Da Pacem Ricercar Consort & Philippe Pierlot

• Johann Hermann Schein (1586 - 1630): Intrada à 5:
• 1 Schein: Intrada à 5 01:02
• Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): Da pacem, Domine, SWV 465:
• 2 Schütz: Da pacem, Domine, SWV 465 05:50
• Symphoniæ Sacræ II, Op. 10, SWV 341-367:
• 3 Schütz: Symphoniæ Sacræ II, Op. 10, SWV 341-367: Was betrübst du dich, SWV 353 05:56
• Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV 369-397:
• 4 Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV 369-397: Die mit Tränen säen, SWV 378 03:14
• Herr, nun lässest Du Deinen Diener, SWV 352a:
• 5 Schütz: Herr, nun lässest Du Deinen Diener, SWV 352a 04:08
• Cantiones sacræ, Op. 4, SWV 53-93:
• 6 Schütz: Cantiones sacræ, Op. 4, SWV 53-93: No. 6, Psalm Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, SWV 85 02:51
• Johann Hermann Schein: Corollarium. Canzon à 5:
• 7 Schein: Corollarium. Canzon à 5 04:09
• Heinrich Schütz: Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, SWV 447:
• 8 Schütz: Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, SWV 447 04:32
• Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV 369-397:
• 9 Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV 369-397: So fahr ich hin, SWV 379 03:06
• No. 133, Psalm Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ists, SWV 48:
• 10 Schütz: No. 133, Psalm Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ists, SWV 48 07:18
• Teutoniam dudum belli, SWV 338:
• 11 Schütz: Teutoniam dudum belli, SWV 338 05:29
• Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV 369-397:
• 12 Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV 369-397: Verley uns Frieden genädiglich, SWV 372 02:18
• No. 8, Psalm, Herr unser Herrscher, SWV 449:
• 13 Schütz: No. 8, Psalm, Herr unser Herrscher, SWV 449 07:07
• Total Runtime 57:00

Info for Da Pacem

Da pacem gathers music by Heinrich Schütz that expressed the prayers of his listeners during the troubling times of the Thirty Years' War, a period when the people of Central Europe "in such great fear and danger of war, sang with each other such useful and comforting songs". Whether in elaborate concertos or simple motets, his music conveyed people's hopes for a fair and lasting peace that can still resonate in our ears today.

Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot, direction

Philippe Pierlot
was born in Liège. After teaching himself the guitar and the lute, he turned to the viola da gamba, which he studied with Wieland Kuijken. He is active in the fields of chamber music, oratorio, and opera, and divides his activities between viola da gamba and conducting. He has edited and revived a number of operas, including Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse (given at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Lincoln Center in New York, the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, the Melbourne Festival and La Fenice in Venice, among other venues) and the Sémélé of Marin Marais, as well as Bach’s St Mark Passion. With his ensemble Ricercar Consort he records for the French label Mirare. His most recent CDs have been devoted to Purcell’s Fantazias for viols, Bach cantatas, and music for viol by Couperin. Philippe Pierlot is a professor at the Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.

Ricercar Consort
In 1985 the Ricercar Consort made its first concert tour with Bach’s Musical Offering. The ensemble soon acquired an international reputation, notably in the domain of German Baroque cantatas and instrumental music. It gave many concerts with such singers as Henri Ledroit, Max van Egmond and James Bowman and recorded some fifty discs, among them the complete works of little-known composers like Nikolaus Bruhns and Matthias Weckmann. Today the ensemble is directed by Philippe Pierlot. Alongside large-scale productions such as, in recent years, operas by Provenzale (La Stellidaura), Monteverdi (Il ritorno d’Ulisse) and Telemann (Don Quichotte) and sacred works including Bach’s Passions and cantatas, Handel cantatas and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, it also performs chamber repertoire focusing essentially on music for consort of viols. In 2006 Les Folles Journées of Nantes, Lisbon and Bilbao invited the Ricercar Consort to perform Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. The ensemble then accompanied the soprano Céline Scheen to Tokyo to perform Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, and gave a Marin Marais programme at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. It returned to the same venue in 2007 to perform motets by Dumont and Charpentier with Collegium Vocale Gent. After appearing at the Brussels Bach Académie 2007 in cantatas by Bruhns, the group went on to record a second volume of early Bach cantatas. Its disc of Bach’s Magnificat and Mass in G minor, released in the autumn of 2009, won the prestigious prize of the Académie Charles Cros the following year.

The Ricercar Consort receives support from the Communauté Française de Belgique. It performs at leading festivals such as Boston, Edinburgh, Utrecht, and Tokyo and Warsaw (Handel opera arias). It recently gave the St John Passion at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris.

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