Dunstaple / Tiburtina Ensemble / Becu- Paradisi Porte (CD)
Around 1490, the painter Hans Memling created his "Concert of Angels". It consists of three paintings for the outside of an altar and shows God the Father surrounded by angels singing and playing instruments. What might the music have sounded like that inspired Memling to this painting? Very precisely, the painter depicted the instruments of his time, grouped into the "alta" and "bassa capella" typical of the period - the loud and the quiet instruments. Together with the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where Memling's paintings hang today, Wim Beku initiated an interdisciplinary project in which the depicted instruments were recreated in detail by specialists in instrument making and research was carried out to find thematically appropriate music. The central theme of the original altar, of which only the Angel Concerto remains, was the Assumption of Mary, and so "Paradisi porte" - the door to paradise - also determines the music of this release. Gregorian music from liturgical books and polyphonic compositions from the time around 1500 in Bruges are heard, truly heavenly music played by Wim Becus "Otremontano Antwerpen" together with the singers of the "Tiburtina Ensemble".
Tracklist:
- Ave Maria Gratia Plena (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Fuga Duorum Temporum (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Proles De Caelo (Arr. C. Vincens For Chamber Ensemble)
- In Excelso Throno (Arr. For Voice & Psaltery)
- Paradisi Porte (Arr. A. Lawrence-King For Harp)
- Alma Cohors Domini (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Tollite Portas
- Christe Sanctorum - Tibi Christe (Arr. For Voice & Chamber Ensemble)
- Popule Meus
- Danse De Cleves (Arr. A. Lawrence-King For Chamber Ensemble)
- Ad Cenam Agni Providi (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Den Haghel Ende Die Calde Snee (Arr. For Chamber Ensemble)
- Ave Mundi Spes Maria (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Virgo Rosa (Arr. For Chamber Ensemble)
- Paradisi Porte (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Salve Regina (Arr. A. Bregman For Chamber Ensemble)
- Magnificat Secundi Toni (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
Around 1490, the painter Hans Memling created his "Concert of Angels". It consists of three paintings for the outside of an altar and shows God the Father surrounded by angels singing and playing instruments. What might the music have sounded like that inspired Memling to this painting? Very precisely, the painter depicted the instruments of his time, grouped into the "alta" and "bassa capella" typical of the period - the loud and the quiet instruments. Together with the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where Memling's paintings hang today, Wim Beku initiated an interdisciplinary project in which the depicted instruments were recreated in detail by specialists in instrument making and research was carried out to find thematically appropriate music. The central theme of the original altar, of which only the Angel Concerto remains, was the Assumption of Mary, and so "Paradisi porte" - the door to paradise - also determines the music of this release. Gregorian music from liturgical books and polyphonic compositions from the time around 1500 in Bruges are heard, truly heavenly music played by Wim Becus "Otremontano Antwerpen" together with the singers of the "Tiburtina Ensemble".
Tracklist:
- Ave Maria Gratia Plena (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Fuga Duorum Temporum (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Proles De Caelo (Arr. C. Vincens For Chamber Ensemble)
- In Excelso Throno (Arr. For Voice & Psaltery)
- Paradisi Porte (Arr. A. Lawrence-King For Harp)
- Alma Cohors Domini (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Tollite Portas
- Christe Sanctorum - Tibi Christe (Arr. For Voice & Chamber Ensemble)
- Popule Meus
- Danse De Cleves (Arr. A. Lawrence-King For Chamber Ensemble)
- Ad Cenam Agni Providi (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Den Haghel Ende Die Calde Snee (Arr. For Chamber Ensemble)
- Ave Mundi Spes Maria (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Virgo Rosa (Arr. For Chamber Ensemble)
- Paradisi Porte (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)
- Salve Regina (Arr. A. Bregman For Chamber Ensemble)
- Magnificat Secundi Toni (Arr. For Choir & Chamber Ensemble)