St Salvator’s Chapel Choir, Ars Eloquentiae, Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Tom Wilkinson - Bach And The Stile Antico (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Credo in unum Deum BWV 1081
02. Credo in unum Deum No 5 of Acroama Missale
03. Magnificat in C Major: Suscepit Israel BWV1082
04. Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671
05. Missa Sine Nomine: Kyrie
06. Missa Sine Nomine: Gloria
07. Aus tiefer Not BWV686
08. Symbolum Nicenum BWV 232: Credo in unum Deum
09. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Patrem Omnipotentem
10. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et in unum Dominum
11. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et incarnatus est
12. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Crucifixus
13. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et resurrexit
14. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et in Spiritum Sanctum
15. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Confiteor
16. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Et expecto


The flagship choir of the University of St Andrews is joined by dynamic young period instrument group Ars Eloquentiae and the members of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet in an exploration of J.S. Bach’s relationship with the compositional style associated with renaissance polyphony.

The disc also investigates the influences which Bach seems to have absorbed when planning and composing his great Mass in B minor. Two Credo pieces by Bassani (world premiere recording) and Caldara are included, each arranged in different ways by Bach, possibly in preparation for the opening movement of his own Credo. Palestrina’s ‘Missa Sine Nomine’ was likewise known to Bach who copied, and probably performed, it in the 1740s.

The CD culminates in the great ‘Symbolum Nicenum’ from the Mass in B minor, and also includes organ works by Bach in the stile antico, performed by Tom Wilkinson on the Ahrend organ at the University of Edinburgh.

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