Pratum spirituale (Excerpts) Weser-Renaissance Bremen & Manfred Cordes

• Mogens Pedersøn (1583 - 1623): Pratum spirituale (Excerpts):
• 1Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 13, Nu bede vi den Helligaand03:53
• 2Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 33.1, Missa quinque vocum "Kyrie"06:06
• 3Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 8, Jesus Christ vor Frelsermand01:32
• 4Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 7, Victimae paschali laudes03:52
• 5Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 15, Ieg raaber til dig ô Herre Christ05:07
• 6Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 35, Laudate Dominum03:07
• 7Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 10, Allen til dig Herr' Jesu Christ04:50
• 8Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 33.3, Missa quinque vocum "Credo"02:56
• 9Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. No. 9, Min Siel nu loffue herren04:54
• 10Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 33, Ad te levavi oculos meos03:50
• 11Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 25, Aff dybsens nød raaber ieg til dig05:59
• 12Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 33.4, Missa quinque vocum "Sanctus"01:34
• 13Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 23, Loffuer Gud i fromme Christne03:13
• 14Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 34, Deus misereatur nostri02:28
• 15Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 28, Beholt oss Herre ved dit ord04:28
• 16Pedersøn: Pratum spirituale (Excerpts): No. 30, Forlæ oss med fred naadelig02:28
• Total Runtime01:00:17

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Mogens Pedersøn was a pupil of Melchior Borchgrevinck, later royal kapellmeister, and in 1619 he became royal vice kapellmeister. His major work, Pratum spirituale, was published in Copenhagen in 1620, containing 21 five-part hymns and a mass, three motets, and a number of responsories. The works directly reflect the church-musical requirements of the time, which made available in print some kind of offerings for ultimately all situations of Lutheran culture. In addition to the hymns that were part of the core liturgical program for the three feasts (Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost), there are Danish hymns, ten psalm hymns, and nine "free" hymns, partly from the distinctly Danish hymn tradition, partly from Luther's closest repertoire. The stylistic world that Pedersøn reveals in Pratum spirituale is unquestionably only a very narrow segment of what this internationally experienced musician mastered: schooled between organ playing, Italian madrigal, Venetian double choir and English "consort music".

Weser-Renaissance Bremen
Manfred Cordes, direction

Weser Renaissance Bremen
is one of the internationally renowned ensembles for the music of the 16th and 17th centuries, the focus of the work is the repertoire between Josquin Desprez and Dieterich Buxtehude.

With new discoveries of musical treasures from the Renaissance and early Baroque, the ensemble is a welcome guest at festivals for early music and has presented an impressive number of CD recordings that have been enthusiastically received by the experts.

The composition of the ensemble is very variable and is solely geared towards the optimal presentation of the respective repertoire. In addition to internationally sought-after vocal soloists, highly specialized instrumentalists are engaged for the original instruments of the respective epoch. The aim is the lively and at the same time musically flawless reproduction of works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. With the Hanseatic city of Bremen as a "home base", work on and with historical organ instruments from Northern Europe has recently been a further focus.

In the 25th year of its existence, WESER-RENAISSANCE can look back on a proud number of selected concert and CD programmes, international invitations and prominent appearances.

The Orlando e.V. association organizes an annual concert series in Bremen with the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance on changing themes.

Manfred Cordes
Specialist in the music of the 16th and 17th centuries, sees himself as a mediator between musicology and musical practice. He first studied school and church music in Hanover and Berlin, later classical philology (Latin) and singing pedagogy, followed by a guest lecturer in music theory in Groningen (NL). In Bremen since 1985, Cordes took over the vocal ensemble of the Forum Alte Musik and began extensive concert activities with it. The WESER-RENAISSANCE BREMEN ensemble was founded in 1993 by further specializing in the repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries and by using historical instruments.

In 1986 Manfred Cordes was involved in founding the Academy for Early Music in Bremen. He received his doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on the connection between key and affect in music of the Renaissance and in 1994 he was appointed professor of music theory at the Bremen University of the Arts. From 1996 to 2005 he headed the music department as dean and from 2007 to 2012 he was rector of the university. He is a member of the management of the Arp Schnitger Institute for Organ and Organ Building as well as the founder and artistic director of the European Hanse Ensemble, which is particularly dedicated to promoting young musicians.

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