Petitiones Cordis Schola Stralsundensis & Maurice van Lieshout

• 1 In Domino 03:54
• 2 O Virgo prudentissima 04:49
• 3 Vulnerasti cor meum 03:12
• 4 Nuptiae factae sunt 02:04
• 5 O pulcherrima inter mulieres 05:08
• 6 Alleluia, mane nobiscum Domine 03:56
• 7 Christ lag in Todesbanden 03:31
• 8 Ich will des Herren Zorn tragen 04:25
• 9 Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ 08:15
• 10 Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum 07:30
• 11 Christus filius Dei 14:03
• Total Runtime 01:00:47

Info for Petitiones Cordis

The manuscript Stralsund MS 229, which dates from 1585, is a collection of sacred motets held in the Stadtarchiv of Stralsund, a German Hanseatic town on the Baltic. There were probably six part-books originally, but only four have survived. The manuscript contains 105 works, composed mainly for five or six voices. It spans several generations of composers, from the late fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth century; it therefore includes works composed before and after the Reformation. The variety of styles is impressive, ranging from early Franco-Flemish polyphony to Italian madrigals and works from central Germany.

In order to bring back to life the many famous or less well-known gems of the manuscript, the founder of Schola Stralsundensis, Antonie Schlegel, and its musical director, Maurice van Lieshout, have tirelessly researched and compared sixteenth-century manuscript and printed scores all over Europe.

The programme recorded here contains a wide selection of works from the manuscript. The title Petitiones cordis comes from Eucharius Hoffmann’s motet setting of Psalm 37: In Domino spera et fac bonum, delectare in Domino, et dabit tibi petitiones cordis tui (Put thou thy trust in the Lord, and be doing good. Delight thou in the Lord: and he shall give thee thy heart’s desire). The repertoire has been recorded at its historical place, the church of Saint-Nicolas in Stralsund, where Hoffmann was Kantor.

Schola Stralsundensis:
Simon Borutzki, bass
Christoph Dittmar, altus
Martin Erhardt, recorder and portative organ
Elizabeth Farrell, flute
Ute Faust, viola da gamba
Holger Faust-Peters, viola da gamba
Dietrich Haböck, viola da gamba
Daja Leevke Hinrichs, flute
Katharina Holzhey, viola da gamba
Miyoko Ito, viola da gamba
Anna Kellnhofer, soprano
Stefanie Lüdecke, recorder
Milo Machover, tenor and flute
Silvia Müller, recorder
Hugo Pieri, bariton
Antonie Schlegel, recorder and bass dulcian
Ingo Voelkner, recorder
Dorothea Wagner, soprano
Maurice van Lieshout, recorder and direction

Schola Stralsundensis
a group of vocal and instrumental soloists, was founded in 2007, as part of the project “Die Stralsunder Motetten-handschrift von 1585 - von der Komplettierung zur musikalischen Aufführung” (The Stralsund Motet Manuscript from 1585 – from its reconstruction to its musical performance), started in 2006 by Antonie Schlegel. Among the many famous and lesser-known composers present in the manuscript, the name of Eucharius Hoffmann holds a special place, for he is one of two composers who appears to have been active in Stralsund at the time that the manuscript was compiled. Indeed, in his XXIIII Cantiones, published in 1577, he is presented as Scholae Stralsundensis Cantore ('Cantor of the [music] school of Stralsund'). It appeared natural to the newly founded ensemble to take on this historical title as their name. These young musicians stem from several countries across the world and have been brought together by a common interest in the traditions, notation and performance practise of early western music. Thus, the ensemble uses exclusively copies of period instruments, performs around a single choir-book or from individual part-books and bases its interpretations on the historical use of solmization techniques.

Maurice van Lieshout
studied recorder and piano at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague and at the Scuola Civica in Milan. Since 2007, he has been active as Professor at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken, as well as teaching regularly in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. In his teachings, emphasis is made upon the various musical styles from the 9th to the 16th centuries, using music in original notation and period performance practice sources. In 1993, he founded the ensemble Fala Música specialized in late medieval music. He has given concerts at Festivals in Bruges (2000 and 2002), Antwerp (2000 and 2003), Utrecht, Copenhagen and Paris. He has given masterclasses at the Hochschulen für Musik in Bremen, Berlin, Münster and Weimar, in Belgium at the Lemmensinstitut in Leuven, at MUSICA BELGIEN, in Bruges at the Festival Musica Antiqua and at the Conservatorium in Maastricht.

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