor" (conducted by Erwin Ortner) and went on various tours as a soloist with this choir. Since 1999 he has been a member of the choir of the Vienna State Opera and has performed with it at the "Salzburger Festspiele" in productions by L. Maazel, R. Muti, Gjergiev W. Sawallisch. Besides his performances at various festivals in Austria and abroad, he is a permanent soloist with the ensembles "Nova", "Armonico Tributo Austria", "Cinquecento" and "Clemencic Consort". He is also founder and singer of the ensemble "Vivante", an ensemble for early music, which mainly performs music from the Italian Early Baroque and Ensemble Dionysos Now!, with a focus on polyphony. He is also a much sought-after soloist by Philippe Herreweghe with Collegium Vocale Gent for the specific polyphony music.

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