Composer: Wolfgang Rihm, Giaches de Wert
Orchestra: Cappella Amsterdam
Conductor: Daniel Reuss
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Release: 2021
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Rihm: Sieben Passions-Texte
01. No. 1, Tristis est anima mea
02. Wert: Vox in Rama
Rihm: Sieben Passions-Texte
03. No. 2, Ecce vidimus
04. No. 3, Velum templi scissum est
05. Wert: Amen, amen dico vobis
Rihm: Sieben Passions-Texte
06. No. 4, Tenebrae factae sunt
07. No. 5, Caligaverunt oculi mei
08. Wert: Peccavi super numerum
Rihm: Sieben Passions-Texte
09. No. 6, Recessit pastor noster
10. Wert: Adesto dolori meo
Rihm: Sieben Passions-Texte
11. No. 7, Aestimatus sum
12. Wert: Quiescat vox tua
Cappella Amsterdam and its artistic leader Daniel Reuss make their PENTATONE debut with In Umbra Mortis. The album brings together Wolfgang Rihm’s contemporary Sieben Passions-Stücke and Passion-related motets by the Flemish 16th-century polyphonist Giaches de Wert, revealing unexpected kinship between two composers four centuries apart. By entwining the old and new, the listener is invited on a chromatic journey of astonishing beauty. Since its foundation in 1970, Cappella Amsterdam has shown an exceptional mastery of contemporary and early vocal music, with acclaimed excurses to Romantic repertoire as well. Daniel Reuss has been Artistic Leader of Cappella Amsterdam for over three decades now, and has worked with several renowned choirs and ensembles.