Felix Austriae Domus

Felix Austriae Domus
Music in the 16th century Hapsburg Empires
Duodena Cantitans / Capella Rudolphina - Petr Danek
Supraphon 3326-2 231

Contents:

    Jacobus Handl-Gallus: Missa quinque vocum super Adesto dolori meo
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Sanctus. Benedictus
  5. Angus Dei
  6. Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Adesto dolori meo
  7. Matheo Flecha jun.: Di di in vo cangiando
  8. Alessandro Orologio: Ahimé partito e'l mio bel
  9. Alessandro Orologio: Tutta vezzosa e bella
  10. Alessandro Orologio: O fortunata milla
  11. Pietro Paolo Melli: Capriccio detto il gran Matias
  12. Adrian Willaert: Haud aliter pugnans
  13. Nicholas Gombert: Felix Austriae Domus
  14. Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum
  15. Jacobus Handl-Gallus: Resonet in laudibus
  16. Matheo Flecha sen.: El fuego
  17. Anonym: Das Klaglied von dem volzognen Urthel und Sententz wider die Rebellen ihro Kays. Mtt. Ferdinand II.
  18. Giovanni Gastoldi / Jan Sixt de Lerchenfels: Victoriosi duces, concelebrante luces

Performers: Duodena Cantitans [Rüzena Hejná (solo Nr. 9), Sárka Klementová, Pavla Svestková (solo Nr. 9), Leona Pelesková, Marketa Curkrová (soprano); Dagmar Stefancová, Iva Danková, Hana Svatlosová (alto); Vladimir Scigel, Vlatislav Matousek (solo Nr. 17), Zdenek Kazda (solo Nr. 8), Matej Docekal (tenor); Alexandr Krestlovský, Lubos Vanícek, Libor Zajícek, Ivan Klimes (bass)], Capella Rudolphina [Premysl Vacek (theorbo; solo Nr. 11); Petr Wagner (bass viola da gamba); Marek Spelina, Jan Kvapil, Alice Nelis (recorder); Pavel Polásek (soprano shawm); Ladislav Svestka (alto cornet); Josef Simek (alto trombone); Pavel Neckár (tenor trombone); Bohuslav Rattay (tenor trombone); Alexandr Krestlovský (percussion instruments); Roman Dykast (fiddle Ochlebky); Vlatislav Matousek (bagpipe Moldánky)].

Playing time: 66:36

Recording date: January 1997

This recording attempts to highlight the cultural flowering in the Hapsburg domains in the period between the accession of Ferdinand I to the Hapsburg and Bohemian throne in 1526 to the repression of the Bohemian Estates following the Battle of White Mountain in 1621. Track 18 has texts in Latin, Czech, German, and Italian.

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Christopher Schifani