Andre Campra and Nicolas Bernier are the Focus in "Venite Exultemus" on Ridercar

 

Andre Campra and Nicolas Bernier are the Focus in "Venite Exultemus" on Ridercar

The motet for solo voice and two dessus, usually two violins, and the cantata with instrumental accompaniment originated in Italy at the dawn of the 17th century. The genre was introduced to France by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and by travelling Italian musicians and rapidly became one of the key showpieces of Italian taste and style. 

The genre was deployed superbly in the early 18th century by two magnificent composers who were practically contemporaries: Andre Campra and Nicolas Bernier. 

Campra's natural attraction to Italian music is easily explained, as he was the son of an Italian doctor living in Aix-en-Provence and was also a pupil of the great Poitevin in the same city. Bernier, if we are to believe certain sources, was a pupil in Rome of the Venetian Antonio Caldara, one of the most important composers of his time.

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Vox Luminis Releases Heinrich Schütz' Christmas Story / Weihnachtshistorie on Ridercar

Vox Luminis Releases Heinrich Schütz' Christmas Story / Weihnachtshistorie on Ridercar

Editor's Note: Description below is of the label.

Heinrich Schütz continued to set himself challenges throughout his long career. Of all the genres of sacred music that he undertook, the oratorio offers us his most contrasting ideas. His "Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi" (1664) is in many respects the model for the genre that would later be employed by the musicians of Johann Sebastian Bach's generation; the score that Vox Luminis use for this recording has been reconstructed from manuscript sources in the Düben Collection in Uppsala. 

The album is completed with a number of particularly festive motets for the Christmas period by Heinrich Schütz and his illustrious contemporary Andreas Hammerschmidt.

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