Cappella Splendor Solis
| Cappella Splendor Solis | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Vienna |
| Genre (s) | Early music, mannerism |
| founding | 2014 |
| Current occupation | |
Management, moderation & keyboard instruments |
Josef pride |
soprano |
Kanako Hayashi |
Countertenor / Altus |
Stefan Piewald |
Bass baritone |
Florian M. Wolf |
| former members | |
tenor |
Yo Sato (until 2015) |
Cappella Splendor Solis is an early music ensemble with a focus on the Mannerist era from Vienna , which is vocal with soprano, alto and baritone and instrumentally with a claviorganum and has existed since 2014 under the direction of Josef Stolz.
Name and concert style
The very name of the ensemble - borrowed from the alchemical manuscript Splendor Solis - refers to a world of secrets that is hidden behind the music being performed. Therefore, the concerts of the Cappella Splendor Solis are structured according to the principle that the music throws a ray of light onto the world behind the composition. For each thematic block, the audience is introduced to hidden messages in the melody, social entanglements of the composers or librettists, the everyday life of the contemporary audience, etc. via moderation.
The "brilliant and inspired staging" of the concert programs "not only provides the best, high-class entertainment, but also gives the (concert) visitors a lot of musical knowledge and numerous new discoveries in an entertaining way and without annoying index fingers".
Appearances
In 2016, Cappella Splendor Solis performed at the Stockerau Festival , the Claviersalon & friends summer festival in Bürgstadt and at Burg Gars, as well as with its own concert cycle at Haus Wittgenstein . Further concerts took place in the Church of St. Salvator and in cooperation with the Austrian Union of Soroptimist Clubs. In 2017 the ensemble moved its cycle to Sankt Salvator, where the first sound and video recordings were made in 2015 and 2016.
specialization
The ensemble is dedicated to the rediscovery of music between 1550 and 1650. In addition to well-known and often mentioned names such as Luca Marenzio , Claudio Monteverdi , Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina or Orazio Vecchi , it also likes to present lesser-known or rarely performed composers with their now almost forgotten works took center stage and performed for example with the first performance of the complete cycle "Ignotae Deae" Op. 3 by Barbara Strozzi , the Musical Concerto by Bartholomeo Spighi da Prato and compositions by Pope Leo X. are already pioneering work for which textual versions that have been corrupted or have not been handed down are reconstructed using historically plausible texts.
Today it is the only ensemble in the world to play in the mean- tone 2/7 tuning by Gioseffo Zarlino, accompanied by a claviorganum, with a virginal attachment based on the oldest surviving virginal in Germany (1588).
In keeping with authentic performance practice, the singers use improvised diminutions during the performances , reconstruct early semi-staged forms of music theater and thus transform a church space into an opera stage.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heinz Linduschka: Adventure with the "unknown goddess" . In: main-echo.de . August 1, 2017 ( main-echo.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
- ^ Homepage of the municipality of Stockerau. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Heinz Linduschka: Report Main-Echo from 25.07.2016. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Lower Austrian News 42/2016: Early music thrilled the audience .
- ↑ Benefit concert with early baroque vocal music. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ^ Philippe de Monte: Per divina belezza. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ^ Palestrina: Missa Gabriel Archangelus, Gloria (Pars I). Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ^ Cappella Splendor Solis: Excerpts from the work Musical Concerto. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Heinz Linduschka: Fireworks sacred music from Renaissance to Baroque . In: main-echo.de . August 3, 2015 ( main-echo.de [accessed August 10, 2017]).